There are about 1,700 households in Clonakilty, the lovely west Cork town that’s home to JP Morgan’s latest acquisition target, Global Shares. After the stunning $730 million acquisition announced this week, fully one in 19 Clonakilty households will be getting a pay out. Global Shares is literally in the business of employee ownership: it helps companies pay employees in the form of equity ownership. This is a growth industry, which is what attracted the attention of the world’s most valuable and august private bank. So it’s to be expected that lots of Global Shares employees have a stake in the…

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