As your company grows you may have different share classes or option schemes. Or you may need to create new instruments like warrants or convertibles. These are all referred to as “Instruments”. This page explains how to create those instruments so that subsequently record sales or awards to shareholders and employees.
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| For shares | For options | Required? | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrument type | Either share, option or other | same | Required |
| Instrument name | The share class name - e.g. Ordinary, or Series A | The option scheme name - e.g. EMI or CSOP | Required |
| Nominal value | The currency and nominal value of each share | ||
| (see here) | na | Required | |
| Shares which the options purchase | na | The underlying share class which the options purchase when exercised | |
| (see here) | Optional | ||
| Standard exercise price | na | The “default” currency/price to exercise this option | Optional |
| Standard vesting period (months) | ✔️ | ✔️ | Optional |
| Standard cliff (months) | ✔️ | ✔️ | Optional |
💡 Setting a Standard exercise price for the instrument will save you time when making individual awards because this price will be selected by default. You can always override it of a particular award will have a different exercise price
💡 Similarly, setting a Standard vesting period/cliff means that vesting pattern will be selected for all future awards. But again, you can override the vesting parameters for any particular award if needed.
You can upload documents associated with each instrument. For example, you may want to upload the scheme rules for your option scheme; or you may want to upload the Warrant document for a warrant.