William Gust Bio

Bill Gust is a Senior Tax Partner with Gentry Locke located in the Roanoke, Virginia office. For more than 40 years, Bill has worked with business owners relative to tax, business transitions, employee benefits, corporate, and sophisticated estate planning matters. With his expertise in implementing business succession strategies, Bill has assisted in the successful transition of many privately held businesses, through sales, mergers and implementation of numerous ESOPs. A member of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) and the ESOP Association, Bill is a frequent lecturer on estate, business and tax planning as well as IRS and DOL compliance matters. As a part of his corporate practice, Bill regularly advises clients on mergers & acquisitions issues, qualified and nonqualified retirement and executive deferred compensation plans. He is consistently noted as a Virginia Super Lawyer in Tax Law, based on his high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, and is consistently noted by Best Lawyers in America list for Tax and Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law.