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Financing an ESOP Transaction

Join Pilot Hill Advisors in Salt Lake City at this Year’s NCEO Annual Employee Ownership Conference and learn about financing ESOP transactions.

Our session will discuss how ESOP transactions are financed, and how ESOPs are funded post-transaction. The focus will be on the various sources of financing – bank financing, seller financing, and company cash, as well as the various financing structures.

The learning objectives for this session include:

  1. The main objective is to have the audience understand the ESOP financing alternatives, with an emphasis on conveying the flexibility of ESOP financing. This includes the tax implications.

  2. The second objective is to have the audience understand that bank-financed 100% buyouts are not the only way to go. There are numerous other structures that are less cash-flow dependent.

  3. The third objective is to touch on the more sophisticated financing tools such as warrants, SARs, and earnouts.