Daniel B. Lange

Daniel Lange assists companies and executives with their compensation and benefits programs, including employee ownership, equity-based compensation and the benefits and compensation aspects involved in mergers and acquisitions.

His solutions help clients stay competitive, securing top talent while minimizing risk and ensuring tax-efficient structures. Public and private commercial companies, investment funds, ESOP trustees and employees rely on Daniel to help them navigate the business, regulatory and tax issues surrounding compensation, benefits, employee ownership, and the process of becoming an employee-owned company. His work includes structuring and implementing practical yet creative executive compensation packages, broad-based equity and incentive compensation arrangements, and identifying related compliance and reporting requirements.

Clients choose Daniel for his perspective, experience working with both employers and executives, understanding of all sides of a transaction, and negotiating skills. He works toward mutually beneficial solutions first determining the critical issues and then addressing them head-on. His clients benefit from the fact that he never loses sight of their end goal and avoids letting minor details derail an otherwise smooth process.

Daniel also counsels buyers, sellers, management and lenders on the benefits, and related tax laws and issues that arise in transactions, such as restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and transactions involving company stock held by ESOPs. He is experienced in structuring and implementing retirement and welfare benefit programs, including severance, health and disability, addressing their compliance and reporting obligations and guiding plan administration committees on minimizing personal liability in plan oversight.

Experience

• Managed negotiation of a $500 million transaction involving the go-forward arrangements for a group of management employees with the buyer while their company was being sold. Sale proceeds for the management team were worth more than $25 million. The process required the management team to work as representatives of the seller for purposes of the sale transaction, while simultaneously negotiating for themselves and the benefit of the post-sale company. The transaction closed successfully and when the company sold again, they were able to cash-in for generational wealth amounts.