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Matthew Hunter

Matthew Hunter

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Tapestry Compliance

Tapestry Compliance

England - London • Employment

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Employee share schemes

Tapestry Compliance's practice is ‘uniquely focussed on employee incentive plans’, offering its specialist expertise to technology, manufacturing, financial services, and consumer goods clients. Dividing her time between London and Leeds, practice co-head Hannah Needle is highly experienced in advising on a range incentive arrangements for companies with multi-jurisdictional interests. Chris Fallon co-leads the practice from London and Birmingham, and he frequently advises on employee and executive share and cash incentive plans, with his broad client roster spanning manufacturing, recruitment, and aviation companies. Also dividing her practice between London and Leeds, Suzannah Crookes specialises in global employee stock purchase plans and executive share, fund, and cash-based incentive arrangements. Emma Parker leads on matters involving the implementation of employee benefit trusts, while Matthew Hunter is skilled at conducting global legal and tax due diligence. Bob Grayson is also a key contact in the team, with his specialisms including plan rule drafting and trust and hedging arrangements.
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Phone
+44 (0)203 432 2556
Email
[email protected]
Profile
tapestrycompliance.com

Profile

Work Department
Employee Share Schemes and Incentives
Position

Matthew is a Senior Associate with broad experience in advising clients on all aspects of their global incentive arrangements.

Matthew advises leading multinational companies across a broad range of sectors on the design, implementation and ongoing legal and tax compliance for their global executive and all-employee share, fund and cash-based incentive arrangements, including companies such as Ascendis Pharma, Comcast, Legal & General, Lucid Motors, Morgan Stanley and Schroders.

Matthew also has particular expertise in advising companies that are subject to financial services remuneration regulations and leads Tapestry’s work in that sector. He advises a number of the world’s leading global banks and asset managers in relation to their remuneration structures.

Matthew regularly presents at industry events in Europe and the US. Matthew co-chairs the ProShare Financial Services Focus Group and is co-secretary to the Share Plan Lawyers Corporate and Regulatory Committee.

Career

2014 - date:   Tapestry Compliance
2017 - Qualified, Tapestry Compliance

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

University of Law (Law, Business and Management MSc)

Sheffield Hallam University (Law LLB)

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Hannah Needle and Emma Parker are excellent lawyers and plans specialists. They truly understand share incentives and are able to take a pragmatic approach to providing solutions to their clients.'

  • ‘Emma Parker is particularly impressive, clear in her advice and strategic in her approach.'

Key clients

  • Associated British Foods
  • Primark

Work highlights

Supporting IAG with a major project in implementing its first all-employee share plan, giving employees across the organisation the opportunity to buy shares in the company.