EVENT
Employee Share Plan Unlocked: Strategic, Tax, and Compliance Insights for Growth-Driven Companies
Date/Time
Date(s) - 21 Aug 2025
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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In today’s competitive talent market, Employee Share Plans (ESPs) have become an essential tool to align employee interests with long-term business growth. But designing and implementing an effective ESP, especially across borders, requires a coordinated understanding of legal structures, tax implications, and operational execution.
In this joint webinar hosted by BoardRoom and Zaid Ibrahim & Co., our multidisciplinary panel unpacked the complexities of Employee Share Plan (ESP) design and implementation from strategic, legal, and tax perspectives. The session offered actionable insights for both first-time share plan adopters and those seeking to enhance existing plans.
Key discussion areas:
- ESP Fundamentals – Core legal and strategic building blocks of a well-structured ESP, covering essential components, plan types, eligibility criteria, and common pitfalls companies must navigate when designing their share plans.
- ESP Lifecycle Taxation – From grant to vesting, exercise to disposal, each phase of the ESP lifecycle carries different tax implications for both the company and the employee. Our tax expert spoke on the key considerations and tax treatment at each stage, with a focus on Singapore.
- Operationalising ESPs – Learn how to transition from plan design to operationalise share plans effectively. We explored best practices, compliance considerations and tools that can support scalable execution.
- Fireside Chat: Cross-Border Case Study – Gain practical insights from a cross-border case study. This interactive segment highlighted real implementation challenges and solutions, offering perspectives from both the legal and tax lens.
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Speakers
Eunice Hooi
Managing Director Asia, Accounting & Tax,
BoardRoom Group
Eunice is a Chartered Accountant and Accredited Tax Advisor with more than 25 years of extensive tax and transfer pricing experience across diverse industries in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, including IT, manufacturing, commodity trading, petrochemical, as well as oil and gas. She has built and led high-performing teams, overseeing tax and custom functions, including special corporate projects and initiatives.
She is an Executive Council member of the Asia Estate Planning Association (AEPA) in Singapore.
Adrian Ee
Project Lead
BoardRoom Employee Plan Services
Adrian Ee brings over a decade of operational expertise across diverse industries.
He has led the successful implementation of numerous share plan projects, accommodating participant groups ranging from under a hundred to several thousand. With a deep understanding of the complexities involved in share plan administration, Adrian delivers strategic, tailored solutions that address the unique needs of each organization.
Tan Wooi Hong
Partner,
Zaid, Ibrahim & Co.
Wooi Hong brings almost three decades of experience to his corporate practice. He provides comprehensive counsel on foreign investments, including approvals and incentives, alongside a broad spectrum of commercial transactions, takeovers, mergers, and corporate finance matters.
His expertise spans significant M&A and corporate restructuring projects, making him a go-to advisor for complex corporate endeavours, including those within the IPO ecosystem and requiring familiarity with foreign Employee Share Option Schemes (ESOS) and associated Securities Commission regulatory frameworks.
At BoardRoom, she serves as the appointed subject matter expert for accounting and is actively engaged in the review of business models and costings, as well as development and review of business processes, financial policies, and procedures. She ensures compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
In her regional capacity, Shuzhen assists clients with both local and global reporting, managing internal stakeholder requirements, and overseeing local country statutory filings.