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ESOP Structuring and Compliance

Pool, trust, grants, and tax that employees can explain at dinner.

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3-5 days 72-hour express on request 100% client satisfaction commitment One named advisor start to close
What it is

Plain language, then the law.

Pool, trust, grants and tax that employees can explain at dinner, passed in a single board sitting.

Scale-phase work is what turns a growing company into a fundable, sellable, or borrow-worthy one — the model is a letter to a sceptical partner, not a pitch. A valuation nobody can defend is a number, not an opinion — we build ours to survive the question that comes right after it.

The output is not a PDF dump. It is a file a future investor, banker, or officer can reopen without you in the room.

ESOP Structuring and Compliance, Finchase Capital
What you walk away withA board-approved ESOP scheme.Tax memo secured.Filed, audited, funded without leaving the building.
When to call usYou are hiring seniors before Series A.Pool sized to the hiring plan.
Our process
  1. 01

    Size

    Pool sized to the hiring plan through the next round; dilution modelled before promises.

  2. 02

    Draft

    Scheme with cliff, vesting and exercise windows in employee English.

  3. 03

    Clear

    Valuation report and perquisite-tax memo secured.

  4. 04

    Approve

    Board and shareholder approvals passed in one sitting.

  5. 05

    Grant

    Grant letters issued; vesting tracker handed to HR.

Why it matters

Priced right

Valuations with bridged assumptions, no spreadsheet folklore.

Closed fast

Data rooms and term mechanics run to a calendar, not to luck.

Defensible

Every claim in the deck traces back to a working paper.

Who needs this
Startup ?
  • First priced round
  • First real investor deck
SME ?
  • Working capital / bank finance
  • Cap table cleanup before a raise
Enterprise ?
  • Buy-side or sell-side diligence
  • Multi-lender debt syndication
Deliverables

What's inside

01

Analysis

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Valuation, model, or diligence findings

02

Structuring

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Cap table, deal terms, or debt structure

03

Materials

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Investor-ready deck, memo, or data room

04

Handover

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Founder briefing note + next-step calendar

FAQ
First outputs in 3-5 days once inputs are complete, with a 72-hour express track on request.
Fixed for defined filings; retainers for lifecycle. Quotes in writing before work starts.
Yes. Portals are national. On-site stock or branch work is scheduled explicitly.
A named senior advisor from our 20-professional bench. You will not meet someone new every filing.
Sized to your hiring plan through the next round — typically 10-15% pre-Series A. We model dilution before you promise.
No — perquisite tax hits at exercise, on the spread. We memo the timing so nobody learns this from a demand notice.

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One 30-minute call covers audit, tax, debt and capital — because one team does all four.

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