SC 13D/A 1 dsc13da.htm AMEND 11 Amend 11
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
SCHEDULE 13D
 
 
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. 11)
 
 
BANKUNITED FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Name of Issuer)
 
Class A Common Stock
(Title of Class of Securities)
 
06652B103
(CUSIP Number)
 
Alfred R. Camner
Camner, Lipsitz and Poller, P.A.
550 Biltmore Way, Suite 700
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person
Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)
 
October 23, 2002
(Date of Event which Requires
Filing of this Statement)
 
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of Rule 13d-1(b)(3) or (4), check the following box  ¨.
 
The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act.


 
CUSIP No. 06652B103
 





  1.


 
Name of Reporting Person; S.S. or I.R.S. Identification No. of Above Person
 
Alfred R. Camner
 
   





  2.
 
Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group
(a)  ¨
(b)  x
   





  3.

 
SEC Use Only
 
   





  4.

 
Source of Funds
 
PF, AF, 00
   





  5.

 
Check if Disclosure of Legal Proceedings is Required Pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e)
 
 
¨





  6.
 
Citizenship or Place of Organization
United States
   





NUMBER OF
SHARES
BENEFICIALLY
OWNED BY
EACH
REPORTING
PERSON
WITH






 
  7.    Sole Voting Power
 
          2,408,198

  8.    Shared Voting Power
 
  181,278
 

  9.    Sole Dispositive Power
 
          2,036,973

10.    Shared Dispositive Power
 
  174,723
 



 


 
11.


 
Aggregate Amount Beneficially Owned by Each Reporting Person
 
2,589,476
 
   





12.

 
Check if the Aggregate Amount in Row (11) excludes certain shares
 
 
¨
 





13.


 
Percent of Class Represented by Amount in Row (11)
 
9.5%
 
   





14.

 
Type of Reporting Person
 
IN     
   





 


 
Item 1. Security and Issuer
 
This amended and restated Schedule 13D (this “Schedule 13D”) relates to shares of Class A Common Stock (the “Class A Common Stock”) of BankUnited Financial Corporation (the “Company”), a savings and loan holding company, the principal subsidiary of which is BankUnited, FSB. The address of the Company’s principal executive offices is 255 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, Florida 33134.
 
The shares of Class A Common Stock shown in Item 5 as beneficially owned by Alfred R. Camner (the “Reporting Person”) include shares that would be received by the Reporting Person upon the conversion of shares of Noncumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, Series B (the “Series B Preferred Stock”) and Class B Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Person. Each share of Series B Preferred Stock is convertible into 1.4959 shares of Class B Common Stock and each share of Class B Common Stock is convertible into one share of Class A Common Stock.
 
Item 2. Identity and Background
 
This Schedule 13D is filed by the Reporting Person, a United States citizen, whose principal occupations are serving as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Company and BankUnited, FSB, and Senior Managing Director of the law firm of Camner, Lipsitz and Poller, Professional Association, 550 Biltmore Way, Suite 700, Coral Gables, Florida 33134.
 
The Reporting Person during the last five years has not (a) been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors) or (b) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding been or been subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
 
Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration
 
The information contained in Exhibit 1 is incorporated by reference herein.
 
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction
 
The Reporting Person acquired the securities covered by this Schedule 13D as a grant of long-term performance-based compensation from the Company, to be held for investment purposes. (See Exhibit 1 hereto.) The Reporting Person continuously reviews his equity investments in the Company. As a result, the Reporting Person has, from time to time, acquired, and may, from time to time, acquire, additional securities of the Company for his own account or for purposes of his tax and inheritance planning, either through the exercise of stock options, the receipt of awards under the Company’s employee benefit plans, through one or more privately negotiated transactions, on the open market or otherwise. In addition, while it is not the present intention of the Reporting Person to do so, the Reporting Person may, and reserves the right to, dispose of all or a portion of his securities of the Company, now held or hereafter acquired (either alone or in conjunction with the Company’s other stockholders), in one or more privately negotiated transactions, on the open market or otherwise. Any


 
sales by the Reporting Person could cause a change of control of the Company and might result in a change in the composition of the board of directors or management.
 
Item 5.    Interest in Securities of the Issuer
 
Set forth below is information relating to the beneficial ownership of Class A Common Stock by the Reporting Person (the conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock has been calculated assuming no issuance of fractional shares and no aggregation of Series B Preferred Stock beneficially owned indirectly or in different accounts).
 
Voting Power

    
Dispositive Power

    
Total (% of Shares Outstanding

Sole

    
Shared

    
Sole

    
Shared

      
2,408,198
    
181,278
    
2,036,973
    
174,723
    
2,589,476 (9.5%)
(1)(2)
    
(3)(4)
    
(1)
    
(3)
      
 
1.
 
Includes the following shares:
 
 
(i)
 
492,097 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the Reporting Person’s ownership of 328,964 shares of Series B Preferred Stock.
 
 
(ii)
 
598,704 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the Reporting Person’s ownership of options exercisable within 60 days for 400,230 shares of Series B Preferred Stock.
 
 
(iii)
 
311,669 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the Reporting Person’s ownership of 311,669 shares of Class B Common Stock.
 
 
(iv)
 
480,200 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the Reporting Person’s ownership of options exercisable within 60 days for 480,200 shares of Class B Common Stock.
 
 
(v)
 
105,775 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the Reporting Person’s ownership of options exercisable within 60 days for 105,775 shares of Class A Common Stock.
 
 
(vi)
 
8,777 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the ownership by certain irrevocable trusts established for the benefit of the Reporting Person’s descendants of 5,868 shares of Series B Preferred Stock and 39,751 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the ownership by these same irrevocable trusts of 39,751 shares of Class B Common Stock. The Reporting Person is the trustee of these irrevocable trusts.
 
2.     Includes 371,224 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the Reporting Person’s ownership of 248,161 shares of restricted Series B Preferred Stock.
 
3.     Includes the following shares:
 
(i)    19,741 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon Anne Solloway’s ownership of 19,741 shares of Class B Common Stock and 21,335 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon Anne Solloway’s ownership of options exercisable within 60 days for 21,335 shares of Class A Common Stock. Anne Solloway


 
is the Reporting Person’s mother, and the Reporting Person has been granted voting and dispositive power as to all shares held by Anne Solloway under a durable family power of attorney;
 
(ii)     93,676 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the ownership of the Alfred R. Camner Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. of 93,676 shares of Class B Common Stock. The Alfred R. Camner Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable foundation of which the Reporting Person and his wife are trustees; and
 
(iii)    39,971 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon the ownership of an irrevocable grantor’s trust (or “rabbi trust”) established by the Company of 26,721 shares of Series B Preferred Stock. The Reporting Person is the sole beneficiary of the rabbi trust.
 
4.     Includes 4,641 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon Anne Camner’s ownership of 3,103 shares of Series B Preferred Stock and 1,914 shares of Class A Common Stock based upon Anne Camner’s ownership of 1,914 shares of Class B Common Stock. Anne Camner is the Reporting Person’s wife, and the Reporting Person has been granted voting power over these shares under a revocable proxy.
 
See Exhibit 1 for information on the Reporting Person’s transactions in the class of securities reported as well as transactions in shares of Class B Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock, both of which are convertible into the class of securities reported.
 
Item 6.     Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer
 
On October 23, 2000, the Board of Directors approved a grant to the Reporting Person under the Company’s 2002 Stock Award and Incentive Plan (the “2002 Plan”), of long-term performance-based compensation in the form of 150,000 restricted shares of Series B Preferred Stock. See Exhibit 1 for details on this grant. The shares, which are subject to being earned by the achievement of performance goals and vesting over a period of twelve years thereafter, will vest immediately in the event of a change in control. In connection with this grant, the Reporting Person has agreed to an amendment to his Employment Agreement that reduces the amount of his parachute payment by one year of salary and bonus, if a change in control occurs within three years of the date of the grant. See Exhibit 2.
 
Item 7.     Material to Be Filed as Exhibits
 
        Exhibit 1
  
Description of transactions in the Company’s stock by the Reporting Person.
Exhibit 2
  
Amendment to Employment Agreement.
 
 


 
Signature.
 
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.
 
Date:    December 16, 2002
 
/s/    Alfred R. Camner

Alfred R. Camner


 
EXHIBIT INDEX
 
Exhibit

  
Description

1
  
Description of transactions in the Company’s stock by the Reporting Person.
2
  
Amendment to Employment Agreement.