Employment Share Option Plan (ESOP) in China

Live Lounge Podcast Series by BritCham Shanghai

Hosted by Tim Yu, Partner of Mazars and Chair of BritCham Shanghai’s Financial Service Committee, this podcast interviews Eason Geng, Partner at Dentons Shanghai, Jasmine Chen, Legal Director China at Weir Group, and Miranda Ye, Associate Director at PwC.
ESOP as Employee Stock Ownership Plan is utilized by many successful companies across the world. The many successes of ESOP companies may largely be attributed to the enhancement of employee productivity. These productivity effects are becoming increasingly noticed across the world.
This episode gives us a fundamental framework for doing Employment Share Option Plan (ESOP) in China. Topics include:

• how do companies do ESOP
• what are the underlining issues from legal & tax perspectives
• advice for implementation