Preparing to Sell your Business: ESOPs and Strategic Alternatives

Mr. Leach is a Director with BDO Capital Advisors, LLC. He has more than 10 years of experience in banking, leveraged lending and accounting along with five years of ESOP specific consulting work. At BDO, Mr. Leach assists with business development for the ESOP Advisory Group and the execution of transactions. Mr. Leach joined BDO after serving as a Senior Consultant with another firm helping lead the ESOP consulting and transaction execution efforts of the organization. He was responsible for initial ESOP education, feasibility studies, financial modeling, and transaction execution for newly formed ESOPs and second stage transactions. 

Mark is the associate director for ESOP finance at Bankers Trust Company. Mark works with business owners and companies to help find ownership transition solutions. Mark and the ESOP finance team provide leveraged financing for a stock sale to an ESOP, M&A financing, seller note refinancing and working capital solutions for middle-market companies. Bankers Trust is a member of the National Center for Employee Ownership, ESOP Association, Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center. Mark joined Bankers Trust in early 2017 after 12 years of varying roles in international trade, banking, leveraged lending, structured finance and analytics.