Anna Humphrey

Anna Humphrey is a Partner in the Executive Compensation practice at Goodwin. She joined Goodwin in 2025.

Anna specialises in employee incentives and regularly advises clients particularly in the technology and life sciences sectors.

Anna advises on the full range of employee incentive matters, including structuring and implementing the equity incentive arrangements of private and public companies and multinational groups. She has extensive experience supporting venture-backed companies and their investors and regularly advises on strategic M&A transactions and IPO mandates.

• Advised on UK Incentive aspects of a US Fintech’s Series I fundraising and tender offer
• Advised AI safety and research company on its UK incentives and share schemes arrangements

Member of the Share Plans Lawyers group

• Ranked Lawyer: Employee Share Schemes & Incentives, UK-wide (Band 4), Chambers UK, 2021-25
• Women in Tax Leader and Highly Regarded practitioner (UK), ITR World Tax, 2021-2025
• Recommended individual: Employee Share Schemes, Legal 500 UK, 2023 – 2025

Recent client testimonials include: 

"Anna is fantastic. She is very knowledgeable and is able to provide practical advice.” – Chambers 2025

"Anna is approachable and great to work with.” – Chambers 2025

"Anna provided excellent advice to a portfolio company on a complex topic and introduced some valuable advisers.” – Chambers UK 202]

"Anna is very detail-oriented and obviously strong in her field of experience.” – Chambers UK 2025

"Anna Humphrey is a delight to work with. Her knowledge is superior.” – Legal 500 2025

"Anna Humphrey has fantastic industry knowledge and networks which is crucial in an area like incentives. She takes the time to understand your business and her advice is always pragmatic and commercial.” – Legal 500 2025

Co-Author, “Startups in the UK: Starting and Scaling Up,” PLC Magazine, August 1, 2023