order to check your financials. "sorry we never got one?" though 9.8 million invested, no p&l, nothing , a construction project run amok , no budget, the coo fired after only 3 months. , no clue. I can add that artspace financials are also a total mess.
As your friend and in order toturn the page. I will try to be constructive The following is a list of things I think would be in your interest to get done asap .but definitely not by me.
isuggest you form new grats. , hire a high level tax partner. use your trading accounts as they remain the paramount requirement 16 months after i emailed to you their importance. , I suggest you consider having the 49percent of phaidon merged into artspance and have Richard buy artspace. re-do bank loans. no need to pay interest at higher rates on boat or plane. . as Richard is now no longer trustee. re- do will, make suydam executor , with Barry, and john as back up. pay 1 million a year for executor role. get rid of Judy Black trust, deal with gifts and their tax returns, . review amounts to kids at fixed ages. put more protections in for Alex and Victoria. , distribute some money to kids let them make decisions. , decide art division with children in attendance . have fire drill done on estate. fill out estate returns as if you and Debra died today, choose advisers - rick bronstein said the only 1040 he ever filled out was his own. ( this is brads chosen advisor??!) Halperin has a conflict that should be addressed., Debra should enter a tenants in common agreement with kids. you have airplane consultants tax consultants it consultants. plane operation consultant. . boat consultants. architects, lighting , art, legal, . foundation , deal with TRA , BRH, rationalize investments. cash flow. reporting, gaming disclosures. foreign, gift. . prepare tax projections for 15 and 16, . deal with neg basis ( tufts gain, debt financed. art partnership, pledges. sell stock , art, deal with phaidon debt. athene,? income , capital , foreign , exit, corporate, insurance regs, out and inbound issues, basis, appropriate discount rates. ? terminations. control. , qualified dividends. corporate tolls, inversion rules. , grat issues, short swing and other sec disclosures, Rothshcild bank, 150 b they have a distribution network with no products , private bank Rockefeller Rothschild. financial service. deal with UK visa issue sooner rather than later. we can talk about Rowen request re Athene , 2 billion in taxes on transaction. ?!
the facts as i see them
in June and then again Sept, we both agreed to a 50% of phaidon payout., then after weeks of thinking about the issue ( which I fully understand ) . the payout was unilaterally changed . 5m woudl be reserved for the future ? . and out of the remaining 15m ,? i would receive only 5. ( note : I'm confident that both the debt , and the artspace investment will also lead to a write off of another 30 m. plus ) In my dining room ,you were surprised when I said that i require most people to pay their advisory fee up front so that I am assured that I will be properly compensated for my work when strategies that I devise are implemented . you may recall that you appeared offended and said " are you suggesting that 1 would go back on my word" I said no , of course not ! you are my closest of friends ,but my experience is that when amounts get large, people tend to get unhappy when it actually comes time for them to pay ,.
From day zero a 50 - 60 million price was attached as the fair price of the transaction just completed . though this amount was already substantially less thanour agreed and negotiated formula. - I was never told that this was out of range. in fact, alternative methods of payment . plane -in-kind etc, were discussed (ie keeping the 30m portion of fee outstanding till March ) ,I provided as requested a detailed step by step execution plan and reviewed all documents that i was given access to. ( Phaidon was not forthcoming ) in order to make my many corrections. I was then told that Alans involvement warranted a discount . Even in the best of light , though it is beyond question that not one-,not -one time in three years has he ever proposed a unique idea. (including the new tenant in common idea,) and lets say he made a contribution to the plan andeven that it was 50 %. though no one could posit such a large amount unless they were wearing a brightly colored clown suit. , the price of doing the deal was
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