Equity Ownership Advisory · MENA

Give your team a real stake in what you're building.

SHRK designs and implements Employee Stock Ownership Plans built for MENA legal and market realities — not a template adapted from a US or UK cap table — aligning your people with your company's upside, structured properly from cap table to payout.

Why founders come to us

Retention risk from underpaid key hires
No clear equity strategy before their next raise
Cap table complexity nobody has time to untangle
Wanting ownership culture, not just salaries
Built for MENA legal & market realities
3–6 week engagements, start to rollout
Legal-ready documentation, not just a slide deck
Why this matters

Equity, done badly, costs you your best people.

Most companies bolt on equity compensation late, inconsistently, or without a plan for dilution, vesting, or exit. SHRK builds the structure first — so ownership becomes a real retention and performance lever, not a legal afterthought.

Our Services

Everything you need to launch and run an ESOP

Three focused workstreams — design, documentation, and rollout — delivered as one engagement, not a checklist you're left to run yourself.

01

Plan design

Pool sizing, vesting schedules, and eligibility rules built around your stage, runway, and hiring plan — not a generic template.

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02

Cap table & compliance

Clean modeling of dilution scenarios and documentation that holds up through your next funding round or exit.

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03

Communication & rollout

Plain-language materials so your team actually understands what they're getting — and why it matters.

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Engagement

How an engagement runs

A focused, structured process — typically 3 to 6 weeks from kickoff to a plan your team can act on.

1

Assessment

We review your cap table, hiring plan, and goals to identify where equity can do the most work.

2

Plan design

We model pool size, vesting, and grant guidelines tailored to your stage and future raises.

3

Documentation

We prepare the legal and administrative framework needed to implement the plan cleanly.

4

Rollout support

We help you communicate the plan to your team so it lands as the benefit it's meant to be.

"The best equity plans are the ones your team understands well enough to actually value."

— SHRK Advisory Principle
Common questions

Frequently asked

What stage of company do you work with?

Primarily early- to growth-stage startups and SMEs setting up an equity plan for the first time, or restructuring one that's grown unwieldy.

Do you handle the legal documentation too?

We design the plan and coordinate closely with your legal counsel on documentation — ensuring the structure and the paperwork match.

How long does an engagement take?

Most plans go from assessment to rollout-ready in 3 to 6 weeks, depending on cap table complexity.

Free readiness check

Is your company ready for an ESOP?

7 quick questions. No email required to see your score — takes about 2 minutes.

1. What stage is your company at?

2. How many employees do you have?

3. Do you already have any equity compensation in place?

4. Are you planning to raise funding in the next 12 months?

5. How would you rate the risk of losing key people without better equity incentives?

6. How complex is your cap table today?

7. Do you have in-house legal or finance resources to manage an equity plan?

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Book your free ESOP assessment

Tell us a bit about your company and we'll reach out to schedule a call.