An award letter is a letter about an equity grant, but the name is informal rather than a formal document type, and companies use it for two different things. Sometimes the award letter is the award agreement itself, the binding contract for your grant, written in the form of a letter. Other times it is a non-binding cover letter, often from the CEO or head of HR, that announces and summarizes the grant and arrives alongside the award agreement or ahead of it.
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