A Defining Moment

Why Right Now is a Once-in-a-Generation Window for ESOPs

It’s highly likely that employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are about to find themselves center-stage. Four converging forces—a market void for buy-out capital, a historic wave of founder successions, accelerating momentum around employee ownership, and an unprecedented stack of pro-ESOP legislation—have all intersected to make this perhaps the most attractive entry point for ESOPs in decades.