David R. Johanson, Partner, Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP at the Knowledge Group’s M&A Update: ESOP Financing as a Viable Exit Strategy Live Webcast

New York, NY, February 05, 2016 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that David R. Johanson, Partner, Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “M&A Update: ESOP Financing as a Viable Exit Strategy Live Webcast.” This event is scheduled for March 28, 2016 @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET).

For further details, please visit:
https://theknowledgegroup.org/event-homepage/?event_id=1590#

About David R. Johanson

David R. Johanson is Partner-in-Charge of the Napa office of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP. He has offices in Napa, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York with a team of more than 20 partners, associates, and paralegals to cover his national client base. David and his team assist in general corporate matters and in employee ownership, benefit, ERISA, and related business matters, with an emphasis on executive compensation, equity incentive plans, non-qualified deferred compensation, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), ESOP transactions, mergers and acquisitions (and related tax planning), and business succession and estate planning. David and his team have defended ERISA fiduciaries, plan sponsors, selling shareholders, and investment advisers in ERISA litigation matters involving ESOPs and business transactions in federal and state courts throughout the country in a wide range of controversies covering ERISA fiduciary responsibilities, ESOP valuation disputes, disclosure obligations, investment issues, non-competition disputes, and tax matters. David has extensive experience in negotiating ESOP, ERISA, and other issues with government regulatory agencies and in representing ERISA fiduciaries and members of Boards of Directors and officers in state and federal litigation throughout the country.

About Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP

Over the last half century, Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP has grown to include more than 150 lawyers in nine offices located in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Napa, New York, St. Louis and San Francisco. We represent some of America’s largest corporations, small local businesses and individual clients in high risk litigation and business disputes across the country in all 50 states. As national leaders in their fields of expertise, our ESOP, Employee Benefits, M&A, Tax & ERISA group brings extraordinary depth in perspective when advising clients in connection with retirement plans, equity incentives, executive compensation, shareholder issues, fiduciaries, mergers and acquisitions, and employment and benefits litigation throughout the country.

Event Synopsis:

An alternative exit strategy for owners of privately-held business trying to sell their business in this challenging market environment for business buyers is a sale to a newly created Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). In this Knowledge Group live webcast, a panel of distinguished professionals will discuss which companies would be a viable candidate for this structure and describe the tax and other advantages of this possible exit strategy including, among other things:

- the mechanics and timing of the ESOP transaction
- the "almost too good to be true" tax benefits available to the selling shareholder(s) and the company
- the characteristics of a successful ESOP candidate
- how ESOP-owned companies are valued
- the overall pros and cons of an ESOP transaction

This live webcast will provide M&A, tax and related professionals as well as business owners and executives with a comprehensive overview of the hows and whys of ESOPs as a liquidity/exit planning strategy for shareholders of privately-held companies. Attending this course will give you the tools you need to understand whether and how to pursue an ESOP sale as an alternative exit strategy. Advanced registration is recommended as space is limited.

About The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

The Knowledge Group was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register to an event, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/