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(1) Amount Previously Paid: (2) Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.: (3) Filing Party: (4) Date Filed: 2 [LENNAR CORPORATION LOGO] Seven Hundred N.W. 107th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33172 -- (305) 559-4000 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS APRIL 4, 2000 TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF LENNAR CORPORATION: This is to notify you that the Annual Meeting of the stockholders of Lennar Corporation will be held at the Doral Park Golf and Country Club, 5001 N.W. 104th Avenue, Miami, Florida on Tuesday, April 4, 2000, at 11:00 o'clock a.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, for the following purposes: 1. To elect three directors. The other directors have been elected for terms that expire in subsequent years. 2. To transact any other business which may properly come before the meeting. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on February 22, 2000 will be entitled to notice of or to vote at the meeting or any adjournment of the meeting. Our transfer books will not be closed. If you do not intend to be present at the meeting, please sign and return the enclosed Proxy. If you attend and vote in person, the Proxy will not be used with regard to the matters on which you voted. By Order of the Board of Directors DAVID B. McCAIN Secretary Dated: March 9, 2000 3 PROXY STATEMENT SOLICITATION AND REVOCATION OF PROXY Our management is soliciting the accompanying Proxy. The proxyholders named in the Proxy will vote all shares represented by proxies in the manner designated or, if no designation is made, they will vote the proxies for the proposals presented in this Proxy Statement. They will not vote shares with regard to matters as to which proxies instruct the proxyholders to abstain (or which are marked by brokers to show that specified numbers of shares are not to be voted). WE ARE MAILING THIS PROXY STATEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYING FORM OF PROXY ON OR ABOUT MARCH 9, 2000 TO ALL STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD ON FEBRUARY 22, 2000. If you give a proxy, you may revoke it at any time before it is voted by a written instrument of revocation which we receive at our office at 700 N.W. 107th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33172, or in open meeting, without, however, affecting any vote which has already been taken. Your presence at the meeting will not revoke a proxy, but if you attend the meeting and cast a ballot, that will revoke a proxy as to the matter on which the ballot is cast. COST AND METHOD OF SOLICITATION We will bear the cost of soliciting proxies. We are soliciting proxies by mail and, in addition, our directors, officers and employees may solicit proxies personally or by telephone. We will reimburse custodians, brokerage houses, nominees and other fiduciaries for the cost of sending proxy material to their principals. VOTING RIGHTS AND PROXIES Only stockholders of record at the close of business on February 22, 2000 will be entitled to vote at the meeting. Our only outstanding voting securities on that date were 38,810,618 shares of Common Stock and 9,848,562 shares of Class B Common Stock. Each outstanding share of Common Stock is entitled to one vote. Each outstanding share of Class B Common Stock is entitled to ten votes. You may vote your stock in person or by your signed, written proxy. We will deem any message sent to us prior to the time for voting which appears to have been transmitted by a stockholder, or any reproduction of a proxy, to be sufficient. The death or incapacity of a person who gives a proxy will not revoke the proxy, unless the fiduciary who has control of the shares represented by the proxy notifies us in writing of the death or incapacity. PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS On February 22, 2000, the following persons are the only persons who, insofar as we are aware based upon the most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, owned beneficially more than 5% of any class of our voting securities: AMOUNT AND NATURE OF BENEFICIAL PERCENT OF NAME AND ADDRESS OF BENEFICIAL OWNER TITLE OF CLASS OWNERSHIP CLASS - ------------------------------------ -------------- -------------------- ---------- Leonard Miller Class B Common Stock 9,818,861(l) 99.7% 700 NW 107th Ave. Miami, FL 33172 Warburg, Pincus Investors, L.P. Common Stock 7,076,600(2) 18.2% 466 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017 FMR Corp. Common Stock 7,044,828 18.2% 82 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109-3614 Myron Kaplan Common Stock 4,996,200(3) 12.9% P.O. Box 385 Leonia, NJ 07605 - --------------- (1) Leonard Miller's shares are owned by a limited partnership. A corporation wholly-owned by Mr. Miller is the sole general partner of the partnership. The limited partners consist of Mr. Miller, his wife and a trust of which Mr. Miller is the primary beneficiary. (2) Warburg, Pincus & Co. and E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., LLC are also beneficial owners of the shares owned by Warburg, Pincus Investors, L.P. Warburg, Pincus & Co. may be deemed to own beneficially an additional 156,978 shares of Common Stock held by its asset management affiliate. 4 (3) Consists of 4,917,200 shares owned by Mr. Kaplan and 79,000 shares owned by Kaplan Nathan & Co., L.P., as to which Mr. Kaplan shares voting or dispositive power. On February 22, 2000, The Depository Trust Company owned of record 37,909,209 shares of Common Stock, which was 97.7% of the outstanding Common Stock. We understand those shares were held beneficially for members of the New York Stock Exchange, some of whom may in turn have been holding shares beneficially for customers. Our voting securities which our directors and executive officers owned on February 22, 2000 were as follows: AMOUNT AND NATURE OF BENEFICIAL PERCENT NAME OF BENEFICIAL OWNER TITLE OF CLASS OWNERSHIP(1) OF CLASS ------------------------ -------------------- -------------------- ---------- Leonard Miller Class B Common Stock 9,818,861(2)(3) 99.7% Common Stock 18,306 (6) Irving Bolotin Common Stock 127,642 (6) Bruce E. Gross Common Stock 72,324 (6) Jonathan M. Jaffe Common Stock 91,498 (6) R. Kirk Landon Common Stock 7,900 (6) Sidney Lapidus Common Stock 18,000(4) (6) Reuben S. Leibowitz Common Stock 6,000(4) (6) Stuart A. Miller Common Stock 438,394 1.1% Allan J. Pekor Common Stock 40,706 (6) Arnold P. Rosen Common Stock 2,000 (6) Steven J. Saiontz Common Stock 102,549(5) (6) Directors and Officers as a Group (15 persons) Class B Common Stock 9,818,861 99.7% Common Stock 991,394 2.5% - --------------- (1) Includes currently exercisable stock options and stock options which become exercisable within sixty days after February 22, 2000. Those options include options held by Irving Bolotin relating to 1,000 shares, Bruce E. Gross relating to 30,484 shares, Jonathan M. Jaffe relating to 58,750 shares, R. Kirk Landon relating to 1,000 shares, Sidney Lapidus relating to 2,000 shares, Reuben S. Leibowitz relating to 2,000 shares, Stuart A. Miller relating to 364,500 shares, Allan J. Pekor relating to 29,302 shares, Arnold P. Rosen relating to 2,000 shares, Steven J. Saiontz relating to 2,000 shares, and all directors and executive officers relating to 530,536 shares. Also includes shares held by our Employee Stock Ownership/401(k) Plan for the accounts of the named persons. Additional information about those shares is contained in Note (3) to the Summary Compensation Table. (2) Leonard Miller's shares are owned by a limited partnership. A corporation wholly-owned by Mr. Miller is the sole general partner of the partnership. The limited partners consist of Mr. Miller, his wife and a trust of which Mr. Miller is the primary beneficiary. (3) Stuart A. Miller is the trustee, and Stuart A. Miller and Mr. Saiontz's wife are beneficiaries, of a trust which holds limited partnership interests in a partnership which owns 9,818,861 shares of Class B Common Stock. Because Leonard Miller is the principal beneficiary of the trust and owns the corporation which is the sole general partner of the partnership, Leonard Miller is shown as the beneficial owner of the 9,818,861 shares and neither Stuart A. Miller nor Mr. Saiontz is shown as a beneficial owner of those shares. (4) Does not include 7,076,600 shares held by Warburg, Pincus Investors, L.P., in which Warburg, Pincus & Co. is the general partner. Sidney Lapidus and Reuben S. Leibowitz are partners of Warburg, Pincus & Co. (5) Does not include 9,000 shares held by Mr. Saiontz's wife. (6) Less than 1%. Because each outstanding share of Class B Common Stock is entitled to ten votes, Leonard Miller is entitled to 98,206,916 votes, which is 71.5% of the combined votes which may be cast by all the holders of Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, and all directors and officers as a group are entitled to 98,649,468 votes, which is 71.9% of the combined votes which may be cast by all the holders of Common Stock and Class B Common Stock. 2 5 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Our directors are divided into three classes. The directors serve for terms of three years, and the term of one class of directors expires each year. Our Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws provide that each class will have the highest whole number of directors obtained by dividing the number of directors constituting the whole Board by three, with any additional directors allocated, one to a class, to the classes designated by the Board of Directors. The persons named in the accompanying Proxy will vote for the following three people as our directors to serve until the 2003 Annual Meeting of Stockholders: DIRECTOR TERM NAME OF DIRECTOR AGE SINCE EXPIRES - ---------------- --- -------------- ------------ NOMINATED TO SERVE UNTIL THE 2003 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS Jonathan M. Jaffe 40 1997 2000 Sidney Lapidus 62 1997 2000 Arnold P. Rosen 79 1969 2000 INFORMATION ABOUT DIRECTORS WHOSE TERMS ARE NOT EXPIRING Irving Bolotin 67 1974 2001 R. Kirk Landon 70 1999 2001 Leonard Miller(1) 67 1969 2001 Reuben S. Leibowitz 52 1997 2002 Stuart A. Miller(1) 42 1990 2002 Steven J. Saiontz(1) 41 1990 2002 - --------------- (1) Executive Committee member. Jonathan M. Jaffe has been one of our Vice Presidents since 1994. For more than five years before that, he held executive positions with several of our subsidiaries. Sidney Lapidus has been a Partner of Warburg, Pincus & Co. and a Managing Director of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., LLC (and its predecessor) since 1974 and has been with Warburg Pincus since 1967. Mr. Lapidus currently serves on the boards of directors of Caribiner International, Inc., Four Media Company, Grubb & Ellis Company, Knoll, Inc. and Radio Unica Communications Corp., as well as a number of private companies. Arnold P. Rosen is one of our founders and a founder of our predecessor, F&R Builders, Inc. (which is now Lennar Homes, Inc.). Now retired, Mr. Rosen served as an Executive Vice President from our founding in 1969 until his retirement on December 31, 1977. Irving Bolotin was a Senior Vice President of our Company until he retired on December 31, 1998. He had held that position for more than five years before his retirement. R. Kirk Landon is the President of the Kirk Foundation, President of The ABIG Foundation, Chairman of Innovative Surveillance Technology and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Barry University. From 1974 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Board of American Bankers Insurance Group and from 1991 to 1998, he was a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta/Miami Branch. Leonard Miller is our Chairman of the Board. He is a founder of Lennar, and from our founding in 1969 until April 1997, Mr. Miller was our President and Chief Executive Officer. He is the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, Chairman of South Florida Annenberg Challenge and Chairman of the Board and a Director of Union Bank of Florida. Mr. Miller is the father of Stuart A. Miller and the father-in-law of Steven J. Saiontz. Reuben S. Leibowitz has been a Partner of Warburg, Pincus & Co. and a Managing Director of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., LLC (and its predecessor) since 1984. Prior to 1984, Mr. Leibowitz was a partner at Spicer and Oppenheim, Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Leibowitz currently serves on the boards of directors of Chelsea GCA Realty, Inc. and Grubb & Ellis Company, as well as a number of private companies. 3 6 Stuart A. Miller has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since April 1997. For more than five years prior to that, he was one of our Vice Presidents. He is the Chairman of the Board of LNR Property Corporation, our former wholly-owned subsidiary which we spun-off in October 1997. He is a Director of Union Bank of Florida. Mr. Miller is the son of Leonard Miller and brother-in-law of Steven J. Saiontz. Steven J. Saiontz has been the Chief Executive Officer of LNR Property Corporation since June 1997. For more than five years before that, he was the President of Lennar Financial Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours. He is a Director of Union Bank of Florida. Mr. Saiontz is the son-in-law of Leonard Miller and brother-in-law of Stuart A. Miller. An affiliate of Warburg, Pincus & Co. was a significant stockholder of Pacific Greystone Corporation, a California-based homebuilder that we acquired in a merger on October 31, 1997. In connection with the merger, we agreed that for as long as Warburg Pincus and its affiliates own at least 10% of our common stock of both classes, we will recommend that our stockholders vote for two persons nominated by the Warburg Pincus affiliate for our Board of Directors and Leonard Miller agreed to vote all shares that he or his family partnerships own in favor of those persons. We also agreed that for as long as Warburg Pincus and its affiliates own at least 5% of our common stock of both classes, (i) we will recommend that our stockholders vote for one person nominated by the Warburg Pincus affiliate for our Board of Directors and (ii) any issuance of more than 20% of our outstanding stock in a three year period, or acquisition in a transaction or series of related transactions of assets or properties with a fair market value of more than $100 million (other than acquisitions in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in states in which we operated at the time of the merger), will require the Warburg Pincus affiliate's prior approval. The Warburg Pincus affiliate is currently entitled to designate two directors to the Board of Directors. Messrs. Lapidus and Leibowitz are those designees. The Company has agreed to acquire U.S. Home Corporation, subject to the approval of the stockholders of both companies. The agreement requires that at the time of the transaction, Robert J. Strudler (currently the Chairman of the Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Home), Isaac Heimbinder (currently the President, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Home) and two other members of U.S. Home's Board of Directors designated by U.S. Home, be elected to the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately after the transaction takes place. The term of one of these persons will expire at the 2001 annual meeting, the term of another of them will expire at the 2002 annual meeting, and the terms of the other two of them will expire at the 2003 annual meeting. U.S. Home has the right to designate whose term will expire at each of those meetings. The Company's stockholders are not being asked to vote with regard to the persons required by the agreement with U.S. Home (although Leonard Miller has agreed that if the stockholders were asked to vote with regard to them, he would vote all his shares in favor of them, and therefore, their election would be assured). Instead, as completion of the transaction nears, the Company's Board of Directors will elect the new directors as contemplated by the agreement, subject to the transaction being completed. 4 7 COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS The following table sets forth the annual compensation, long-term compensation and all other compensation for our Chief Executive Officer and for the four additional executive officers who together were our five highest paid executive officers for the year ended November 30, 1999: SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE LONG-TERM COMPENSATION ------------------------------ ANNUAL COMPENSATION AWARDS PAYOUTS ------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- OTHER RESTRICTED ALL ANNUAL STOCK LTIP OTHER SALARY BONUS COMPENSATION AWARDS OPTIONS/ PAYOUTS COMPENSATION NAME AND PRINCIPAL POSITION YEAR ($) (1)($) (2)($) (3)($) SARS ($) (4)($) - --------------------------- ---- ------ ------- ------------ ---------- -------- -------- ------------ Leonard Miller 1999 750,000 -- -- -- -- -- 4,700 Chairman of the Board 1998 750,000 -- -- -- -- -- 9,200 1997 473,100 879,800 -- 1,600 -- -- 6,600 Stuart A. Miller 1999 600,000 2,141,100 -- -- -- -- 6,700 President and Chief 1998 600,000 1,800,900 -- -- -- -- 7,900 Executive Officer 1997 230,800 703,800 -- 1,600 -- -- 5,300 Jonathan M. Jaffe 1999 400,000 1,484,700 -- -- -- -- 6,700 Vice President 1998 400,000 1,500,000 -- -- -- -- 8,100 1997 215,400 450,000 120,300 1,600 -- -- 5,400 Allan J. Pekor 1999 300,000 376,500 -- -- -- -- 6,400 Vice President 1998 300,000 539,500 -- -- -- -- 8,700 1997 288,100 -- -- 1,600 -- -- 5,000 Bruce E. Gross 1999 400,000 155,600 -- -- -- -- 6,400 Vice President and 1998 300,000 225,000 -- -- -- -- 7,100 Chief Financial Officer 1997(5) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - --------------- (1) Annual bonus represents amount earned during the year. Cash payment of a portion of the bonus may be deferred to subsequent years. (2) Consists of relocation related expenses. (3) At November 30, 1999, a total of 206,000 restricted shares of Common Stock, with an aggregate market value of $3,360,375 on that day, were held in employees' accounts under our Employee Stock Ownership/401(k) Plan. All shares in the accounts of employees with more than five years service are vested (184,193 shares at November 30, 1999). Shares in the accounts of other employees become vested at the rate of 20% per year over a five-year period. Holders of both vested and non-vested shares are entitled to the dividends on the shares. The restricted shares outstanding on November 30, 1999 included 9,437 shares in Leonard Miller's account (with a market value on that day of $153,941), 8,064 shares in Stuart A. Miller's account (with a market value on that day of $131,544), 1,159 shares in Jonathan M. Jaffe's account (with a market value on that day of $18,906), and 6,106 shares in Allan J. Pekor's account (with a market value on that day of $99,604). All shares held in these officers' accounts were vested. (4) Consists of matching payments by us under the 401(k) aspect of our Employee Stock Ownership/401(k) Plan, term life insurance premiums and long-term disability insurance premiums paid by us, as follows: LONG-TERM 401(K) TERM LIFE DISABILITY MATCH($) INSURANCE($) INSURANCE($) --------------- ---------------------- ----------------------- Leonard Miller 1999 4,100 200 400 1998 5,000 2,700 1,500 1997 2,400 2,400 1,800 Stuart A. Miller 1999 4,800 1,100 800 1998 4,600 2,700 600 1997 2,400 2,400 500 Jonathan M. Jaffe 1999 4,800 1,100 800 1998 5,000 2,600 500 1997 2,400 2,200 800 Allan J. Pekor 1999 4,800 800 800 1998 5,000 1,900 1,800 1997 2,400 1,300 1,300 Bruce E. Gross 1999 4,800 800 800 1998 5,000 1,700 400 1997(5) -- -- -- (5) Does not include compensation from Pacific Greystone Corporation before we acquired it through a merger on October 31, 1997. 5 8 Directors who are not our employees are paid annual fees of $10,000 plus $2,500 for each board meeting attended in person and $500 for each board meeting in which they participate by conference communications equipment. These directors may elect to postpone payment of such fees until retirement, resignation or death. Directors may elect to make the deferral in cash or shares of Lennar Common Stock. Directors who are not our employees are also granted, as of the date of each annual shareholders' meeting, 1,000 options to purchase Lennar Common Stock at a price equal to the market value of the stock on that date. The options become exercisable on the one year anniversary of the grant date. Directors who are also our employees receive no additional remuneration for services as directors. No options or stock appreciation rights were granted to our Chief Executive Officer or to any of our four additional highest paid executive officers for the fiscal year ended November 30, 1999. The following table sets forth information about option/SAR exercises in the fiscal year ended November 30, 1999 and option/SAR values as of the end of that year for our Chief Executive Officer and our four additional highest paid executive officers: AGGREGATED OPTION/SAR EXERCISES IN LAST FISCAL YEAR AND FISCAL YEAR-END OPTION/SAR VALUES VALUE OF NUMBER OF UNEXERCISED UNEXERCISED IN-THE-MONEY OPTIONS/SARS OPTIONS/SARS AT FISCAL AT FISCAL YEAR-END YEAR-END($)(1) SHARES ---------------- ---------------- ACQUIRED ON VALUE EXERCISABLE(E)/ EXERCISABLE(E)/ NAME EXERCISE REALIZED($) UNEXERCISABLE(U) UNEXERCISABLE(U) ---- --------------- ----------- ---------------- ---------------- Leonard Miller -- -- -- -- Chairman of the Board -- -- Stuart A. Miller -- -- 342,000(E) 2,709,169(E) President and 140,000(U) 824,892(U) Chief Executive Officer Jonathan M. Jaffe -- -- 50,500(E) 118,601(E) Vice President 196,000(U) 379,395(U) Allan J. Pekor -- -- 23,790(E) 106,247(E) Vice President 111,689(U) 562,934(U) Bruce E. Gross -- -- 30,484(E) 100,218(E) Vice President and 40,000(U) -- Chief Financial Officer - --------------- (1) Based upon the difference between the exercise price of the options/SARs and the last reported sale price of the Common Stock on November 30, 1999. INFORMATION REGARDING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Our Board has established an Audit and Nominating Committee, a Compensation Committee, a Stock Option Committee and an Independent Directors Committee. The Audit and Nominating Committee consisted of Messrs. Leibowitz and Rosen through April 14, 1999. After April 14, 1999, Mr. Lapidus was added to the Committee. This Committee met four times during fiscal 1999. Its principal functions are: recommending to the full Board the engagement of independent auditors for the ensuing year, reviewing the scope of non-audit services performed for us by the independent auditors, reviewing the independent auditors' recommendations for improvements of internal controls and reviewing the scope of work, findings and conclusions of our internal audit department. In addition, it reviews possible candidates for election to our Board of Directors. 6 9 The Compensation Committee consisted of Messrs. Leibowitz and Rosen through April 14, 1999. After April 14, 1999, Mr. Landon was added to this Committee. The Compensation Committee met twice during fiscal 1999. Its principal functions are: recommending to the full Board compensation arrangements for senior management and recommending to the full Board the adoption and implementation of compensation and incentive plans. Since April 1998, the Stock Option Committee has consisted of Messrs. Leonard Miller and Stuart Miller. The Stock Option Committee met nine times during fiscal 1999. Its principal functions are: granting options under our stock option plans, setting the terms of these options and administering the stock option plans. In some instances, Stock Option Committee awards of stock options are subject to Board of Directors approval. Our by-laws require that any significant transactions we have with LNR Property Corporation or its subsidiaries, including significant decisions regarding Lennar Land Partners (of which we and LNR each own 50%), be approved by an Independent Directors Committee, which consists entirely of members of our Board who are not directors, officers or employees of LNR. The members of our Independent Directors Committee are Messrs. Lapidus, Leibowitz and Landon (Mr. Landon was elected to the committee in January 1999). The committee met twice during fiscal 1999. Our Board normally holds meetings quarterly, but holds additional special meetings when required. During fiscal 1999, the Board met six times. Each director attended at least three-fourths of the total number of meetings of the Board which were held while he was a director and at least three-fourths of the total number of meetings of all committees of the Board on which he served, with the exception of Mr. Bolotin, who attended two-thirds of the total number of meetings of the Board. REPORT ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors presents this report to describe the compensation policies it applied with regard to our executive officers for fiscal 1999, and the basis for the compensation of Stuart A. Miller, who served as our President and Chief Executive Officer during fiscal 1999. Each year, the Compensation Committee reviews the compensation of each of our employees and each employee of our subsidiaries whose compensation for the previous year exceeded a specified level. This review includes salary for the prior year, the anticipated bonus, if any, for the preceding year (the actual bonus usually has not yet been computed) and the management recommendations as to salary and bonus formulae for the following year (except that there is no management recommendation as to the Chief Executive Officer or the Chairman of the Board). The bonus formulae that our management recommends vary depending on particular employees' positions and other factors. Bonuses for regional and division presidents and people in similar capacities often are a percentage of the profits of the divisions or other business units of which they have charge. We base bonuses of other employees upon various approaches to evaluating their performance. The Compensation Committee almost always accepts our management's recommendation as to all but our highest paid officers. This is because our management is far more familiar than anyone on the Compensation Committee with the individual employees, with prevailing levels of compensation in areas in which particular employees work and with other factors affecting compensation decisions. It is also because our management has primary responsibility for hiring and motivating employees, and for profitability of operations. However, the Compensation Committee believes that its review of the compensation of everyone who has received more than a specified amount per year has helped ensure that management's compensation decisions have been made responsibly, and have promoted our policy of attempting to compensate employees in the mid-range of what is customary for comparable work in applicable geographic areas. The Compensation Committee reviews in greater depth the recommendations of the Chief Executive Officer regarding compensation of our most highly paid executive officers. The review has included both proposed salaries and bonus formulae. 7 10 At its December 1998 and January 1999 meetings, the Compensation Committee reviewed the compensation of Stuart A. Miller, our Chief Executive Officer. The Compensation Committee discussed the contributions Mr. Miller had made as our primary operating officer, and his expected future contribution. The Compensation Committee also reviewed an analysis, abstracted from proxy statements, of the 1997 compensation of senior executive officers of the four homebuilding companies that are viewed as most comparable to us. The committee determined Mr. Miller's compensation with regard to fiscal 1999 to be a base salary of $600,000, plus a bonus equal to 0.75% of our consolidated net income before income taxes during that year. Mr. Miller also received during fiscal year 1999, for serving as Chairman of the Board of LNR Property Corporation, a base salary of $200,000 plus 0.25% of its consolidated net income before income taxes. At its December 1998 and January 1999 meetings, the Compensation Committee also reviewed in detail the compensation recommendations regarding the five most highly paid executive officers. The committee approved, in addition to that of Stuart A. Miller, the compensation of Leonard Miller, Jonathan Jaffe, Bruce E. Gross, and Allan Pekor. That compensation included fixed salaries and bonuses based upon the return generated on the assets employed in the activities supervised by each of those persons. ARNOLD P. ROSEN, Chairman REUBEN S. LEIBOWITZ COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION Arnold P. Rosen, who is the Chairman of our Compensation Committee, was our Executive Vice President until his retirement in 1977. 8 11 PERFORMANCE GRAPH The following graph compares the five-year cumulative total return of our Common Stock, assuming the reinvestment of dividends, with the Dow Jones Equity Market Index and the Dow Jones Home Construction Index: COMPARISON OF FIVE YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN FISCAL YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 30 (1994 = $100) Performance Graph DOW JONES EQUITY MARKET DOW JONES HOME LENNAR CORPORATION INDEX CONSTRUCTION INDEX ------------------ ----------------------- ------------------ 1994 $100.00 $100.00 $100.00 1995 143.00 137.00 164.00 1996 168.00 175.00 154.00 1997 327.00 226.00 235.00 1998 348.00 278.00 232.00 1999 255.00 335.00 163.00 The graph assumes $100 invested on November 30, 1994 in Lennar Common Stock, the Dow Jones Equity Market Index and the Dow Jones Home Construction Index with the reinvestment of all dividends, including the Company's distribution to shareholders of LNR Property Corporation common stock on October 31, 1997. For the purpose of this chart, the LNR distribution is treated as a nontaxable cash dividend that would have been converted to additional Lennar shares. 9 12 OTHER MATTERS Our management does not know of any matters other than those described in this Proxy Statement which will be presented for action at the meeting. If any other matters properly come before the meeting, or any adjournments, the person or persons voting the management proxies will vote them in accordance with their best judgment. AUDITORS Deloitte & Touche LLP audited our financial statements for the year ended November 30, 1999. We expect representatives of that firm to be present at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to answer questions. We will give them an opportunity to make a statement if they wish to do so. The Board of Directors has not at this time selected an accounting firm to audit our financial statements for the year ending November 30, 2000. We will discuss the selection at meetings of the audit committee and of the Board of Directors scheduled for March 2000. STOCKHOLDERS' PROPOSALS FOR NEXT YEAR'S ANNUAL MEETING We must receive proposals that stockholders wish to be included in next year's Proxy Statement at our principal executive offices at 700 N.W. 107th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33172 no later than November 9, 2000. By Order of the Board of Directors DAVID B. McCAIN Secretary Dated: March 9, 2000 10 13 Appendix A [Lennar Corporation Logo] 700 N.W. 107th Avenue Miami, Florida 33172 Proxy for 2000 Annual Meeting This Proxy is Solicited on Behalf of the Board of Directors By signing this proxy, the stockholder of Lennar Corporation appoints Leonard Miller, Stuart A. Miller, David B. McCain, or any one or more of them present, with full power of substitution, as attorneys and proxies of the stockholder to appear at the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of LENNAR CORPORATION to be held at the Doral Park Golf and Country Club, 5001 N.W. 104th Avenue, Miami, Florida on Tuesday, April 4, 2000, and at any and all adjournments of that meeting, and to act for the stockholder and vote all shares of Common Stock of LENNAR CORPORATION standing in the name of the stockholder, with all the powers the stockholder would possess if personally present at the meeting, as follows on the reverse side. SEE REVERSE SIDE SEE REVERSE SIDE (CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED ON REVERSE SIDE) 14 [X] Please mark votes as in this example. The Board of Directors solicits this proxy. This proxy when properly executed will be voted in the manner directed. If no direction is made, this proxy will be voted for all the listed nominees for election of directors. 1. Election of Directors: 2. In their discretion the Proxies are authorized to vote upon Nominees: (01) Jonathan M. Jaffe, (02) Sidney Lapidus and such other business as may properly come before the (03) Arnold P. Rosen meeting. FOR WITHHELD ALL [ ] [ ] FROM ALL NOMINEES NOMINEES [ ] ______________________________________ For all nominees except as noted above MARK HERE FOR ADDRESS CHANGE AND NOTE AT LEFT [ ] PLEASE MARK, SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THE PROXY CARD PROMPTLY, USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE. Please sign exactly as name appears at left. When shares are held by joint tenants, both should sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian, please give your title. If a corporation, please sign in full corporate name by President or other authorized officer. If a partnership, please sign in partnership name by an authorized person. Signature: _____________________________ Date: ____________________ Signature: __________________________ Date:__________________ 15 [Lennar Corporation Logo] 700 N.W. 107th Avenue Miami, Florida 33172 Proxy for 2000 Annual Meeting This Proxy is Solicited on Behalf of the Board of Directors By signing this proxy, the stockholder of Lennar Corporation appoints Leonard Miller, Stuart A. Miller, David B. McCain, or any one or more of them present, with full power of substitution, as attorneys and proxies of the stockholder to appear at the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of LENNAR CORPORATION to be held at the Doral Park Golf and Country Club, 5001 N.W. 104th Avenue, Miami, Florida on Tuesday, April 4, 2000, and at any and all adjournments of that meeting, and to act for the stockholder and vote all shares of Class B Common Stock of LENNAR CORPORATION standing in the name of the stockholder, with all the powers the stockholder would possess if personally present at the meeting, as follows on the reverse side. SEE REVERSE SIDE SEE REVERSE SIDE (CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED ON REVERSE SIDE) 16 [X] Please mark votes as in this example. The Board of Directors solicits this proxy. This proxy when properly executed will be voted in the manner directed. If no direction is made, this proxy will be voted for all the listed nominees for election of directors. 1. Election of Directors: 2. In their discretion the Proxies are authorized to vote upon Nominees: (01) Jonathan M. Jaffe, (02) Sidney Lapidus and such other business as may properly come before the (03) Arnold P. Rosen meeting. FOR WITHHELD ALL [ ] [ ] FROM ALL NOMINEES NOMINEES [ ] ______________________________________ For all nominees except as noted above MARK HERE FOR ADDRESS CHANGE AND NOTE AT LEFT [ ] PLEASE MARK, SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THE PROXY CARD PROMPTLY, USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE. Please sign exactly as name appears at left. When shares are held by joint tenants, both should sign. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian, please give your title. If a corporation, please sign in full corporate name by President or other authorized officer. If a partnership, please sign in partnership name by an authorized person. Signature: _____________________________ Date: ____________________ Signature: __________________________ Date:__________________