Callum Fowers
Senior Associate Corporate & Finance
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Legal 500 2024Callum Fowers has a notable focus on the incentives aspects of public M&A deals.
Part of the tax and incentives group, Callum Fowers prides himself on giving clients joined-up tax and incentives advice on their most complex matters.
Callum advises on all aspects of employee incentives and executive compensation, including in relation to private equity, investment agreements, management incentive plans and structuring. He has been named by Legal 500 as a “Rising Star” for employee share schemes.
He has a significant transactional practice, and frequently advises on the impact of transactions on employee share plans and management incentives, including in the context of public M&A and other public market transactions. Many of his clients have international operations, and Callum has a wealth of experience on cross-border employee incentives, including the successful establishment and operation of international employee share and cash plans.
Callum regularly advises both employers and individuals on matters ranging from employment tax issues to structuring, implementing and on-going running of all forms of employee cash and share incentive plans. He is an active member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group, and is currently co-secretary of its Corporate and Regulatory Committee.
Legal 500 2024Callum Fowers has a notable focus on the incentives aspects of public M&A deals.
Representative experience
Clipper Logistics PLC on its £1bn public takeover by GXO Logistics
Shaftesbury PLC on its £5bn all-share recommended merger with Capital & Counties Properties PLC
Tetra Tech, Inc. on its £636m public takeover of RPS Group plc
Infracapital on its initial investment in the battery storage and electric transportation transformation business, Zenobē Energy
PerkinElmer, Inc. on its public takeovers of Horizon Discovery Group plc, Oxford Immunotec plc and Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings plc
CPI Property Group S.A. on its €1.57bn joint public takeover with Aroundtown SA of Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited
PhonePe Private Limited, Singapore, on management incentives arrangements, including on the separation of ownership of PhonePe Private Limited, India from the Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart
Multiple UK and US private and listed companies on the offer and ongoing operation of employee cash and share incentive plans internationally
KBR, Inc. on employee incentives aspects of its c.US$400m acquisition of Frazer-Nash Consultancy Limited
The Craftory, the challenger brand investment house, in relation to tax, legal and valuation issues on its incorporation and capitalisation
Credentials
- M.Sci, University of Cambridge, 2013
- M.A. (Cantab), University of Cambridge, 2012
- Solicitor, England and Wales
- Senior Courts of England and Wales