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2018 Account Planning
RM contribution
Relationship Name: Lindemann
Banker Team:
Stewart Oldfield
GCIS Number: 00000427075
Relationship Team:
ISG: Andrew King
DPM:
KCP:
Lending: Laura Farischon/Joshua Frank
Trust/Custody:
WPS:
Deposits:
Other:
Client Profile
This relationship is with Adam Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr, sons of
billionaire George Lindemann, a serial entrepreneur who founded and sold a
handful of businesses over the past half-century, most notably his Metro
Mobile company that was acquired by Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) for $2.5
billion in 1991 and Southern Union Company which he sold to ETE for $5.7
billion in 2012. The Lindemann children (George Jr, Adam, and Sloan
Lindemann) all held ownership stakes in those businesses.
Adam Lindemann is a private investor and influential collector of
contemporary art and design. In partnership with designer Marc Newson, he re-
launched Ikepod, a Swiss watch design company. He also writes a monthly
column on collecting for The New York Observer. He runs art galleries in NYC
and LA (Venus over NY/LA) and is married to Amalia Dayan, another gallery
owner.
George Lindemann Jr. was an accomplished equestrian with Olympic hopes. He
is now a well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and
philanthropist in Miami. He serves as the president of the board of
directors of the Bass Museum of Art. George runs a commercial property
company in Miami and invests in a lot of multi-family residential property
with his father.
Adam and George had a previous relationship with the bank (via PCS) and both
have legacy mortgages here. That relationship ended in 2012 when the broker
left DB. Stewart Oldfield worked with the Lindemann family at Credit Suisse
from 2008, helping with various complex credit facilities, and brought the
relationship back to Deutsche Bank in February 2015.
The family's primary banking relationship is with BAML, which has given them
more than $1bn of loans secured by art, real estate and shares of ETE. They
also have a close relationship with UBS, where their CS broker moved in
2016
Opportunities and Challenges
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We have had several opportunities to lend to Adam and George. Both brothers
maintain leverage against their shares of ETE. While we executed a small
margin loan with George in 2015, it was taken out by UBS when we made a
margin call. We have also looked at a couple of mortgages for George
(commercial and residential) but have not been able to beat BAML on terms or
pricing.
We have tried two or three times to lend money to Adam over the past few
years, but also have not been able to get anything done. There have been
two major issues — first, he is extremely levered against his art, real
estate and ETE shares. When ETE fell from $20 to $4 in 2016, he was
probably close to 100% LTV with $500mm of debt. Second, BAML has controlled
all of his borrowing and prevented us from really being able to compete.
Furthermore, despite Adam's asset-based wealth, he has little cash flow.
The last loan we looked at was a mortgage on the former Andy Warhol estate
in Montauk, but we did not feel Adam qualified for a mortgage based on
limited demonstrable cash flow. He owns another Montauk property that he
has not been able to sell at a $40mm asking price.
Unless we can find a way to develop a meaningful lending relationship, I
don't see opportunities for other business from the two brothers.
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