IPO Lockup Planning Made Clear

Make confident, tax smart decisions before or after your IPO lockup expires, with a team built to navigate every angle.

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A Dedicated Team for Your Financial Life

An IPO is a wealth‑defining moment. Our unified in‑house team of planners, tax specialists, investment professionals, and estate strategists works together to help simplify complex equity decisions and build a coordinated strategy tailored to your goals.

Specialized IPO & Equity Compensation Services

  • Equity Proceeds Forecasting: Understand after‑tax outcomes across sale scenarios.
  • Stock Diversification Strategy: Reduce concentrated stock exposure tax‑efficiently.
  • AMT & Tax Exposure Planning: Model ISO/AMT timing and multi‑year implications.
  • QSBS Eligibility Review: Identify qualification opportunities and documentation needs.
  • Hedging & Protection Tools: Use collars and hedging strategies to manage downside risk.
  • 83(b) & Election Guidance: Clarify impacts and optimize multi‑year tax outcomes.
  • Gifting & Legacy Integration: Incorporate equity into trusts, gifting, and estate planning.
  • Multi‑Grant Modeling: Visualize RSU, ISO/NQSO, ESPP behavior across future tax years.

How We Support Your IPO Milestones

1

Getting Organized Before Expiration

Whether your lockup is months away or already behind you, we help clarify what’s urgent, what can wait, and which actions may reduce taxes or risk. Together, we map the key decisions to make at each liquidity stage.

2

Building Your Post‑IPO Strategy

From diversification sequencing to coordinating AMT, QSBS, and liquidity planning, we design a personalized roadmap that integrates your equity into your overall financial, tax, and estate strategy.

3

Executing & Evolving Your Plan

Your advisor and unified in‑house team continually adjust your strategy as markets, tax laws, and your career shift, helping ensure your plan remains aligned with your goals long after the lockup window.

A Family Office for Your Family

We’ve adapted the sophisticated, time-tested strategies used by ultra-high-net-worth individuals to help more families take control of their financial future.

Your Team

A unified in-house team

of planners, investors, accountants, and estate strategists that designs — and executes — your financial plan.

Your Person

A hand-picked advisor

who is focused on serving you, not on finding new clients.

Your Portfolio

An institutional-grade portfolio

personalized to you and managed by a team of 100+ investment professionals, not just one advisor.

Your Firm

A boutique fiduciary with national strength

that combines intimate service and sophisticated capability, and only acts in your best interest.

Mercer Advisors offers the strength of a large national firm with the personal touch you expect from a local office.

$99B
Client Assets*
110+
Offices Nationwide
1620
Team Members

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*Company statistics as of 3/31/26. Client assets refers to client assets under management (AUM) and client assets under advisement (AUA) as well as assets gained from recent acquisitions where the advisory agreements have been properly assigned to Mercer Global Advisors, but the custodial accounts have yet to be transferred and/or the accounts have yet to be migrated to Mercer Global Advisors’ portfolio management system.

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