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As an ESOP attorney, business owners count on me for guidance to develop stock-based succession plans that give them liquidity and a secure retirement, and incentivize their employees with a stake in the outcome.
Our ESOP attorneys and consultants have assessed plan suitability, designed, and quarterbacked transactions for hundreds of companies ranging from professional firms and banks to manufacturers and retailers. And we’ve stayed there for the life of the plan to help assure its sustainability and continued success.
In addition to ESOPs, as a certified tax lawyer with deep experience in IRS retirement plan law, I’m able to work with businesses owners and their team on a variety other types of stock-based approaches based on their corporate, strategic, and legal needs.
My practice also includes:
- Fiduciary representation and Department of Labor/IRS audit defense.
- Management incentive planning, such as nonqualified and equity deferred compensation.
- Corporate governance.
- Leveraged buyout transactions.
- Sales, mergers, and acquisitions of ESOP companies.
- Terminations and wind downs of existing ESOPs.
- Legal issues involved in plan administration.
Most Watched Page
What, who, why, how? All your ESOP questions answered face-to-face in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan Video FAQs.
Most Read Article
Learn about the utility of the ESOP as both a technique of corporate finance and an employee benefit plan in ESOPS: The Three Types.
Pats On The Back
Preeminent Rating, Martindale Hubbell.
Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, which recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of the employee benefits field.
Registries, The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers.
Organizations
A frequent contributing speaker and author in the area of ESOPs for the National Center for Employee Ownership , where he sits on the Board Of Directors, and The ESOP Association.
Author of the accreditation course materials on ESOPs for the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries.
Education And Bar Affiliation
J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and two B.A. degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara
Admitted to practice in California
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