CP’S TECH & HIGH GROWTH TEAM AGREE NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP PLATFORM: GLOBAL SHARES


15 September '22

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As part of our fast-growing Tech & High Growth ecosystem, we’re delighted to announce we’re partnering with Global Shares Growth Platform. The platform builds on the pedigree of the Global Shares business and has been specifically designed for High Growth companies to manage their cap table, their investors and their option holders.

SUPPORTING YOUR GROWTH AGENDA

Cooper Parry will deliver events and content for Global Shares High Growth customers focusing on the key challenges around share incentives. The partnership will be led by Andrew Holloway, Tax Director, who will share his insights and expertise around EMI Schemes, CSOPs, Growth Shares and all other tax related implications facing scaleups who developing their incentives strategy.

Businesses experiencing rapid growth who are working with Global Shares will have direct access to the experience and knowledge of our scale-up specialist team.

In return, Cooper Parry clients will be offered the Global Shares software for free, enabling them to manage their equity plans and track their cap table online. This delivers our scale-up clients a significant saving compared to using other cap table products.

STEVE LEITH, HEAD OF TECH & HIGH GROWTH AT COOPER PARRY, SAID:

“Global Shares approach to working together with their clients and partners as an extension of their team has huge synergy with how we work at Cooper Parry.

Their high growth customers are facing a variety of different challenges and don’t have a lot of time to surface them and solve them. Our team seek to understand strategy and trajectory first, and quickly pin points areas that may be of concern. Issues in the way share incentives have been dealt with in the growth phase is something we see come up very frequently in diligence as scaleups are fundraising or going through an exit event. We will be offering Global Shares customers free time to ensure they understand any potential issues in their share schemes.”

Derek Gallagher, Managing Director of Emerging Companies at Global Shares said:

“We’re really excited by this partnership with Cooper Parry. It offers a great opportunity for both companies to work together and develop new ways of supporting high growth companies”.