Your Leadership. Your Stake. Your Future.
Transactions, Structuring & Tax for Executives & Business Leaders
Rewarding Leadership. Building Lasting Value.
Why Northstar
“ Leadership decisions shape both enterprise value and personal financial outcomes. Your remuneration, equity participation and international career deserve a coordinated legal and tax strategy. ”
We advise C-level executives, managing directors, founders and management teams on the decisions that matter: joining a business, negotiating incentives, investing alongside shareholders and navigating a transaction or exit.
Our Focus
Integrated legal and tax advice for the decisions that shape your career and capital.
Combining corporate, tax and transaction expertise, we connect your position as a business leader with your interests as an investor.
Compensation
Rewarding Leadership
Structure remuneration around your role, incentives and long-term objectives.
- Executive remuneration, bonuses and long-term incentive plans
- Stock options, share awards and management incentive plans
- Management companies, director fees and pension arrangements
- Tax and corporate implications of appointment and departure
Equity & Investments
Turning Leadership into Ownership
Align your economic stake with governance, control and future liquidity.
- Management equity, co-investments and investment holding structures
- Shareholder agreements, voting rights and minority protections
- Vesting, dilution, good/bad leaver provisions and exit rights
- Financing, dividends and tax treatment of investment returns
Transactions
Your Position in M&A and Private Equity
Protect your interests when ownership changes or management invests.
- Management buy-outs, buy-ins and private equity transactions
- Management package negotiation and transaction structuring
- Share disposals, roll-overs, earn-outs and reinvestment
- Exit planning, capital gains and post-transaction wealth structuring
International Mobility
A Career Across Borders
Coordinate your executive role, residence and financial interests internationally.
- Cross-border appointments, relocation and tax residence
- Salary splits, director remuneration and treaty analysis
- Social security coordination and management company implications
- Cross-border holdings, investments and estate planning
Who We Advise
- C-level executives and managing directors
- Management teams and board members
- Founder-executives
- Executives investing in their business
- Internationally mobile business leaders
Our Approach
- Integrated tax, corporate and M&A expertise
- Advice connecting career, equity and wealth
- Support in management and investor negotiations
- International perspective on mobility and investments
- Senior advisers focused on practical decisions
Representative Experience
Supporting leaders in critical decisions – selected matters illustrating our transaction and structuring experience.
- Assisting senior management with a share roll-over transaction in the sale of a UK company.
- Carve-out of the CEO within the Belgian branch of an international company active in laser measurement equipment.
- Tax advice to a Spanish company on entering into a joint venture with a Belgian partner in the context of a tax shelter programme.
News & Insights
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