A Q&A guide to employee share plans in Luxembourg.

The Q&A gives a high-level overview of the key practical issues, including whether share plans are common and can be offered by foreign parent companies, the structure and rules relating to the different types of share option plan, share purchase plan and phantom share plan, taxation, corporate governance guidelines, consultation duties, exchange control regulations, taxation of internationally mobile employees, prospectus requirements, necessary regulatory consents and filings, formalities, and developments and reform.