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N1C 4AG
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Hannah Needle
Work Department
Employee Share Schemes and Incentives
Position
Hannah is Legal Director (Partner equivalent) and advises many leading global companies on the implementation and operation of all forms of global executive and employee share and incentive plans, including the design and establishment of new plans, global compliance, managing grants and maturities under existing plans and on technical tax and legal matters. She also advises on the impact of corporate transactions that may affect a company’s global incentive arrangements.
In recent years Hannah has been instrumental in liaising with the UK’s tax authority (HMRC) regarding various important clearances which have enabled clients to deliver significant tax efficiencies. She is currently working with Rolls-Royce on a new application to HMRC.
She leads on the work we do for clients such as The Coca Cola Company, Tesco, Rentokil and Schroders.
Hannah has recently been appointed to the Practical Law Share Schemes & Incentives Consultation Board, which brings thought leadership to Practical Law’s offering in this area.
Hannah is closely involved in the Global Equity Organization (GEO). She holds fellowship status, which recognises her as an industry-leading professional, and serves on GEO’s Board of Directors. Hannah is the Co-Chair of the Share Plan Lawyers’ Corporate and Regulatory Committee and leads a number of the Committee’s working groups, including leading the industry discussions with the FCA and HM Treasury on changes to the market abuse regulations in the UK, post-Brexit.
Hannah sits on Tapestry’s Board of Directors under the Employee Ownership Trust structure.
Career
2016 to date: Tapestry Compliance
2004 – 2015: Pinsent Masons LLP
2006 – Qualified, Pinsent Masons LLP
Languages
English and French
Memberships
Board of Directors, Global Equity Organisation
Corporate Governance and Regulatory Committee, Share Plan Lawyers Group
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
Sheffield University (BA Law with French)
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (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