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Sally Blanchflower
Work Department
Global Executive and Employee Incentives
Position
Sally is a Senior Associate who advises on all aspects of global and UK share plans for leading global companies and banks.
Through the top FTSE and global clients that she works for, Sally has particular experience in the market practice for executive and all-employee plans operating in a multitude of countries, and managing the legal and tax compliance of those plans. In particular, Sally has facilitated various design workshops to help her clients with the design, launch and implementation of new global plans from scratch, in a practical and effective way. Sally also works with clients on the corporate governance requirements for their executive remuneration and the reporting of incentive arrangements in their annual reports.
Sally leads on many of Tapestry’s biggest clients including Unilever, Ericsson, Aviva, HSBC, International Airlines Group, Shopify and Dr. Martens.
As well as regularly presenting at industry events, Sally sits on the Global Equity Organization (GEO) UK Chapter Committee and regularly leads the legal content for ProShare’s Global Focus Group. She leads our customised in-house client training sessions, global webinar programme and delivery of our incredibly well-received client roundtables. Sally also holds the role of employee trustee director of the Employee Ownership Trust for Tapestry.
Career
2015 – date: Tapestry Compliance
2012 – 2015: DLA Piper
2012 – Qualified, DLA Piper
Memberships
Member of, and regular speaker for, many equity incentive industry bodies including The Global Equity Organisation (GEO), ProShare, The Share Plan Lawyers Group and NASPP.
Education
University College London (Law LLB)
University of Sheffield (LPC)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employee share schemes
Described by clients as a team that ‘lives and breathes share plans’, Tapestry Compliance assists a ream of blue chip clients, including Volvo, Unilever and Trip Advisor with ‘everything from day-to-day operational queries right through to complex transactional queries’. The team is co-led Hannah Needle, who is an authority on the design and implementation of new employee share plans, and Chris Fallon, whose expertise extends to employee benefit trusts. Bob Grayson is well placed to advise on matters concerning the Japanese market. Suzannah Crookes has recently leveraged her broad knowledge of share plans to assist with lobbying the government on the use of tax-advantaged plans in the context of the cost of living crisis. Lorna Parkin, Sally Blanchflower and Matthew Hunter are further names to note.