Kenneth B. Tillou

Kenneth Tillou has extensive experience in the areas of income taxation, employee benefits and executive compensation. Mr. Tillou advises on the tax and employee benefit aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including tax planning for acquisitive and divisive reorganizations, single entity reorganizations and bankruptcy reorganizations, taxable asset and stock sales, leveraged buy-outs and acquisitions through joint venture entities.

In the area of tax planning, Mr. Tillou also assists with tax planning for the formation of new businesses, redemptions, liquidations, workouts, like-kind exchanges, leveraged leasing transactions, restructuring of partnership capital and debt, and partnership real estate transactions.

He also designs, implements and consults on the administration and termination of stock option plans, employee stock purchase plans, phantom stock and other synthetic equity plans, defined benefit pension plans, 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans, money purchase pension plans, ESOPs, non-qualified deferred compensation plans and SERPs, cafeteria plans, group health plans, disability and life insurance plans and other employee benefit plans and programs. He also provides consultation with respect to executive employment agreements, consulting agreements and change in control agreements.

Mr. Tillou has been awarded an AV rating – the highest awarded by Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been listed in the 2008-2015 editions of Best Lawyers in America and he has also continuously been listed in editions of Utah Business magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite.

• Update - 2013 Federal Income Tax Increases January 3, 2013
• Planning for Pending Federal Income Tax Increases August 2012

PRACTICE AREAS
• Business and Finance
• Tax
• Corporate Tax
• Equipment Leasing
• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
• Private Equity Fund Formation
• Executive Benefits and Compensation