Use this 6-page Checklist for Developing Employee Stock Option Plans in Private Companies to help guide you through the issues you need to consider and the questions that should be answered in order to set up an employee stock option plan for your company. Topics include:

• benefits to be derived from the plan;
  
• pitfalls to avoid;
  
• valuation of business;
  
• investment opportunities;
  
• drag-along provisions;
  
• anti-dilution provisions;
  
• liquidity;
  
• tax planning;
  
• profit sharing.

This Employee Stock Option Plan Checklist is generic (not country specific) and is available as a downloadable MS Word file.