Optimize your business opportunities by including our financial planning professionals in your circle of trusted advisors. With many years of experience helping Business Owners and Corporate Executives, we can help you devise strategies to create personal wealth, keep your business growing or assure smooth management transition at a time of change.

A sampling of our business planning services includes:

• Stock option evaluation and financing¹
• Succession and business continuation planning²
• Closely-held stock disposition strategies²
• Buy-Sell agreements²
• Business valuation services
• Retirement plan creation for companies

Certain business opportunities - the impending sale of your company, a successful initial public offering, or the chance to exercise significant stock options - present complex personal wealth management issues that may have long-term consequences. The financial professionals in our Private Client Group are uniquely qualified to create a comprehensive plan to meet your financial goals and to work toward optimizing the results of your hard work.

Because U.S. Bank's Private Client Group fully integrates personal and business financial services under one convenient umbrella, you have ready access to other services to help your business grow and prosper. We can provide investment management services to help you build wealth.

If your business plan calls for additional financing or capital, we can assist you in arranging for business loans, lines of credit, financial counsel for an initial public offering or locating venture capital. We can also meet your personal banking needs, integrating all of your financial services into one, convenient relationship.

From planning to execution, we can help you take your business to the next level.

For more information, contact the Private Client Group

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The information provided represents the opinion of U.S. Bank and is not intended to be a forecast of future events, a guarantee of future results, or investment advice. It is not intended to provide specific advice or to be construed as an offering of securities or recommendation to invest. Investors should consult their investment professional for advice and information concerning their particular financial situation.

1 Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Prior to buying or selling an option, a person must receive a copy of Characteristics And Risks of Standardized Options. Copies of this document may be obtained from your investment professional.

2 This discussion is intended to be informational only and is not exhaustive or conclusive. U.S. Bank and its representatives do not provide tax or legal advice. Each individual's tax and financial situation is unique. You should consult your tax and/or legal advisor for advice and information concerning your particular situation.