Built for the moments your equity becomes wealth.
Most of your net worth sits in one company's stock. A deal is coming, or it just arrived. Your CPA sees the tax year. Your attorney sees the agreement. Nobody is sequencing the whole thing — that's the work we do.
Find yourself here.
Four situations we're built for. Each has its own vocabulary, its own deadlines, and its own irreversible mistakes.
Your company is being acquired or going public
RSUs, options, 280G exposure, double-trigger vesting — and a tax bill most people don't see coming.
How we help →You built it, and now you're selling it
QSBS and the five-year clock, 83(b), rollover equity, and what the balance sheet looks like afterward.
How we help →A compressed career with a fixed end date
The A Fund and B Fund, the 415(c) ceiling, loss of medical, and planning around age 65.
How we help →You're responsible for other people's retirement
Plan design, fiduciary process, fee benchmarking, and coordinating your own plan with the company's.
How we help →The deal is announced on a Tuesday.
By Thursday you've read the press release four times and you still don't know what happens to the RSUs vesting in March. Your equity administrator can't tell you. Your CPA will see it next April — after the decisions have already been made.
The window where anything can still be changed is measured in weeks. It's open right now.
- Whether your unvested equity is assumed, cashed out, or accelerated
- What the merger agreement says about your grants
- Your trading window and any 10b5-1 plan already in place
- Which tax year the income lands in
- How much concentration you carry through to close
- Whether the withholding gap is funded before April
- How charitable giving is timed around the event
The questions we hear most.
Written for the executive reading at 11pm the week a deal is announced. No gate, no form, no email required.
What happens to my RSUs when my company is acquired?
The three outcomes for unvested equity, how double-trigger vesting actually works, and the withholding gap almost nobody sees coming.
Read the guide →Section 280G golden parachute payments, explained
Why a change of control can trigger a 20% excise tax on top of everything else — and what the safe harbor really means.
Read the guide →Rolling over a 401(k): the decision most people make too fast
Four options, one of them irreversible — plus net unrealized appreciation, which almost nobody with employer stock is told about.
Read the guide →We are an independent fiduciary firm, a dba of MGO One Seven, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. We hold no proprietary products. Client assets are custodied at Charles Schwab, Fidelity, and Raymond James.
That structure matters most at exactly the moment you need it to. When the right advice is “sell a large position in the company that employs you,” there is nobody upstairs with a different interest in the answer.
“I am so happy that I have my assets with Chris and Lake House. My former broker… has given me a real sense of security in this uncertain world.”
Carolyn S., Lake House client · retirement planning
The statement above is from a current client. This client was not compensated for the testimonial. Because they are a client, a material conflict of interest may exist.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes. We'll talk through what's happening, what's already decided, and what's still open. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.
- It's a conversation, not a pitch
- No preparation required
- No obligation of any kind
Not ready to talk? Download the Discovery Workbook — the questions we'd ask you, so you can work through them on your own time.