{"id":3756,"date":"2019-01-05T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stevenslee.com\/sesesop\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:12:28","slug":"ses-esop-strategies-reports-23-closed-transactions-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenslee.com\/sesesop\/news\/ses-esop-strategies-reports-23-closed-transactions-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SES ESOP Strategies Reports 23 Closed Transactions in the Fourth Quarter of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth quarter of 2018, SES ESOP Strategies helped numerous companies achieve their Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) goals. The highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"email_\">Closed 23 ESOP-related transactions in the fourth quarter alone, with a total transaction value of more than $321 million and an average transaction value of $13.97 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"email_2\">Represented companies in 14 transactions and ESOP trustees in the remaining nine transactions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"email_3\">Brought employee ownership to more than 3,100 employees<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you to those companies that selected us for their transactions in Q4 2018. We will continue to work hard to earn your trust and your business going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"auto_assign_link_num_2\" href=\"http:\/\/sesesop.com\/our-services\/\" name=\"sesesop our services \">Learn more about what we do for companies looking to become employee owned and those already operating as ESOPs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We officially began operating as SES ESOP Strategies, a Stevens &amp; Lee\/Griffin Company, on Oct. 1, 2018. Together with its affiliated companies, SES ESOP Strategies brings together one of the largest core groups of ESOP lawyers, consultants and investment bankers in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jgs@sesesop.com\">Jim Steiker<\/a>, President and CEO, at 215.508.5643, or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ecr@sesesop.com\">Ed Renenger<\/a>, COO, at 610.478.2238.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth quarter of 2018, SES ESOP Strategies helped<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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