Global Shares Reviews for 2025

What is Global Shares?

Global Shares is a cloud-based employee ownership platform that assists public and private companies with managing employee stock compensation plans. Key features include performance tracking, rewards management, goal setting, stock trading, and electronic messaging. Global Shares provides equity compensation solutions to some of the world’s most exciting companies.

The Global Shares platform enables administrators to create long-term incentive plans for employees, including stock options, warrants, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units, performance stock units, deferred stock, and phantom stocks. It allows managers to administer employee stock purchase plans by defining contribution limits, company matching, and dividends, as well as maintaining regulatory compliance and accounting for tax rates between multiple states. We’re 100% focused on equity compensation and understand how important it is to get it right. We have been doing this for more than 15 years and work with some of the most exciting startups, tech unicorns, and enterprise brands across the globe. From seed to IPO and beyond, we’ve got an equity management solution to suit your needs.

Global Shares includes a trading platform, which displays fees from global stock markets, enables employees to check stock prices, provides trade confirmations, allows participants to access favorable corporate rates, and transfers funds to employee bank accounts on trade settlements. Employees can also access a customized portal to view vested or unvested equity, award balances, historical transactions, etc. Whether you are an emerging, private or public company operating nationally, internationally, or globally, when you choose Global Shares, you are supported by our team of 700+ equity experts and an award-winning software platform. Our solutions include stock plan administration, global custody, share-dealing, financial reporting, global compliance, and more. We are a MiFID and FINRA-regulated firm.