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Kenneth Tillou has extensive experience in the area of employee benefits, executive compensation and income taxation. He 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 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.

Mr. Tillou was listed in Utah Business Magazine's 2008 Legal Elite in labor and employment. He was also listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2008 edition.

  NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

• "39 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named As 2008 Legal Elite", Press Release, January 15, 2008
• "26 Ranked as Best Lawyers in America for 2008", Press Release, October 15, 2007
• "38 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named As 2007 Legal Elite", Press Release, November 27, 2006
• "Changing the Rules", Utah Business, December 2004
• "Retirement Plans and the Great Mutual Fund Scandal", The Corporate Compliance & Regulatory Newsletter, October 2004
• "Cobra Bites Again — The New Cobra Notice Regulations", The Compliance & Regulatory Newsletter, August 2003
• "ERISA Compliance Requirement for Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans", The Corporate Counsellor, December 2002