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From: Ada Clapp < < To: "Bradley J. Wechsler ( >, "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> CC: Eileen Alexanderson < Subject: Trust Investments-Fiduciary Duty Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:31:48 +0000 HI Brad and Jeffrey, Barry just called me to discuss his fiduciary duty in connection with the OWL investment and all investments generally. It is Barry's understanding that Leon's intention, as grantor of the various trusts, is for trust assets to be used for the benefit of his children, which includes helping them learn about investing. In that regard, he can see some basis for the Trustees investing in OWL, an investment that interests the three boys. However, he has mixed feelings about putting the trust funds in a venture capital investment because of the risk factor (understanding of course, that the investment could do very very well). The bottom line of Barry's call is that he would feel more comfortable as a Trustee making such investments if: 1. Leon provided the Trustees with a Memorandum of Intention reminding the Trustees of the reasons for which he created the trusts was and the purposes for which he would approve of trust assets being used; and 2. We prepared a Trustee resolution articulating the reasons why the Trustees decided to make the investment (reciting the grantor's intention as expressed in the memorandum). Barry would also feel more comfortable if the children had more current information about, and were somewhat involved in, trust investment decisions. Along the lines of Jeffrey's earlier suggestion, Barry would like to see the children get regular trust statements (he would be fine with quarterly). We also discussed the possibility of periodic accountings (again, as Jeffrey suggested) and Barry would like to hear more about this. Please let me know how you would like me to proceed and to respond to Barry. If you agree, I can prepare a Memorandum of Intention for Leon to sign in connection with the APO1 Agreement and the APO2 Declaration. This is a non-binding document that is designed to give Trustees comfort in exercising their fiduciary discretion. It does not, of course, guard against a challenge by a beneficiary. The periodic accountings and releases should do that (assuming proper disclosure). Shall we put the idea of quarterly beneficiary statements and periodic accountings on the Agenda for the next Trustees meeting? Ada Clapp Chief Legal Officer Elysium Management LLC 445 Park Avenue Suite 1401 New York, New York 10022 Direct Dial: Fax: Email: This communication and any attachment is for the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that further dissemination of this communication and its attachments is prohibited. Please delete all copies of this communication and its attachments and notify me immediately that you have received them in error. Thank you. EFTA00674432 EFTA00674433