Leonard M. Tannenbaum

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Leonard M. Tannenbaum
Born (1971-08-09) August 9, 1971 (age 53)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States of America
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
OccupationEntrepreneur/Financier/Investor
Known forFounder of TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group and Fifth Street Asset Management Inc and AFC.
SpouseRobyn Tannenbaum (married 2019 to present)

Stacy Thorne (married 2013-2016 divorced)

Elizabeth Toll (married 1997-2010 divorced)
Children6 children: Stephen Tannenbaum, Max Tannenbaum, Adam Tannenbaum, Justin Tannenbaum, Gemma Tannenbaum, Ember Tannenbaum
Parent(s)Adele Fuchsberg
Calvin M. Tannenbaum

Leonard M. Tannenbaum (born August 9, 1971) is the Founder and Executive Chairman of TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group. TCG's mandate is committed to offering the market advantages in private credit and real estate. Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fifth Street Asset Management, which was sold to Oaktree Asset Management in 2017. [1] He also founded the pro-business political action committee "Keeping America Competitive". [2]

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Early life and education

Tannenbaum was born to a Jewish family, the son of Adele Fuchsberg and Calvin M. Tannenbaum. [2] [3] His father was a managing partner of Brecher, Fishman, Feit, Heller, Rubin, & Tannenbaum, a law firm in New York; his mother was a district administrator for the Nassau County Board of Cooperative Educational Services [3] and an exile from Cuba. [2] [4] He graduated with a BS in economics and an MBA in finance as part of a submatriculation program from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. [1] [5] He is a Chartered Financial Analyst holder. [5] After school he worked as an equity analyst for Merrill Lynch. [6]

Career

In 1998, he founded Fifth Street Finance, a finance company specializing in raising funds from private investors and investing in small- and mid-sized companies. He raised $30 million [6] ($15 million from his father-in-law, Bruce E. Toll) and established his first fund which made investments until 2004. In January 2005, he launched a second fund, Fifth Street Mezzanine Partners II which reached $157 million in value and included institutional investors such as DuPont, Sumitomo Bank and WP Global; the fund stopped investing in 2007. In 2007, he launched a third fund, [6] which in 2008, after taking the advice of David Einhorn, he converted into a business development company (BDC). [6] This entity, named Fifth Street Finance Corp., went public in May 2008. [6] Fifth Street's customers were primarily private equity firms that invested in lower middle-market or middle-market companies (averaging $10 million in EBITDA). Investments average $35 million and never exceed $100 million. [6] Effective September 2014, they received permission form the S.E.C. to increase the maximum investment across its platform to $250 million. [7] Len was honored with the M&A Advisor Lifetime Achievement and Leadership Award and inducted into the M&A Advisor Hall of Fame. In 2017 Fifth Street Asset Management was sold to Oaktree Asset Management.

In 2020 he founded TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group out of his family office and in March 2021 took a mortgage REIT AFC Gamma public on the Nasdaq trading under the ticker AFCG and in 2024 spun out the REIT, Sunrise Realty Trust which went public on the Nasdaq trading under the ticker SUNS. The companies are institutional-quality lenders to industrial and commercial real estate.

Tannenbaum is a supporter of the Palm Beach Zoo, Jewish Federation of Palm Beach, Wharton University, Yo Soy Ella, PA CASA Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, Corners Outreach and Chess in the Schools. [8]

Tannenbaum is also the Chairman of LMT Investments LLC and the President of the Leonard M. Tannenbaum Foundation.

Personal life

In 1997, Tannenbaum married Elizabeth Toll, daughter of housing developer Bruce E. Toll, in a Jewish ceremony at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia. [3] They had three children Stephen, Max and Adam and divorced in October 2010. [9]

In 2013, he married Stacey Thorne and the couple divorced in 2016. (son, Justin)

Len married Robyn (Friedman) Tannenbaum in November 2019. They have two daughters Gemma and Ember.

He has six children (Stephen, Max, Adam, Justin, Gemma and Ember).

Max was the president of Dream Dragons, a company launched by 13 high school students through the Southwestern Connecticut chapter of Junior Achievement program, which empowers young entrepreneurs. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bloomberg: "Fifth Street Founder Set to Become One of World's Youngest Billionaires on IPO" By Caleb Melby and Leslie Picker October 10, 2014
  2. 1 2 3 Greenwich Time: "Political heavy hitters assemble at financier's mansion" by Neil Vigdor May 11, 2012 |The son of a Cuban exile who is also Jewish, Tannenbaum railed on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
  3. 1 2 3 "Elizabeth Toll, Leonard Tannenbaum". The New York Times . May 25, 1997. Mr. Tannenbaum, 25, graduated and received an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
  4. ↑ Mergers & Acquisitions: "Welcome Wagon for Small Businesses? - Excerpts from Mergers & Acquisitions' interview with Leonard Tannenbaum, founder of Fifth Street Finance Corp. and the founder of the Keeping America Competitive PAC" by MARY KATHLEEN FLYNN September 24, 2012 |"Through my mother, I'm a descendant of Cuba, and I really think Hispanics haven't had the right voice in government."
  5. 1 2 Association for Corporate Growth: "Leonard M. Tannenbaum, CFA Chief Executive Officer Fifth Street Management LLC" retrieved October 27, 2014
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ABF Journal: "Filling the Gap ... With Enthusiasm A Conversation With Leonard Tannenbaum, CEO of Fifth Street Finance" by Lisa M. Goetz May/June 2012
  7. ↑ ABJ Journal: "Fifth Street Receives Co-Investment Exemptive Order from SEC" by Staff
  8. ↑ MarketWatch: "Leonard M. Tannenbaum To Receive The 2013 M&A Advisor Leadership Award" December 10, 2013
  9. ↑ Philly Magazine: "Bruce Toll Says (Former) Son-In-Law Defrauded Him - A rich man's bad cocktail: money and family" By Victor Fiorillo December 14, 2011
  10. ↑ Greenwich Time: "Future captains of industry' meet at Fifth Street" By Maggie Gordon] December 18, 2014
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