London Stock Exchange CEO, Julia Hoggett’s recent suggestion that UK CEO pay should be increased to place London as the listing venue of choice, has grabbed many headlines and attracted some strong reaction. This comes hard on the FCA’s proposal to relax the Listing Rules, to simplify the process of bringing a company to market,…

May 17, 2023 Read more >

On 10 May, in its policy paper Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy, the Government has made some announcements that impact employment law. The changes are intended to create a more competitive and productive economy by reducing unnecessary and burdensome existing regulation which impedes competition or acts as a block on innovation. Significantly, the sunset…

May 17, 2023 Read more >

MM&K Private Equity & Venture Capital Compensation Survey is a Compensation Survey for the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Industry that MM&K has run for 27 years. This month we have launched the 28th round of this survey. MM&K PE / VC Compensation Survey provides participating firms with market leading, detailed information on both…

May 17, 2023 Read more >

The past 3 years has seen huge levels of economic uncertainty with the COVID pandemic, high inflation and cost of living crisis being a few of the main causes of this. Our 2022 Private Equity report has now been released, so in this article I will be taking a closer look at how staffing levels…

May 16, 2023 Read more >

We are preparing for the launch of our biennial Chair and Non-Executive Directors Survey  ‘Life in the Boardroom 2023-2024’.  As part of our preparations, we reached out to past participants for their opinions on current issues facing boardrooms. The pandemic thrust many companies into remote working, and for most companies it is here to stay,…

May 16, 2023 Read more >

The digital landscape is rapidly evolving and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has become critical in many different industries and areas. It has transformed the way things are done, enabling automation, providing data and insights which in turn helps businesses with effective decision making. In April 2023, the UK Government published an AI White…

May 15, 2023 Read more >

Most of us take communication for granted, and at our peril. History is littered with examples of how routes of communication are far more fragile than we think, with disastrous consequences. A case study of this is found in Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit. Duhigg interviewed nurses who worked in the early 2000’s…

May 15, 2023 Read more >

MM&K (the UK partner firm in the GECN group) has published its 2023 research on how the world’s largest firms use ESG (environmental, social, governance) metrics in their executive incentive plans. Download your free copy here. We researched how the world’s top listed firms used ESG metrics when incentivising their CEOs; metrics were grouped into…

April 27, 2023 Read more >

For those businesses that have been fortunate enough to pay out bonuses for the 2022 financial year, March and April will often be the months in which payments are made. However, for many of you who manage and oversee bonus plans, there will be at least one payment (if not more) that you think is…

April 27, 2023 Read more >

A report entitled “Annual Economic Survey of Employee Share Ownership in European Countries 2022” published by the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) points to a decline in employee share ownership across Europe, except in the UK. EFES produces a version of this report annually. It contains a lot of data on the pattern…

April 25, 2023 Read more >

MM&K has now released the 2022 edition of its Private Equity and Venture Capital report. In this article, we take a look at how salaries for non-investment roles have changed each year since 2019 and how this compares with inflation and average increases across the UK job market. The graph below shows the average base…

April 24, 2023 Read more >

You have probably heard of the term ‘shareholder activism’. This refers to actions taken by shareholders of a company to influence the management or direction of the company. Shareholder activism can take different forms and has advantages and disadvantages. We will look at some of these in this article. Shareholders may engage directly with the…

April 21, 2023 Read more >