ESOP Pool & Vesting Management
จัดการ ESOP Pool + Vesting schedule · § Instrument
Quick Answer
ESOP scheme + policy from THB 85,000 · Individual option agreement THB 8,500/employee · Cliff/vesting refresh + tax opinion THB 55,000.
Timeline: Design 2 weeks · Shareholder resolution 1 week · Rollout the following month.
Official fee: No official fee for Ltd. companies · DBD capital-increase THB 5,500 on exercise.
Legal Basis
SEC Notification TorJor. 32/2551 (listed-company ESOP). For startups: CCC + option agreement; PLC Act §45 requires 3/4 shareholder approval.
Who Needs This
Startups attracting top talent · CFOs managing pool dilution · Employees understanding their rights.
Required Documents
- Cap table + fully-diluted schedule
- Strategy: pool size (typically 10–20%), grant guideline by role/level
- Employment contracts (linking vesting to termination)
- Board + shareholders' resolutions
Common Pitfalls
- 1-year cliff + 3-year monthly vesting is market standard; 4-year full vest hurts founder retention
- No good-leaver/bad-leaver definition invites lawsuits after termination
- Exercise price too low = Revenue Department treats as employee benefit with withholding
- Foreign employees on exercise trigger home-country CGT — get a tax opinion
Typical Use-cases
- Series A startup setting 15% pool before closing
- Refreshing vesting for a senior engineer after 3 years
- Corporate spin-off granting ESOPs to founding team
FAQ
- How large should the pool be?
- Seed 10–12% · Series A 15–18% · Series B+ 5–10% top-up — set before closing so new investors share dilution.
- What is a cliff?
- Waiting period before vesting starts — market 1 year = leaving before 12 months = 0% · Post-cliff vests monthly or quarterly.
- Do I lose all options if fired?
- Depends on cause: good leaver (redundancy) keeps vested options · bad leaver (misconduct) forfeits all — spell it out in the grant letter.
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