Graeme Nuttall is dual qualified as a
solicitor and a chartered tax adviser. He is head of the firm’s
Tax Practice and leads the Equity
Incentives and Charities and Private Client Groups. Graeme is
recognised as a leading expert on employee share plans with
particular expertise in employee owned businesses. On 8
February 2012 he was appointed the Government's independent adviser
on employee ownership, a part-time voluntary role.
As a member of the HM Treasury Employee
Ownership Advisory Group he helped develop the HM Revenue and
Customs approved share incentive plan and enterprise management
incentives arrangement. He also drafted the Employee Share Scheme
Bill, a successful Private Member’s Bill. He is legal adviser
to the Employee Ownership Association, the voice of co-owned
business in the UK.
Graeme’s experience includes advising:
- Leading employee
and trust owned companies
- Privately owned
companies to convert to employee and trust
ownership.
- Social enterprises
and charities. His broad ranging experience includes
helping achieve charity registration for the General Medical
Council.
- Public sector
employee led mutuals He advised on the
constitutional structuring, tax and employee ownership aspects of
all the main mutualisation pathfinders, City Health Care
Partnership, Central Surrey Health Limited Sunderland Home Care
Limited
Graeme is published extensively. He and
others at Field Fisher Waterhouse contributed to “How to become an
employee owned mutual – an action checklist for the public sector”
(2011) which was welcomed by Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude
and the chair of the Prime Minister’s Mutuals Taskforce, Professor
Julian Le Grand at its House of Commons launch in March 2011. He
helps produce the well known reference data, the UK Employee
Ownership Index, which tracks the performance of UK quoted
companies where employees hold a significant proportion of the
equity.
Graeme has also helped developed employee
ownership in countries such as Romania, Russia, Bulgaria,
Macedonia, often in conjunction with the governments of the country
concerned and the UK Government. For example, he advised the
Macedonian Trades Union Confederation on new employee share
ownership legislation. Graeme has given seminars all over the
world on employee ownership.