Creative ESOP M&A: Innovative Structures for Growth and Ownership

Erin is a partner in the ESOP and employee benefits practice group of McDermott Will & Schulte LLP. Erin Turley focuses her practice on employee benefits matters. She has extensive experience handling issues pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Erin’s tenure as chief executive officer of a privately held company owned by an ESOP provides her unique insights into the legal and practical implications and requirements of ESOP-owned companies.

Allison focuses her practice on employee benefits matters with extensive experience handling issues pertaining to ERISA and ESOPs. Her ESOP practice focuses on the design and implementation of ESOP transactions and provides ongoing legal counsel to ESOP-owned companies. She has been involved in hundreds of transactions, seeing all sides of the "ESOP lifecycle". Allison has advised employers on the implementation of nonqualified plans and executive compensation arrangements that complement the ESOP structure and represents independent fiduciaries in their role as purchaser in an ESOP transaction as to their legal duties with respect to their representation of ESOP participants and beneficiaries.