Evaluating Strategic Options: Comparing ESOPs Among Transaction Alternatives in the Current Capital Markets Environment

Laca Wong-Hammond is a managing director, head of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at Lument. She is in charge of business development and management of the firm,s sell-side, corporate finance, and strategic advisory services to owners and operators of senior care and seniors housing, as well as across the healthcare, multifamily, and commercial real estate spectrum. Laca has closed more than $11 billion of M&A and capital market transactions throughout her career, including corporate exits, divestiture of assets, sale/leaseback, joint venture formation, and capital placement of debt and equity across property types. Laca is also expert in executing creative transactions, including tax-advantaged structures such as sale to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Her clients include founder-operator, private equity, not-for-profit, and publicly-traded companies.