WHY LAKE HOUSE
The decisions made in 12 months can define a generation
The 12 months around a liquidity event contain more high-stakes financial decisions than the prior decade combined. Lake House exists to make sure those decisions get made in the right order, with the right professionals at the table, before the planning windows close.
Independent.Specialized.Built for that window.
Structural Independence
We custody at Schwab, Fidelity and Raymond James, hold no proprietary products, and earn nothing from product manufacturers. The advice is what we'd give our own families.
Specialty
Depth
The decisions at an acquisition or a vesting cliff aren't a retiree's decisions. We built the firm around a few practices because depth serves client better than generalist breadth.
Built for Inflection Points
Most advisors are built for the long calm middle. We're built for the years that determine whether wealth funds a generation or evaporates. That's the model.
M&A & Liquidity Events
Acquisitions, IPOs, and change-of-control events - the 12 month window when planning matters most.
Executive Equity Comp.
RSUs, ESPP, NQDC, and options managed as one integrated system, not five seperate decisions.
Pre-Retirement Executives
For those approaching the end of their working years, we turn a career's worth of equity, deferred comp, and savings into a retirement income plan that actually holds up.
Step 1:
MAP THE MOMENT
- Equity Comp Calendar & trigger timeline
- Tax exposure & family decisions
- The professinoals already in your ecosystem
Step 2:
BUILD THE PLAN
- Sequencing tax, equity, charitable & transfer moves
- CPA, attorney & HR at the table
- A plan across the next 12 to 36 months
Step 3:
ACT
TOGETHER
- 10b5-1 setup on deadline
- 280G election windows
- Year end Roth convertions
Step 4:
REVIST & REFINE
- Proactive outreach as equity keeps vesting
- Adjustments as tax law changes
- The work is never "done"