Tapestry Compliance

Tapestry is a multi-award-winning boutique law firm specialising in global executive and employee share schemes and incentives. We offer excellent legal service to clients whilst maintaining our ethos of agile working and value for money. We provide insight-driven global solutions, and leading UK technical-expertise.

Whilst always up against large City firms, the strength and quality of our offering means we continue to enjoy substantial growth, both in team size and client roster. Our clients have access to specialist, experienced, lawyers for significantly less; providing all-round better service.

Team

We are the largest incentives team in any UK law firm, providing the breadth of expertise and experience to match any of the big law firms.

Our Partner-equivalents (Hannah Needle, Chris Fallon, Suzannah Crookes) lead the team, providing thought-leadership and a wealth of industry expertise.

We have an impressive senior bench of notable lawyers, all with individual specialisms (see lawyer profiles), include Sarah Bruce, Lorna Parkin, Sally Blanchflower, Emma Parker, Matthew Hunter, Steve Penfold, Paul Abthorpe, Tom Parker.

Bob Grayson’s consultancy brings immense practical expertise and longstanding industry relationships.

Clients

We advise many of the world’s leading companies on their incentive arrangements, plan implementation, documentation and legal/tax compliance, including Unilever, Sage, Rolls-Royce and The Coca-Cola Company. We have provided services to 65% of the current FTSE100 since being founded in 2011 and flagship clients have remained with us since inception. This is complemented by many recent wins, including AkzoNobel, Glencore and Novo Nordisk.

We advise many banks, insurers and asset managers including HSBC, Aviva and Schroders on a range of remuneration and regulatory topics. We also provide support on the impact of transactions and corporate actions on incentive plans.

Industry-leading

Tapestry is well-known for its thought-leadership and proactivity in industry organisations including the Global Equity Organisation (GEO, of which Hannah Needle sits on the Board of Directors), ProShare (for whom a number of our team lead on their industry Focus Groups), Share Plans Lawyers Group (SPLG, in which our lawyers hold Chair, Secretary and Committee positions) and National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and support for those organisations with government/HMRC lobbying. Hannah also sits on the Practical Law Share Schemes & Incentives Consultation Board, highlighting our pre-eminence in the industry.

We were a key contributor on industry responses to HM Treasury’s 2023 Call for Evidence on UK all-employee tax-advantaged share schemes. Our lawyers are frequently requested to present at leading industry events.

Technology

We have developed and continue to invest in our market-leading online global legal and tax compliance database which was developed to provide easily-accessible, cost-effective information on areas such as securities laws, exchange controls, employment law and tax considerations in 150+ countries, helping our clients manage incentives compliance more efficiently.

Training

We provide the UK’s only professional qualification in our industry, the Certificate in Employee Share Plans (accredited by the Chartered Governance Institute UK and Ireland). As well as teaching the technicalities and providing attendees with a solid knowledge foundation, our unique offering shares market knowledge and best practice.

Value-add initiatives

We host a variety of webinars which regularly attract 100+ attendees, and a roundtable programme offering unrivalled guest access to industry policy-makers, facilitating critical peer-to-peer best practice discussions.

We provide email alerts and updates on our LinkedIn network, reporting on breaking industry news and global updates, summarising the key development and providing a perspective from our lawyers.