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The Stanley Building
7 Pancras Square
LONDON
N1C 4AG
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Chris Fallon
Work Department
Employee Share Schemes and Incentives
Position
Chris is Legal Director (Partner equivalent) and is Tapestry’s “UK Counsel”, both internally and externally. Chris has over 20 years of experience working with top-ranked legal and incentives teams delivering UK and global plan design and implementation.
Chris is widely-recognised for his substantial expertise in incentive matters for all types of businesses. He can draw upon a deep range of experience when providing practical and proactive, solution-driven advice on discretionary executive plans, corporate governance and remuneration disclosures, as well as advising on broader employment related tax issues. He also has significant expertise in dealing with Employee Benefit Trusts and private equity-owned businesses.
Chris’s clients include London Stock Exchange Group, Entain and Sage, as well as Vertical Aerospace.
Chris regularly presents at many industry events including those run by industry body ProShare sharing his expert knowledge with the market. He has also assisted ProShare with successfully lobbying HMRC and the government on various industry practical issues, including discussions around how the government’s recent tax changes will impact share plans affecting the wider workforce. Chris is a member of the Society of Visually Impaired Lawyers.
Chris’s role as Tapestry Board Director for the Employee Ownership Trust gives him invaluable practical experience of structuring employee-focussed solutions, from within.
Career
2015 – date: Tapestry Compliance
2008 – 2015: Travers Smith LLP
2007 – 2008: Charles Russell LLP
2004 – 2007: Smith & Williamson
1999 – 2004: Ernst & Young
2003 – Qualified, Ernst & Young
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
Sheffield University (Law LLB)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employee share schemes
(Next Generation Partners)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
- Next Generation Partners London > Employment > Employee share schemes