Business Credentials

ESOP Information

Update of Employee Ownership Law 1/11/01

Utility Merger Toolbox for Labor (outline)

Utility Merger Toolbox  (Power Point Presentation- IE 4 only)

Case Studies

ESOP Education Materials for Labor Unions

Publications of Deborah Olson

ESOP/FYI Newsletter July 2001

ESOP/FYI Newsletter April 2000

ESOP/FYI Newsletter 1998

Strategies to Fix Globalization

Fair Exchange

Specializing in Employee Ownership, ESOPs, Representation of Employee Owned Companies, Stock Options, Business and Capital Strategies for Labor Unions,  Ownership Policy Development & Community Economic Development

Attorney Deborah Groban Olson
1021 Nottingham Road
Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan 48230
Phone (313) 331 7821
Fax (313) 331 2567
Email dgo@esoplaw.com

Atty. Deborah Groban Olson has over 22 years experience specializing in employee ownership and equity compensation programs including ESOPs, stock options, and corporate transactions, for companies, families who own companies, trustees, unions, and employees; serving as corporate or ESOP counsel, structuring transactions and assisting unions facing corporate restructuring. Since 1981, Attorney Deborah Groban Olson has worked on over 170 such projects in companies with asset values ranging from less than $1 million to those with assets valued at hundreds of millions .She also represents co-operatives and community development corporations.

Olson is Executive Director of the Capital Ownership Group (COG), a Ford Foundation funded virtual think tank, developing policy to broaden capital ownership globally. COG's funders have also included the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and the European Union. She is also a board member and past Chair of the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), and she serves on the Board of Directors of the European Federation of Employed Shareholders (EFES).

Attorney Deborah Groban Olson is also very active in community economic development in the Detroit Metropolitan area and serves as a founding board member of Joint Cities Development Corp.

Thinking of Selling Your Business? An ESOP Can Save You Money.

Union Experiences with Worker Ownership 1982 Wisconsin Law Review 729