What We Offer

Shareholders of closely held businesses exploring exit strategy and succession planning options can expect a proactive team. ESOP Partners starts by asking the right questions and listening closely to understand your goals.

When you work with ESOP Partners to build your ESOP from the ground up, you’ll know your employee stock ownership plan has been designed to meet your individual goals and objectives, which may include:

• Allowing you to access the liquidity you want from your business, with a sale structure that optimizes your net after-tax proceeds
• Enabling you to maintain your leadership position if you prefer, and control your own exit timeline
• Supporting ongoing company profitability and growth well into the future
• Attracting and retaining great employees with a unique retirement benefit
• Ensuring compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements for employee stock ownership plans

Whether you implement your ESOP with our guidance or another service provider, we can help you be certain that it’s financially fit, fully compliant, and delivering the best possible benefit to your ESOP-owned company and plan participants.

Proactive consulting and expertise is key to ensuring your plan is performing as intended — and that you’re fully compliant to maintain tax-qualified plan status. ESOP Partners recognizes the value of synergies between consulting and administration to take the best care of both sides of the equation. That’s why we do both.

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How can you tell if your ESOP is delivering full business value?

When all your employees embrace and uphold a culture of ownership and accountability, you’ll see it in results like increased productivity and profitability, innovation, waste reduction, customer service improvements, and more. 

But employee ownership culture doesn’t arise out of nowhere: it’s cultivated and nurtured through employer-sponsored communications, leadership, and programming.

Studies show that businesses with strong ownership cultures consistently outperform those without. Our individualized services help foster a sense of shared ownership that can contribute to better business outcomes.

The success of an ESOP depends on its ability to repurchase company stock from plan participants when they retire or leave the company. That financial liability, if not properly planned for, can create a fiscal challenge for your ESOP and your company.

ESOP Partners’ proprietary sustainability study process, ESOP PROS™ (Proactive Repurchase Obligation Strategy) enables customers to evaluate and plan for future ESOP distribution payouts and creates an accurate, actionable, holistic sustainability plan to help keep your ESOP on track over a 20-year trajectory. It starts with a one-on-one expert consultation, eliminating overreliance on algorithms and forms.