Employee Stock Ownership Plans
For more than 47 years Atlantic Management has worked with companies in a wide array of industries and their underlying niches. No matter what industry the client hails from, our professionals analyze the key factors for success, the industry trends, and how the company is poised to deal with opportunities and risks.
ESOP Advisory
As nationally recognized experts in this specialized field, Atlantic Management Company has the requisite expertise working with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and companies exploring or pursuing employee ownership. Our professionals have significant experience in ESOP engagements, having represented shareholders, ESOP fiduciaries, along with institutional and internal trustees in over 260 ESOP valuations, transactions, and advisory engagements.
We maintain relationships with leading national and regional institutional ESOP trustees, third-party administrators, bankers, attorneys, and other advisors specializing in ESOPs.
Our professional staff supports The ESOP Association at the national and New England Chapter level, as well as the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) and Vermont Employee Ownership Center (VEOC). Members of the firm speak at national and regional ESOP conferences, and are actively sought to participate on panels.
ESOP Planning
Initial assessment
Assessment of strategic alternatives
ESOP feasibility studies
Preliminary valuations
Financing support
ESOP Formation
Fairness opinions and solvency opinions for ESOP transactions
Initial valuations
Transaction structuring and negotiating
Annual Administration and On-Going Transactions
Advisory services related to an ESOP’s purchase or sale of stock
Annual valuations for ESOP administration
Company buy-side acquisitions
ESOP and ERISA litigation support and expert testimony
ESOP loan restructurings and stretch outs
Fairness opinions for ESOP transactions
Trustee advisory services
Strategic Alternatives
Dividend recapitalization
ESOP terminations
Management buyout
Sale to a financial sponsor (private equity firm)
Sale to a strategic buyer