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The Stanley Building
7 Pancras Square
LONDON
N1C 4AG
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Bob Grayson
Work Department
Employee Share Schemes and Incentives
Position
Bob has spent his career advising on the global aspects of employee incentive arrangements. His work has included plan rule drafting, communications materials, trust and hedging arrangements, nominee arrangements and all other legal aspects of incentive plans from initial design to post-vesting dealing arrangements.
As a leading expert on global compliance for incentives, first at Linklaters, then in-house at Shell, he brings immense practical experience in dealing with the legal documents and global compliance issues from a business perspective.
Since transitioning his shares in Tapestry to the Employee Ownership Trust, Bob continues to work closely with the team as a consultant (Partner equivalent) and remains widely-respected by the industry for his wealth of knowledge and commercial approach, particularly in unique markets that Tapestry operates in, such as Japan.
Career
2020 – to date: Tapestry Compliance, Consultant and Trustee
2011 – 2020: Tapestry Compliance, co-founder and partner
2004 – 2011: Shell, legal counsel with responsibility for global incentive plans
1997 – 2004: Linklaters LLP, London
1990 – 1994: Linklaters LLP, Tokyo
1990 – Qualified, Linklaters LLP, Hong Kong
Languages
French, basic Japanese.
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
Oundle School; Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge (1984 Law; 1985 MA Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employee share schemes
(Leading individuals)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Employee share schemes London > Employment
- Leading individuals London > Employment > Employee share schemes