Started with the perspective of employee benefits, Employee Stock Ownership Plans or ESOPs have been instrumental and productive for businesses serve many purposes such as motivating employees through equity ownership, enhancing productivity, and profitability; creating a market for stock; transfer of ownership from owner-management to the employee-management team, etc. Despite changes in the law regarding the same, ESOPs have stood the test of time. In crucial and challenging times, ESOPs can be used to create key benefits for businesses.
The webinar provides a broad overview of ESOPs with the following topics:
Key Topics include:
Using ESOPs as a business succession tool
How ESOPs are structured and financed
Typically scenarios where they are used
The tax differences and benefits between S corporation and C corporation ESOP owned companies
Who runs and controls an ESOP owned business
How ESOP shares are valued compared to other sale options
How the employees benefit personally and become more productive
This will be a very attractive webinar for the CPAs, Accountants, Finance Professionals, and Other Accounting Professionals who want to enhance their basket of services and grow their organization.
Learning Objectives
To identify when ESOPs may be useful.
To recognize basic facts about ESOPs and the benefits they provide owners & employees.
To differentiate between C corporation strategies and S corporation strategies.
To recognize how ESOPs valuations are derived.
To identify the pros and cons of seller financing versus bank financing.
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About Presenter
Phillip DeDominicis
Managing Director, Menke & Associates
Prior to joining Menke & Associates 15 years ago, Mr. DeDominicis spent three years as Director of Investment Banking for the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Citigroup in New York, focusing on change of control advisory assignments to middle-market companies. Prior to that, Mr. DeDominicis spent ten years as Director of Investment Banking for the Mergers, Acquisitions & Private Finance Group of Morgan Stanley. Mr. DeDominicis received his degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1985, and his MBA degree in Finance and Accounting from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in 1989.
Menke & Associates is a nationally recognized firm that specializes in the design and installation of employee stock ownership plans (“ESOPs”). Since 1974 Menke & Associates has provided comprehensive ESOP services including feasibility and design, financial consulting, legal services, employee communication, and plan administration/ record keeping services. Menke & Associates has installed over 3,000 ESOPs.
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