Who is Joe Lewis? All you need to know about owner as ENIC confirm £150m investment

[mawspurs]

Joe Lewis is one of the richest men in the UK and runs ENIC who have announced a £150million cash injection into Tottenham ahead of a busy summer transfer window.

The man behind ENIC and Tottenham is Bahamas-based billionaire Joe Lewis, very rarely seen, with Levy the face of the operation at Spurs. But who is Lewis and why has he now decided to pump money into the club after years of not doing so? According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Lewis is worth some £4.285billion - the 43rd richest person in the UK.

Source: Football London

 

[newbie]

Just saw this on the athletic, our transfer pot hopefully is going to be big this summer

 

[ShelfWatcher]

So happy about this. Look forward to more details, but have been wanting this for years from ENIC

 

[Black]

Didnt the fans want this guy to sell up?

 

[Wine Gum]

 

[Wine Gum]

 

[coysjod]

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Glinton Sweeting O’Brien » Service Providers | Bahamas Financial Services Board

P.O. Box N-492 | Nassau, New Providence | The Bahamas

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[Gb160]

Wtf does this all mean in simpleton terms?

 

[thecook]

And how big is this other guy's yacht?

 

[carmeldevil]

Wtf does this all mean in simpleton terms?

We got a new owner! ?

nah looks like someone becomes some sort of registered agent for new trust that owns Lewis share of the team.

 

[carmeldevil]

From Football.London

Tottenham Hotspur have filed changes to its register of 'persons with significant control' which has got fans talking about owner Joe Lewis.

Documents filed by the club with Companies House on Friday became public on Sunday and showed that Joe Lewis, the 85-year-old owner of ENIC which owns the majority of shares in the Premier League club, was to no longer be shown as a 'person with significant control'.

Instead Bryan Antoine Glinton, given an address in the Bahamas on the forms, was filed as the name of the 'individual person with significant control'. That notice signifies someone who "has the right to exercise significant influence or control over the activities of a trust, and the trustees of that trust, hold, directly or indirectly, more than 50% but less than 75% of the shares in the company".

Miami-born Glinton is a 55-year-old lawyer who specialises in corporate law and estate planning and he is a legal advisor to the Tavistock group, founded by Lewis, which owns ENIC and therefore Spurs.

When asked about the change by football.london, a club spokesman said: "Tottenham Hotspur Limited has filed changes to its register of persons with significant control following a reorganisation of the Lewis Family Trusts. The new PSCs of the Company are the officers of the family’s discretionary trust."

football.london understands that the move, which is simply a family trust restructure, does not change anything for Spurs as they have and continue to be owned by Joe Lewis and the family trust and run by chairman Daniel Levy.