Tapestry Compliance

Employee Share Schemes and Incentives

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, 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 and remains widely-respected by the industry for his wealth of knowledge and commercial approach, now focussing his efforts on Tapestry’s hugely successful target market in Japan.

2024 - to date: Tapestry Compliance, Consultant

2020 - 2024: 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

French, Japanese

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.

Law LLB and LLM, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University

Solicitors exams, College of Law, London