Richard C Mapp

Practice Areas

Business Taxation; ESOPs & Employee Benefits, Mergers, Acquisitions & Strategic Alliances

Career

Rick is the Chairman of the ESOPs & Employee Benefits Practice Group at Kaufman & Canoles and is also a member of the Mergers, Acquisitions & Strategic Alliances Group. Rick is also the President of ESOP Strategies, a consulting subsidiary of Kaufman & Canoles, established to provide ESOP Feasibility Studies and other services related to ESOP succession planning.

Rick’s employee benefits practice includes plan design, leveraged employee and/or management buy-outs, business succession planning, executive compensation, banking and finance, and tax planning.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; Taxation Section; Mid-Atlantic Chapter of The ESOP Association; Vice President, Eastern Region; The ESOP Association; Legislative and Regulatory Committee; Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association; Hope House Foundation; President; St. Pius X Catholic Church; Chairman, Development Committee; Professional Services Council; Member

Work Highlights

Represented company and selling shareholders in $50 million bank-financed ESOP buyout of manufacturing facility outside Baltimore, MD; Represent numerous 100% ESOP owned S corporations doing business as government contractors in Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere; Facilitated and closed numerous ESOP buy-outs (bank and/or seller-financed); Provide Employee Benefits counsel for North American operations of a large multinational corporation

Education