Services for Company Executives
Increasingly, executives seek independent tax and financial advice from advisors not affiliated with their companies.
The trend results from a number of factors: Perceived conflicts of interest. Increasing scrutiny by regulators. Changes to federal rules that restrict the services a company’s auditors can provide to executives in a personal capacity. A need for privacy. Or simply the desire to get the best year-round advice from professionals of their own choosing—people they relate to and trust to operate solely in their best interests.
Bader Martin’s High Net Worth Services practice delivers an integrated, year-round suite of services for executives of public and private companies.
We offer integrated tax and financial strategies that reflect your personal needs and short- and long-term goals. We work throughout the year to provide the information and advice that allow you to make strategically sound decisions. And we take a collaborate approach, working closely with your money managers and other advisors, and including your spouse and family members if you wish.
Among the services we offer to corporate executives are the following:
 Stock Option Planning
Compensation Planning
Tax Consulting
Integrated Wealth Management/Personal CFO
To ensure that we exercise independent judgment and operate only in your best interest, we never sell products, recommend investments or accept commissions.
Stock Option Planning
If you're like many executives, stock options represent a significant—perhaps the most significant—asset in your financial portfolio. As a result, maximizing value, reducing related costs such as taxes and brokerage fees, and minimizing overall risk through diversification are critical.
Bader Martin offers consulting with regard to the optimal exercise of statutory and nonqualified stock options, including:
 Scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to help you reduce taxes and other out-of-pocket costs, while maximizing value and minimizing risk
Advice regarding Rule 10b5-1 execution plans to provide for the orderly sale of shares within specified parameters and without regard to blackout periods or certain insider trading rules
Tax planning, including alternative minimum tax (AMT) analysis, basis calculations, tax loss harvesting and Section 83(b) elections
Disaster planning in the event of declining stock values
Negotiations with regard to tax-favored terms for the option plan
For example, when the stock price crashed for a Seattle-based technology company, senior executives faced multi-million dollar personal tax liabilities for stock then worth considerably less. Because we routinely keep in touch with our clients throughout the year, we were able to take action before year-end to save one company executive (our client) millions of dollars in taxes. By executing a disqualifying disposition before the end of the year, we reduced a potential $3,000,000 tax liability—for stock then worth only $100,000—to just $35,000.
For other clients, we have been able to negotiate favorable terms in company options plans, such as the right to use appreciated stock to purchase additional stock. As a result, our clients have been able to exercise their options using company stock with no out-of-pocket cost and without triggering a taxable gain. If they had been required to sell the existing stock in order to purchase additional shares, which is the more common case, they would have incurred transaction costs and a considerable taxable gain.
Compensation Planning
Compensation planning has become increasingly complex—both as companies expand the range of benefits they offer to attract and retain key people and as executives feel more free to change companies, perhaps several times, over the course of their careers. Bader Martin can help you to implement a compensation strategy that maximizes the long-term economic benefit of your compensation and benefits package, while minimizing tax consequences.
Executive compensation, including employment contracts and consideration of family and nonfamily issues for family-owned businesses
Bonuses
Fringe benefits
Timing of income recognition
Tax Consulting
Bader Martin’s professionals are experts in the federal, state and local, and international tax regulations that impact company executives. We help you to keep more of the money you earn.
Tax return preparation for federal, state, local and international jurisdictions
Strategic tax planning
Alternative minimum tax (AMT) planning
Estimated tax planning
Tax basis planning and at-risk issues
Household employee tax consulting
Integrated Wealth Management/Personal CFO
Options and other compensation are only a part of your overall financial picture, so we’ve adopted a broader perspective in managing wealth. At Bader Martin, we offer a suite of integrated services, delivered throughout the year, to help you achieve your personal and financial goals.
Financial planning: retirement planning, portfolio and investment consulting, and real estate consulting
Expenditure planning: budgeting and cash flow analysis, education planning, lease/buy consulting, and major transactions planning
Financial reporting: personal financial statements, and accounting and check writing services
Asset protection: personal liability protection, disability and health care planning, divorce planning, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and bankruptcy consulting
Estate planning
Charitable giving and private foundations
Family structuring and governance
Family office services
Coordination with attorneys, bankers, brokers and other professionals
If you’d like to know more about Bader Martin’s services for executives, give us a call.
Bader Martin Contacts:
Chris Strand
Rod Fujita
David Stiefel
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