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A commonly distressing experience for owners in a company with an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is that the price of the business as a whole is not the price the ESOP will actually pay.

Loren Rodgers, Corey Rosen, and Scott Rodrick

According to the latest data available from the Department of Labor, there were 6,669 ESOPs covering 14.4 million participants and holding close to $1.3 trillion in plan assets as of the end of 2015.

A company may decide to terminate its ESOP for a number of reasons.

By Laurence Goldberg, ESOP Law Group

ESOP transactions are usually described in very general terms, but it can often help to walk through a specific and fairly complex one.

ESOP law is a balancing effort— the rules ar

The most effective employee ownership companies are the ones that generate and use the most good ideas from the most people about the most different things that can make the company better.

There is no “one size fits all” structure for governance that is correct for every ESOP company.

Under ERISA, the ESOP trust is the legal owner of the shares in an ESOP. The trustee votes these shares, usually at its discretion but occasionally at the direction of plan participants. That includes voting for the board.