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Lorna Parkin
Work Department
Employee Share Schemes and Incentives
Position
Lorna is a Senior Associate with particular expertise in advising global companies and banks, and has experience in advising on all aspects of executive and employee incentive matters. This includes global and UK employee share plans and executive remuneration. Lorna has a broad corporate and commercial background and offers practical, commercial advice.
Lorna leads on the work we do for a number of large global companies such as Rolls-Royce, Discovery, Dell, TripAdvisor, Volvo and Morgan Stanley, and is key to the clients in our US market in particular.
Lorna regularly presents at many industry events and is a member of the ProShare Global Focus Group. She teaches annually on Tapestry’s Certificate in Employee Share Plans Course as well as managing the content for, and development of, Tapestry’s online leading global database OnTap, which contains legal and tax information in over 150 countries. Lorna also sits on the Board of Directors of Tapestry under the Employee Ownership Trust structure, using her wealth of experience for the benefit of the firm.
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
Kings College University (Law LLB)
Sheffield University (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.