-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, SQv4k+BL3wxOavYcXb7Uls/S6HQczcIed5xROMy5NI9Ed5pUsPZPWaByGs5sgCW9 gEdYclf+E5G4CXUBQBFEoQ== 0000736908-98-000002.txt : 19981221 0000736908-98-000002.hdr.sgml : 19981221 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000736908-98-000002 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 14D9 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 19981218 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUND LP 4 CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000736908 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE [6500] IRS NUMBER: 363304339 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 14D9 SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-54915 FILM NUMBER: 98771697 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUNDS STREET 2: 30 N LASALLE ST STE 3100 CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60602 BUSINESS PHONE: 3124430922 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUNDS STREET 2: 30 N LASALLE ST STE 3100 CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60602 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUND LP 4 CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000736908 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE [6500] IRS NUMBER: 363304339 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 14D9 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUNDS STREET 2: 30 N LASALLE ST STE 3100 CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60602 BUSINESS PHONE: 3124430922 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUNDS STREET 2: 30 N LASALLE ST STE 3100 CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60602 SC 14D9 1 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14D-9 Solicitation/Recommendation Statement Pursuant to Section 14(d)(4) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUND L.P. 4 (Name of Subject Company) Brauvin Real Estate Fund L.P. 4 (Names(s) of Person(s) Filing Statement) Limited Partnership Interests (Title of Class of Securities) Not Applicable (CUSIP Number of Class of Securities) Thomas E. Murphy, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer Brauvin Ventures, Inc. 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 3100 Chicago, Illinois 60602 (Name, address and telephone number of person authorized to receive notices and communications on behalf of the persons filing statement) With a copy to: Don S. Hershman, Esq. Holleb & Coff 55 East Monroe, Suite 4100 Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312) 807-4660 Item 1. Security and Subject Company The name of the subject company is Brauvin Real Estate Fund L.P. 4, a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"). Jerome J. Brault and Brauvin Ventures, Inc., an Illinois corporation, are the general partners of the Partnership (the "General Partners"). The principal executive offices of the Partnership and the General Partners are located at 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 3100, Chicago, Illinois 60602. The title of the class of equity securities to which this statement relates is the units of limited partnership interest of the Partnership (the "Units"). Item 2. Tender Offer of the Bidder This statement relates to a tender offer by MP Value Fund 4, LLC, JDF & Associates, LLC, MacKenzie Patterson Special Fund, L.P., Accelerated High Yield Institutional Investors, L.P., Accelerated High Yield Institutional Fund, L.P., Accelerated High Yield Income Fund I, Ltd., MP/Dewaay Fund, LLC, Accelerated High Yield Pension Investors, L.P., MP Value Fund 6, LLC and MP Value Fund 7, LLC (collectively, the "Bidder" or the "Purchaser") disclosed in a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule 14D-1 (the "Schedule 14D-1"), dated December 9, 1998 to purchase up to 2,390 Units at a purchase price equal to $120 per Unit, less the amount of any distributions declared or made with respect to the Units between December 9, 1998 (the "Offer Date") and January 15, 1999 or such other date to which this Offer may be extended (the "Expiration Date") (the "Offer Consideration"), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated December 9, 1998 and the related Letter of Transmittal (the "Offer to Purchase" or the "Offer"). Based on the information in the Schedule 14D-1, the business address of the person authorized to receive notices and communications on behalf of the Purchasers is Mackenzie Patterson, Inc., 1640 School Street, Moraga, California 94556 (the "Depositary"). Item 3. Identity and Background (a) The name and address of the Partnership, which is the person filing this Statement, is set forth in Item 1 above. (b) There is no material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding or any material actual or potential conflict of interest between: (i) the Partnership and the General Partners; (ii) the Partnership and the Purchaser; or (iii) the General Partners and the Purchaser. The General Partners are entitled to receive distributions of the Partnership's operating cash flow and net sale or refinancing proceeds, which amounts are subordinated to certain preferential returns due the limited partners of the Partnership (the "Limited Partners"), as outlined in the Partnership's Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement, as amended to date (the "Agreement"). In addition, an affiliate of the General Partners is compensated for providing property management services to the Partnership. The Partnership paid this affiliate of the General Partners approximately $113,000 for the year ended December 31, 1997 and approximately $92,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 1998, for such services, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement. In addition, should the General Partners or their affiliates provide services to the Partnership in connection with the sale or refinancing of one of the Partnership's real properties, they will be entitled to a fee for such services, however, it will be subordinated to certain preferential distributions due to the Limited Partners, as set forth in the Agreement. Item 4. The Solicitation or Recommendation (a) Recommendation of the General Partners. The Partnership is not expressing an opinion and is remaining neutral towards the Offer to Purchase. (b) Background, Reasons for Recommendation. In deciding to remain neutral on the Offer to Purchase, the General Partners considered the fact that the Partnership engaged Landaur Associates, Inc. ("Landaur"), an entity unaffiliated with the Partnership and the General Partners, to undertake a due diligence and market pricing analysis of the Partnership's real properties--Raleigh Springs Marketplace, Fortune Professional Building, a 58% joint venture interest in Strawberry Fields Shopping Center and a 47% joint venture interest in Sabal Palm Square. The General Partners recently received the valuation information from Landaur. By taking the appraised value of the assets, and the cash and cash equivalents held by the Partnership, as of September 30, 1998, and then deducting the mortgage balances, the anticipated selling costs, the Partnership's other liabilities and the estimated wind-up costs of the Partnership, the Partnership determined that the net liquidation value per Unit as of such date was approximately $277. This value per Unit is an estimate and the ultimate amount actually received by the Limited Partners will be affected by items including, but not limited to, the timing of the liquidation of the assets, changes in market conditions, necessary reserves of the Partnership and the sale prices that can be negotiated. This estimated amount does not include any prior distributions or returns of capital to the Limited Partners. As the Partnership is currently developing a strategy on how best to realize the Partnership's assets' underlying value, the General Partners have decided to remain neutral on the Offer to Purchase. In reviewing the Offer to Purchase, the General Partners were unable to determine how the Bidder will deal with the provision of the Agreement prohibiting a Limited Partner to transfer less than five Units or make any transfer of his Units if after such transfer he owns less than five Units, as the Offer to Purchase is silent on this matter. However, should a Limited Partner desire liquidity at this time, the Offer to Purchase gives the Limited Partner such an opportunity. Item 5. Persons Retained, Employed or to Be Compensated None. Item 6. Recent Transactions and Intent with Respect to Securities (a) None. (b) Not applicable. Item 7. Certain Negotiations and Transactions of the Subject Company (a) The Partnership has not engaged in any negotiation in response to the Offer to Purchase which relates to or would result in: (i) an extraordinary transaction, such as a merger or reorganization, involving the Partnership; (ii) a purchase, sale or transfer of a material amount of assets by the Partnership; (iii) a tender offer for or other acquisition of securities by or of the Partnership; or (iv) any material change in the present capitalization or dividend policy of the Partnership. As described in Item 4 of this Statement, the Partnership is currently developing a strategy on how best to realize the Partnership's assets' underlying value. Until such strategy has been developed, the Partnership will not make a decision whether to proceed with a sale and disposition of these properties, and will remain neutral towards the Offer. (b) There are no transactions, resolutions, agreements in principle or signed contracts in response to the Offer to Purchase that relate to or would result in one or more of the events referred to in Item 7(a). Item 8. Additional Information to Be Furnished None. Item 9. Materials to Be Filed as Exhibits (a)(1) Letter to Limited Partners After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct. December 18, 1998 BRAUVIN REAL ESTATE FUND L.P. 4 By: Brauvin Ventures, Inc., Corporate General Partner By: /s/ Jerome J. Brault Jerome J. Brault, President By: /s/ Jerome J. Brault Jerome J. Brault, General Partner EXHIBIT (a) (1) Brauvin Real Estate Funds 30 N. LaSalle Street Suite 3100 Chicago, IL 60602 December 16, 1998 Dear Limited Partner, Brauvin Real Fund L.P. 4 On December 10, 1998, the General Partners received an unsolicited tender offer to purchase up to 25% of the outstanding Limited Partnership Units of the Partnership for $120 per Unit. The offer is being made in part by an entity that currently owns a nominal economic interest in the Partnership. We anticipate you will be receiving information regarding this offer shortly. At this time the General Partners have not made a decision as to the particular merits or risks associated with the tender offer to the Limited Partners. However, the General Partners would like to reiterate that the Partnership recently engaged a nationally known appraisal firm, Landauer and Associates, to appraise the Partnership's properties. Additionally, Landauer will assist us in determining the appropriate method and timing for the disposition of the Partnership's assets. In summation, based primarily on the independent appraisals of the assets, the estimated net liquidation value of each limited partner Unit as of September 30, 1998 is approximately $277 per Unit. This estimate was calculated by adding the appraised value of the assets, cash and cash equivalents held by the Partnership, and then deducting the current mortgage balances, the anticipated selling costs, the other liabilities and the estimated wind up costs of the Partnership. We would like to caution that this value per Unit is an estimate, and the ultimate amount actually received by each limited partner will be affected by items including, but not limited to, the timing of the liquidation of the assets, changes in market conditions, necessary Partnership reserves and the sale prices that can be negotiated. The value therefore could be more or less than that currently estimated. Please note that this estimated amount does not include any prior distributions or returns of capital. The General Partners are currently developing a strategy on how to best realize the assets' underlying value. We will keep you advised of our progress. Nonetheless, for those investors who are primarily interested in liquidating their Units immediately the tender offer gives you this opportunity. Additionally, there can be no assurance that a better offer for the purchase of your Units may be available now or in the future. Please be advised that by accepting this tender offer you will no longer have ownership interest in the Partnership's assets and thus will not share in any potential changes in their value. Ultimately each of you has to make the determination as to whether to sell now at the current tender price or wait to see the recommendations for the ultimate liquidation of the properties. We do recommend, however, that if you choose to sell your interest at this time, you consider other options for sale including the informal secondary market for partnership units. If you would like further details regarding the informal secondary market please consult with you broker or registered representative. If you choose to accept the tender offer, payment will come directly from the outside group of investors. As always, if you have any questions regarding your investment please do not hesitate to contact us. Sincerely, /s/ Jerome J. Brault Jerome J. Brault Managing General Partner -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----