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TRIGGER WARNING : I think it almost goes without saying now that '2013' is very emotional
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1983 - "Beat It" is certified Gold by the RIAA.
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1996 - While still in Monaco from the World Music Awards, Michael goes shopping at Nuggets record Store
https://youtu.be/ZO_o94VJECg
2000 - Michael checks into the Hotel de Paris, for the upcoming World Music Awards, suffering from exhaustion. Michael writes a handwritten note on a business card from the hotel manager,Guy Planchette. Planchette's message to MJ was crossed out with Michael responding in kind, "I'm very sick now a doctor is coming. I must sleep, please understand -MJ"
The note was sold by Julien's Auctions for $3,200 at their 2011 "Icons & Idols Rock "N" Roll & Sports" auction.
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2003 - Michael files a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claimimg Universal improperly sold or licensed music he and Jackson 5 recorded in the early 1970s for Motown Records, which the Vivendi Universal music unit now owns. The suit seeks unspecified damages, an accounting of owed royalties & ownership of the Jacksons' Motown master recordings
2005 - Trial Day 48. Week 11 Begins
Michael goes to court with Katherine, Joe & Jermaine
A string of both former & current employees testified for the defense on to partly counteract claims made by a parade of former employees that testified earlier in the trial for the prosecution, and also refute allegations made by Jackson's current accuser and family.
Former ranch employee, Francine Contreras, said that while working closely with fellow former employee Adrian McManus, she never heard the woman ever speak ill about Jackson, although McManus testified for the prosecution and claimed she saw the singer inappropriately touch actor McCauley Culkin.
Contreras did not directly address that testimony by McManus, she did cast doubt on McManus' character revealing the woman to have stolen many items from the ranch including items of clothing, hats, watches which are displayed at her home. The witness also claimed that McManus had stolen toys from the ranch that were bought as gifts for under privileged children visiting
Violet Silva, a current Neverland employee working at the ranch since 1991 & chief of security since 1997 testified that, "The emphasis at Neverland was on hospitality. That was our primary duty, to make them feel welcome"
Silva, although stated she had minimal contact with Jackson's current accuser's mother, claimed that the woman's behavior was at times not short of unusual. She said that it was the sister who took care of the two younger boys, reminding them to take showers and be neat.
Silva said she did not know of any children drinking alcohol or appearing intoxicated at the ranch. She said liquor was kept in the ranch wine cellar, which was locked. The accuser and his siblings have claimed they were served wine in the cellar.
The Neverland security chief described the accuser and his brother as "rambunctious."
"They were pretty reckless," she said. "They'd get in a ranch vehicle and we had to stop them. They were young. They couldn't drive.... They were pretty destructive."
Speaking of a 2/19/03 directive that was logged in at the ranch asking the accuser & his brother not to leave the ranch, Silva stated it was only without adult supervision that they were not to leave & not because they were held against their will
During cross-examination, DA Sneddon asked Silva if she had told an investigator that as a mother she wouldn't want her children to participate in activities at Neverland.
Silva, who has daughters and granddaughters, acknowledged saying that.
Under redirect questioning by Jackson attorney Robert Sanger, she said she would bring her children for "family fun day" but not other times.
"Some of the activity was beyond my comfort level," she said without explanation.
Joe Marcus, the ranch manager at Neverland, took the stand to refute a string of allegations made by Gavin & his family. Marcus who has been employed at the ranch for the last 18 years testified that he had never witnessed Jackson act inappropriately around children or anyone that would warrant him to report an illegal act to authorities.
Despite an animated testimony made by the accuser's mother, where she claimed to be held against her will at Neverland and was speaking in codes, plotting means to escape the hands of an evil predator who held her and her family locked behind a sprawling ranch, Joe Marcus said that the family members "were excited to be there" and when he would take them out on shopping trips and to the dentist they were anxious to get back to Neverland.
"Did she ever complain to you about anything?" defense lawyer Robert Sanger asked.
"Never," said Marcus.
The ranch manager testified that during the time he took the family out for a shopping trip, he remained in the car where the family wandered around the shopping center for about an hour.
Sanger asked if there was ever a time during that shopping trip & others when the mother was followed by a "positive PR film crew," something she described on the witness stand.
"Not to my knowledge," Marcus said.
He said he met the family one day at an orthodontist's office where the accuser & his brother went to have work done on their teeth. He said it was raining and he found the family anxious to get back in the car and return to Neverland when the appointment was over.
The mother has said she made up dental needs as a ruse to try to escape.
Marcus and other witnesses gave the jurors colorful descriptions of Neverland, which they have only seen in photos. The judge refused a request early in the case to have jurors visit the ranch.
Marcus told of improvements Jackson made, including the rides, theater, zoo, train depot & water attractions.
Marcus stated that he & other ranch employees remembered the accuser and his family to be sympathetic guests initially when Gavin was recovering from cancer but when they had returned a year later the employees said the boys were rambunctious and destructive and got into trouble, crashing golf carts and trying to drive ranch vehicles.
Jackson left the court hastily after the day's testimony and his spokeswoman, Raymone K. Bain said he was in pain from a persistent back problem.
"He's very physically tired. His back is not doing well. He was uncomfortable in court," she said.
Bain said that Jackson's spirits remain high because of his defense team's efforts but that the trial in general has made him unhappy.
"It's very difficult to come in and hear these things said about you," she said. "None of this helps his image. We're looking forward to his being vindicated."
She said Jackson "wants this to end so he can go on with his life. He wants to get back to what he does, making people happy."
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Court Transcript
2013 - Jackson v AEG Trial. Day 8
Katherine Jackson was in court.
Karen Faye Testimony
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Jackson direct
Karen Faye,MJ's long time Hair and Makeup artist takes the stand. Faye starts out by listing some of her famous clients, including Michael Jackson, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening & Smokey Robinson
Faye spends several minutes describing what she does. She talks about having to get close to someone when she's doing their hair & makeup.
She says her relationship with MJ grew over the 27 years she worked with him to a brother and sister relationship. Faye and Jackson became "very close" starting in the early 1980s, she said. "It was almost like a brother and sister relationship. If I was having trouble, I could call him and he could call me. You talk, you share, you become very close, and imagine that over 27 years"
Faye spent about 90 minutes testifying about her close relationship with Jackson, who hosted her wedding at his Neverland Ranch & enlisted her to travel around the world with him. She breezily described Jackson's meetings with Princess Diana & other dignitaries, his Super Bowl performance, and other larger than life moments from his life. Jurors and spectators laughed at times as a parade of photos and videos shot during his performances were played. "I was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was just very normal," she told jurors. "I found myself working with this magical person." She said Michael was like a brother to her. Even after she gave birth to her daughter, he enlisted her for another tour."I said, 'I can't go all around the world with you. I'm a mother now,'" Faye recalled."Michael never took no for an answer. 'Yes you can, it'll be great for her,'" she recalled him saying
She's asked about the 1984 Pepsi commercial accident. She says she worked with Michael after that to mask his injuries.
Jackson's scalp was badly burned, she tells the jury. "I had to figure out, along with him, how to hide his injury"
Panish asks Faye to describe Michael: "He was a gentleman. He was elegant. He was brilliant", she says as she starts to break down. After a couple more questions, Faye starts to cry. She gets emotional describing his creativity & relationship with his fans
The jury is shown a photo of Jackson doing Faye's makeup, brush touching her face. Panish asks her how Jackson did, "I didn't like it at the time, but now that I look at it, I looked pretty good", Faye says of Jackson's makeup job. The room breaks out into laughter
Panish next shows Faye & the jury photos of just Jackson where she did his hair and makeup. One of images is an Annie Leibovitz shot for Vanity Fair. "Who's Annie Leibovitz?", Panish asks. "Really?". Faye responds. There's laughter. Panish in a continuation of his self-deprecating questioning responds to her Leibovitz quip, "Hey, I don't get out that much"
One picture shows MJ with tape on his fingers...Karen explains that it was a trick to get the audience to follow his hands. She says she knew he couldn't wear the glove forever
Lots of photos are shown, including a smoky image of Michael standing on tippy-toes. Debate ensues over what brand the shoes are. Panish asks if they're Air Jordans. "No", Faye responds. Judge names another brand. "Nope", Faye says. Faye says fans in the courtroom would know the brand of shoes. Before Panish can stop them, two or three voices call out,"LA Gear!"
Jurors viewed a series of photos of Faye & Jackson together through the years, including one taken in January 1996, the day after Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce. Michael was upset because just before filing, Presley called him and begged him not to file for divorce, she said."She begged & begged, saying please don't file," Faye said. Jackson promised not to file, only to see "the next morning it was all over the press that she filed before him." The photo of Jackson out with Faye "was to give the press something to talk about" with Faye being "the mysterious blonde." "Lisa Marie Presley was calling Michael the day before (the photo) was shot, begging him not to divorce," she testified. "So he promised her he wouldn't file for divorce. But the next morning, it was all over the press she had gone ahead and filed. He was devastated"
Panish moves to videos of Jackson performances. He starts off with a performance of "Man in the Mirror" in Bucharest from the Dangerous tour. In the video, fans are screaming, some being carted out on stretchers. Panish asks Faye if this is common for a Jackson concert. Faye: "You obviously have not seen a Michael Jackson concert in your life" Panish: "I'm not answering that. I get to ask the questions"
Part of his 1993 Super Bowl halftime show was viewed, including his rendition of "We Are the World" and "Earth Song." "It was a very big deal, sir," Faye said. "I think it started the trend of having a big artist at the Super Bowl"
They viewed several minutes of Jackson's "Thriller," which Faye pointed out was a short film, not just a music video. A clip from a concert in Bucharest, Romania showed jurors how fanatical his fans were, dozens of them fainting as he sang "Man In the Mirror." When his 1995 MTV awards performance was shown, Faye noted, "He can moonwalk in a circle."Jackson's stamina during a show was remarkable, she said. "Some dancers would pass out, but Michael would be fine. He was able to do it."
Faye tells the jury she was responsible for keeping Jackson hydrated during shows. She says she's never seen another performer like MJ. "Michael would do five songs to the dancers' one. I never saw anything like it", Faye says of Jackson's performances.
A vintage video of Michael Jackson's hair catching on fire during the third take of a 1983 Pepsi commercial was played for jurors as a Karen Faye testified about the devastating migraine headaches he endured because of the injuries.
"I never saw anything like that in my life," Karen Faye testified. "This was someone I knew and he was on fire"
"His hair caught fire, but he kept dancing," she said, as jurors watched the infamous video of pyrotechnics igniting Jackson's head as he danced down stairs on a stage. "I was screaming and Miko (Brando) got through somehow and had to wrestle him to the ground, because he had no idea he was on fire. Miko put the fire out with his hand."The fire burned off a section of hair, which doctors tried to repair with surgery to stretch his scalp, she said. Michael suffered migraine headaches after that
Instead of suing Pepsi, she said, Jackson asked Pepsi to build a burn center at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City where he was treated. "Everybody thought he'd sue Pepsi because it was a mistake," she said
Later, a bridge suspended above a stage collapsed as Jackson danced on top of it during a show in Munich, Germany causing him to fall three or four stories, she said."When I saw what happened, I thought he could be dead," Faye testified. But Jackson held onto his microphone, stood up and finished the song. "He said 'I can't disappoint the audience,'" she said. So he finished the show finale but collapsed in the dressing room when it was over, she said. "He suffered back pain from that moment on," she said
The fall, she said, left Jackson with back pain that flared when he was under physical or emotional stress
Michael "was so buzzed by his own adrenaline after a show" it would "take him 24 hours to relax his body and, sometimes it would take two days to be able to sleep," said Faye. "As the tour went on, shows got closer and closer, and he would have trouble sleeping," she said. "It would start out OK, but it would get worse and worse. He tried to find ways to deal with it."Dealing with it involved a series of doctors, she said.
"Michael always believed that a doctor had his best interest at heart," Faye said. "He believed if he got something through a doctor that it was safe and OK for him to use it."
She says Jackson trusted the advice of doctors to help him sleep and deal with pain from injuries and performances
He was doing a short film for the Adams Family and suffering pain because of scalp surgery. Debbie Rowe would come with pain meds.
Faye says during the Dangerous tour, promoters asked that she give Michael injections of pain medications, but she refused. She says a tour manager who later became a top AEG executive then enlisted a doctor to treat him
That Pepsi burn touched off Jackson's reliance on painkillers, though Faye said she really didn't grasp it until his Dangerous tour in 1992-93. Faye said there were always two doctors around on that tour, willing and able to give him as many painkillers as necessary.
"I came to learn there was a balance of medication",Faye said."They [medication] had to be strong enough to overcome Michael's pain but not so strong that he couldn't perform"
"Debbie Rowe asked me to learn how to give injections," she said. "I thought about it and said 'No.' I am not qualified to handle any kind of medications"
Despite being asked by tour promoters, Faye said she refused to give him injections for pain. She said Paul Gongaware, a promoter who later became a top executive with AEG Live LLC, then brought in doctors who treated Jackson in 1993 on his "Dangerous" tour, which she told jurors had to be halted early due to the singer's prescription drug addiction.
When the tour was on its way to Bangkok, Thailand, Faye was asked to carry a package she was told contained medicine patches for Jackson's pain, she testified. She refused to travel with it, she said.Faye testified that the tour doctor -- Dr. Stuart Finkelstein -- later told her "I'm glad you weren't carrying it. It has vials and syringes. If you had brought this in, you might not be here." The implication was she could have been arrested for smuggling drugs. Gongaware, now the Co-CEO of AEG Live, was in charge of logistics for the Dangerous tour and was involved in the incident, Faye said.
In Singapore she saw MJ stumbling and fell into a tree in his dressing room. She was afraid for him and told the Doctor. She told the doctor he couldn't go on in that condition but the Doctor said he could go on. She was afraid for his life.
In Singapore she saw MJ stumbling and fall into a tree in his dressing room. She was afraid for his life
Faye testified that while backstage, she turned to someone she knew as Dr David Forecast & urged him not to let the wobbly Jackson take the stage.
His show opened with him being thrust onto the stage by a "toaster," which requires him to "curl up and be shot up" from a small enclosure under the stage, she said. "His arm could be severed," Faye said. "I feared for his safety, I feared for his life. I put my arm around Michael and told Dr. Forecast 'You can't make him go out. You can't take him.' And he said 'Yes, I can.'"
The doctor "backed me up against the wall and put his hands around my neck and said 'You don't know what you're doing,'" she testified. "I nearly fainted, and he grabbed Michael and took him to the stage."
She said Dr. Forecast marched a disoriented Jackson to the stage, but the concert was cancelled nonetheless
Faye said she never witnessed the singer's treatments, but he appeared to become more dependent on prescription drugs in the years following the Dangerous tour. She said she worried every time she saw a doctor arrive to treat him."I was always worried that Michael was in pain," Faye said under questioning by Brian Panish. She said Michael had a low pain tolerance except while performing
MJ was on tour when the first allegations hit the papers in 1993. He was under a lot of stress. The world thought he was a pedophile. That tour ended when Elizabeth Taylor came to Mexico City to accompany him to a rehab facility outside of London ."Everyone knew Michael had a problem," Faye said.
"We all went home", said Faye who later flew to England to join Michael at the rehab facility, which she described as a beautiful country home.
Faye also recalled how Jackson's reliance on medications coincided with the first time he was accused of child molestation in the early 1990s."Michael had to go on stage every night knowing that the whole world thought he was a pedophile," Faye said, shaking her head and crying.
Faye also recalled an odd incident before his Madison Square Garden performance in 2001. When she went to his hotel room to make up his face before a show, Faye testified that a doctor stopped her and said: "'I just gave Michael a shot, he's going to be asleep for the next five or six hours', I said 'that can't be, he's set to perform'"
She eventually got into his room, woke him up and fed him bagels to keep him awake & ready to perform
The media put Michael Jackson "on display" during his trial, Faye said, wiping tears. During that trial, he would wake, play classical music, watch 3 Stooges, anything that made him happy- before heading to court. Michael took care of his hair and dress but couldn't eat and lost weight, Karen said.
She was with him during the trial. She would do his hair and makeup for the "red carpet" at the courthouse. She would go to Neverland each morning before daybreak to help him wash and dress, she said. "I wanted people to think he still looked good and was still strong," she testified.
"I'd wash his hair in the shampoo bowl (and) blow it dry"They would get on their knees and pray, then hug each other and cry. While Michael tried to be brave, "he couldn't eat. He was afraid", she testified. "The pain got worse. He got thinner. " He wouldn't eat or drink during the trial for fear he had to go to the bathroom; one of the guards would have to escort him. He was too shy.
She said it was a particularly difficult time for him. "He was losing weight," she said. "He couldn't eat because he didn't want to throw up because he had to watch all these people he loved & cared about tell all those lies." He also refused to drink in the mornings because he hated using the courtroom bathroom, she said.
He eventually got so frail that one morning he fell and had to go to the hospital, she said. That event led to the infamous 'pajama' incident, in which he arrived at court in his nightclothes because a judge threatened to send him to jail if he didn't appear immediately.
"There was no time (to change him)," she said, crying and dabbing tears with a tissue. "He went into court without his hair done in his pajamas"
Although he was acquitted, the pressure of the case and media attention took its toll, she told jurors."He couldn't eat," she said. "He was afraid. He was in pain. He got thinner. His physical pain, his back pain, it all kicked in."
Karen Faye said MJ asked her to be on the This is It tour and she said "yes". Panish asks who Faye negotiated with. She says AEG executive Paul Gongaware negotiated her rate to work on tour. Gongaware signed Karen Faye's contract, which was finalized in May of 2009. She was with Jackson a lot during This Is It preparations.
Faye, said she was concerned when she first saw the schedule for Jackson's 50 This Is It shows at London's O2 arena. "On looking at that, I said, 'He can't do this,'" Faye testified. "The shows are far too close together. I knew what he needed between shows. I thought he might last a week." When she raised the matter with show director Kenny Ortega, "he kind of fluffed it off," she said. "Michael's adrenaline and what it takes for him to perform with that much effort and what he himself puts into a show, he needed a lot more time to at least get some rest and sleep, and to be healthy and maintain that kind of longevity," she said.
Panish asked Faye whether Jackson ever expressed concerns about the This Is It production. She says "yes", but AEG objects. The attorneys went into a lengthy sidebar on whether Faye can tell the jury what Jackson's concerns were. AEG argued it's hearsay. Jackson attorneys had to tell Faye not to automatically say what other people told her, especially if AEG objected.
Faye testified that MJ wanted to do the tour for his children. They had never seen him perform. He also wanted to do it for his fans
Michael appeared "very, very excited" in early production meetings, but "the first time he actually got up on stage and rehearsed, I saw the change in him.""The turning point was when he had to get up on stage and actually start performing," she said
She said MJ's skin was very dry, his eyes were dry, he was losing weight & he kept repeating himself
She testified that MJ was showing signs of paranoia. That he had to see her when he was on stage always. He would repeat over and over
She had concerns and expressed those concerns to Kenny Ortega.
Jackson tried to avoid rehearsing for This Is It. Eventually, "they had to make him rehearse," she said. "They're insisting to the point of going to his home"
She said Director Kenny Ortega and AEG CEO Randy Phillips insisted MJ rehearse. AEG executives continued to push Jackson, Faye said. She testified she overheard a phone conversation in which Gongaware told Jackson's assistant to get him out of a locked bathroom and to a rehearsal. He had locked himself in a bathroom at his home, refusing to leave for rehearsals. Faye described Gongaware, AEG Live's co-CEO, as "angry and kind of desperate" "Do you have a key? Do whatever it takes," she said Gongaware screamed.
After a meeting between MJ, Ortega, and Phillips, Faye was told not to follow MJ's instructions anymore. She should show tough love. She said that after Jackson missed several rehearsals, Phillips told her to ignore his instructions.
She became more concerned for Michael's health in the last few days. She forwarded several emails to producers and included her own concerns. Faye testified that Phillips told her at Jackson's funeral that "he tried to do everything he could."Did she believe him, Panish asked. "Sir, Michael Jackson is lying in a casket only a few feet away from me," she said. "I had no words to respond. That's not everything you can do"
She said Jackson was frustrated and after a costume fitting days before his death repeatedly asked her, "Why can't I choose?"
Faye, choking back tears, read portions of an email from one of Jackson's fans that she forwarded to his now deceased manager, Frank Dileo. It described the singer as a skeleton."If we do nothing, he will die," the fan wrote. "I know people who work for him cannot tell him anything. I know his own family tried to help him but he won't listen."Faye said she wrote Dileo that she agreed with the assessment, but the manager never responded in writing. By this point, Jackson was often cold to the touch and was becoming increasingly paranoid. Faye said he became obsessed with her being within sight when he was rehearsing onstage.
Michael appeared paranoid, repeating himself and shivering from chills in his final days, Karen Faye testified. "This was not the man I knew," Karen Faye testified. "He was acting like a person I didn't recognize."
At a rehearsal in mid-June, Jackson was talking to himself, she said. "When I was around, he was repeating himself an awful lot, saying the same thing over and over again."
Faye, who had to touch Jackson when she put on his makeup, said it was "like I was touching ice." At one rehearsal, she covered him with blankets and put a space heater next to him, she said
Faye said she raised her concerns once in June with AEG CEO Randy Phillips. He told her, "Yeah, this is bad. It's not so good. I had to scrape Michael off the floor in London at the announcement because he was so drunk," she said
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Nicholas H. Adler(7) ​​​​—​​​​​*%​​
Jerry L Hutter(8) ​​​​—​​​​​*%​​
Pai Liu(4)(9) ​​​​—​​​​​*%​​
Jun Liu(4)(10) ​​​​—​​​​​*%​​
Yukman Lau(4)(11) ​​​​—​​​​​*%​​
All directors and executive officers as a group ​​​​1,250,000​​​​​47.6%​​https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1743858/000110465921002548/tm2037159-2_prer14a.htm
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20210129G53702109LNFA91188L&F ACQUISITION CORP CL A SHS 10.14
20210129G53702117LNFAWS72657L&F ACQUISITION CORP WT EXP 051.56
Five Percent Holders
Corbin Capital Partners GP, LLC(2) 1,485,000 8.6% 6.9%
Citadel Advisors LLC(3) ​880,289 ​5.1% 4.1%
Sculptor Capital LP(4) 914,095 ​​5.3% ​​​​​​4.2%
JAR Sponsor LLC (5)​​​ 4,202,767 97.5% 19.5%
Directors and Officers of L&FJeffrey C. Hammes(5) 4,202,767 ​97.5% 19.5%
Adam Gerchen(5)​​ 4,202,767​ 97.5% 19.5%
Richard Levy(5) ​4,202,767​​ 97.5% 19.5%
Tom Gazdziak
Senator Joseph Lieberman 50,000
​Albert Goldstein 20,000
Kurt Summers 39,733
All directors and officers as a group (seven individuals) 4,213,500 ​​100% ​​20.0%
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1823575/000114036122014036/ny20003599x2_def14a.htm
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20210129G49392106IACA138124ION ACQUISITION CORP 1 LTD13.10
20210129G49392114IACAWS68286ION ACQUISITION CORP 1 LTD WT 3.81
ION Holdings 1, LP(2) 5,133,038(3)(4) 89.27% 4,454,663(4) 17.82%
ION Co-Investment LLC(5) 541,962(3)(4) 9.43% 470,337(4) 1.88%
Jonathan Kolber
Gilad Shany
Avrom Gilbert
Anthony Reich
Gabriel Seligsohn 25,000(3)(4) 25,000(3)(4)
Rinat Gazit 25,000(3)(4) 25,000(3)(4)
Lior Shemesh 25,000(3)(4) 25,000(3)(4)
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group (seven individuals) 75,000 1.3% 75,000
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1821018/000121390020029396/fs12020a2_ionacquicorp1.htm
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20210129G50740102SPFR171651JAWS SPITFIRE ACQUISITION CORP10.55
20210129G50740110SPFRWS44053JAWS SPITFIRE ACQUISITION CORP2.63
Spitfire Sponsor LLC ​​8,550,000​​​​​19.8%​​​​​8,550,000​​​​​4.3%​​​​​8,550,000​​​​​4.6%​​
Barry S. Sternlicht(5) ​​​​8,550,000​​​​​19.8%​​​​​8,550,000​​​​​4.3%​​​​​8,550,000​​​​​4.6%​​
Matthew Walters ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​
Michael Racich ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​
Andy Appelbaum ​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​
Mark Vallely ​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​
Serena Williams ​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​​​​25,000​​​​​*​​
All directors and officers prior to the Business Combination (six persons) ​​​​8,625,000​​​​​20.0%​​​​​8,625,000​​​​​4.3%​​​​​8,625,000​​​​​4.6%​​
Director and officers after the Business Combination:
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Benyamin Buller(6) ​​—​​​​​—​​​​​6,655,159​​​​​3.3%​​​​​6,655,159​​​​​3.6%​​
William McCombe ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​
Renette Youssef ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—​​
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1825079/000110465921113849/tm2115676-24_424b3.htm#fBOOS
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20210129G4771L105IIAC229962INVESTINDUSTRIAL ACQUISITION C10.35
20210129G4771L113IIACWS76251INVESTINDUSTRIAL ACQUISITION C1.32
Investindustrial Acquisition Corp., L.P.(3) 10,062,500 8,750,000 100.0% 20.0%
Roberto Ardagna(4)
Andrea Cicero(4)
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group ( individuals)10,062,500 8,750,000 100.0% 20.0%
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1825042/000119312520268579/d73797ds1.htm
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20210129G46044106HZON11756HORIZON ACQUISITION CORP II10.72
Horizon II Sponsor, LLC(3) ​​14,375,000​​​​​12,500,000​​​​​100.0%​​​​​20.0%​​
Todd L. Boehly(3) ​​​​14,375,000​​​​​12,500,000​​​​​100.0%​​​​​20.0%​​
Jason Robins(4) ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—%​​​​​—%​​
Asif Satchu(4) ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—%​​​​​—%​​
Modi Wiczlyk(4) ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—%​​​​​—%​​
Carlton McMillen ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—%​​​​​—%​​
Robert Ott ​​​​—​​​​​—​​​​​—%​​​​​—%​​
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group (6 individuals) ​​​​14,375,000​​​​​12,500,000​​​​​100.0%​​​​​20.0%​​https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1821788/000110465920116794/tm2030120-10_424b4.htm
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20210129G44898107HIGA17110H. I. G. ACQUISITION CORP ORD 10.33
H.I.G. Acquisition Advisors II, LLC (our sponsor) 8,625,000 (3)(4) 100% 20.0%
Brian Schwartz 8,625,000 (3)(4) 100% 20.0%
Rob Wolfson 8,625,000 (3)(4) 100% 20.0%
Timur Akazhanaov — — —
Richard Siegel — — —
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group (individuals) 8,625,000 100% 20.0% https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1850311/000119312521081572/d146691ds1.htm
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20210129G44125105HCAQ124962HEALTHCOR CATALIO ACQUISITION 10.19
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1833769/000110465921144010/tm2121883-32_424b3.htm
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20210129G38245109GNPK148765GENESIS PK ACQUISITION CORP OR10.66
20210129G38245125GNPKWS70388GENESIS PK ACQUISITION CORP WT1.53
Genesis Park Holdings(3)5,750,000 100.0% 5,000,000 20.0%
Jonathan E. Baliff— — — —
David Bilger— — — —
Thomas Dan Friedkin— — — —
Paul W. Hobby— — — —
Andrea Fischer Newman— — — —
David N. Siegel— — — —
Wayne Gilbert West — — — —
Richard H. Anderson — — — —
All executive officers and directors as a group (eight individuals) 5,750,000 100.0% 5,000,000 20.0%
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1819810/000119312520254680/d48359ds1.htm
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20210129G36427113FCAXU80457FORTRESS CAP ACQUISITION10.42
Fortress Capital Acquisition Sponsor LLC(3) 9,950,000 99.5% 19.8%
Michael Nierenberg — — —
Daniel N. Bass — — —
Varun Wadhawan — — —
Debra Coleman 25,000 * *
Elizabeth Fascitelli 25,000 * *
All directors, officers and director nominees as a group (5 individuals) 10,000,000 100% 20% https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1823733/000119312521009135/d90960d424b4.htm
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20210129G3312L103FPAC46122FAR PEAK ACQUISITION CORP CL A10.37
David W. Bonanno(2)(4)(5) — — — — —
Thomas W. Farley(2)(4)(5) — 9,540,000(3) — 97.8% 13.7%
Stanley A. McChrystal — 70,000 — * *
Nicole Seligman — 70,000 — * *
Charles Vice — 70,000 — * *
All directors and executive officers as a group (5 individuals (5) — 9,750,000 — 100% 14.0%
Far Peak LLC (FPAC’s sponsor) — 9,540,000(3) — 97.8% 13.7%
Park West Asset Management LLC and Peter S. Park 5,086,825(6) — 8.5% — 7.3%
UBS O’Connor LLC 3,886,068(7) — 6.5% — 5.6%
Citadel Advisors LLC 3,512,732(8) — 5.9% — 5.0% https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1829426/000119312522241817/d180840dprer14a.htm
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20210129G2040C104CTAC330301CERBERUS TELECOM ACQUISITION10.52
20210129G2040C120CTACWS71639CERBERUS TELECOM ACQUISITION1.58
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1824577/000119312521246270/d166461ddefr14a.htm
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20210129G1739V100BSN19808BROADSTONE ACQUISITION CORP10.12
Broadstone Sponsor LLP (the Sponsor)(3) ​​​​7,632,575​​​​​20.0%​​
Xercise2 Ltd.(3) ​​​​2,147,953​​​​​5.6%​​
Overway Capital Ltd.(3) ​​​​2,088,090​​​​​5.5%​​
Hugh Osmond(3) ​​​​2,147,953​​​​​5.6%​​
Marc Jonas(3) ​​​​2,088,090​​​​​5.5%​​
Edward Hawkes(3) ​​​​2,088,090​​​​​5.5%​​
Ian Cormack ​​​​85,519​​​​​*​​
Rory Cullinan ​​​​85,519​​​​​*​​
Philip Bassett ​​​​85,519​​​​​*​​
The Baupost Group, L.L.C.(4) ​​​​2,970,000​​​​​7.8%​​
Glazer Capital, LLC(5 )​​​​2,526,003​​​​​6.6%​​
Periscope Capital Inc.(6)​​​​1,950,500​​​​​5.1%​​
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group (six individuals)​​​​7,632,575​​​​​ 20.0%​​https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1867102/000110465921145446/tm2119416-36_424b3.htm
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20210129G0682V109AVAN211386AVANTI ACQUISITION CORP CL A10.26
20210129G0682V125AVANWS62673AVANTI ACQUISITION CORP RED WT1.78
Avanti Acquisition SCSp (our sponsor)14,375,000(3)(4) 100% 20.0%
Nassef Sawiris— (5) — —
Colin Hall— (5) — —
Johann Dumas— (5) — —
Brent Hoberman— — —
Sophie Krishnan— — —
Roberto Mignone— — —
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group(six individuals) 14,375,000 100% 20.0% https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1819608/000119312520247048/d86779ds1.htm
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20210129G05155109ACND16093ASCENDANT DIGITAL ACQUISITION 10.39
20210129G05155117ACNDWS38768ASCENDANT DIGITAL ACQUISITION 1.46
Ascendant Sponsor LP(3) 8,445,000 7,320,000 97.9% 19.5%
Mark Gerhard — — * *
Riaan Hodgson — — * *
David Gomberg(3) 8,445,000 7,320,000 97.9% 19.5%
Mickie Rosen 30,000 30,000 * *
Michael Jesselson 30,000 30,000 * *
Diane Nelson 30,000 30,000 * *
Robert Foresman 30,000 30,000 * *
All officers, directors and director nominees as a group(7 individuals) 8,565,000 7,440,000 99.3% 19.8% https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1805651/000119312520185380/d824277ds1.htm
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20210129G03707109ATAC86275ALTIMAR ACQUISITION CORP CL A 10.60
Altimar Sponsor II LLC(3) 8,450,000 19.59 19.59 — — — — — —
Kevin Beebe 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Payne Brown 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Rick Jelinek 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Roma Khanna 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Wendy Lai — — — — — — — — —
Michael Rubenstein 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Vijay Sondhi 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Michael Vorhaus 25,000 * * — — — — — —
Tom Wasserman — — — — — — — — —
Directors and Executive Officers of Altimar II as a Group (9 Individuals)
175,000 20.0 20.0 — — — — — —
Directors and Executive Officers of Fathom After Consummation of the Business Combination
George Buckley
Carey Chen
TJ Chung
Dr. Caralyn Nowinski Collens
David Fisher
Maria Green
Peter Leemputtee
Ryan Martin
John May
Robert Nardelli
All Directors and Executive Officers of Fathom as a Group (10 Individuals)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1836176/000095012321009557/filename1.htm
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20210129G0103T105ACAC18126ACIES ACQUISITION CORP USD CL 11.00
20210129G0103T113ACACW7421ACIES ACQUISITION CORP USD RED2.75
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1823878/000110465921071823/tm216054-21_424b3.htm
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20210129G0120M109AGBA10080AGBA ACQUISITION LTD SHS10.47
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1769624/000121390022013564/prer14a0222_agbaacquisition.htm
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20210129G00748122STWOU21108ACON S2 ACQUIST CORP UNIT 1 CL10.76
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1819438/000119312521272876/d129808d424b3.htm
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putting this article here to read later.
https://archive.ph/cX8cc
Yet study after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90%. A lot of researchers have tried to explain those abysmal statistics, usually by analyzing the attributes of deals that worked and those that didn’t. What’s lacking, we believe, is a robust theory that identifies the causes of those successes and failures.
https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-big-idea-the-new-ma-playbook
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Peter Lee Coker
A native of Allentown, PA, Peter Lee Coker has made Chapel Hill, North Carolina his new home. A former college basketball star, Coker has become a star of the investment and executive management industry. Together with his partner, Peter Reichard, Coker formed Europa Capital Investments, LLC. He not only invests in the companies that come to him for assistance, he also invests in his community. Coker supports a number of nonprofit organizations, as well.
Education
Peter Lee Coker attended Allentown High School and graduated in 1960. After graduation, he attended Bullis Preparatory School to help him get ready for college. His college career began at Dartmouth. In 1963, he transferred to North Carolina State University. He earned his Bachelors of Arts from the school in 1966.
He continued his education at the university. In 1968, he earned a Masters degree in Economics. While at North Carolina State, he was an active participant in college sports. He played on the school's basketball team and received a scholarship from the NCAA after graduation. He continued his commitment to basketball at the school by coaching the freshman basketball team from 1967 to 1968.
Professional Career
After his time at North Carolina State, Peter Lee Coker moved back to Pennsylvania. For a decade, he worked at Bethlehem Steel, from 1968 to 1978. Bethlehem Steel was at one time the second largest producer of steel in the U.S.
At the steel company, he served as the assistant vice president of the company's pension fund. He was responsible for overseeing and managing over a billion dollars in stocks and bonds in the pension fund. He invested funds and assets in U.S. stocks and bonds. He also met with the board of directors monthly to discuss the portfolio's diversification and asset allocation.
When his position at Bethlehem Steel ended, he moved on to work at McGlinn Asset Management. There, he served as the managing director of a Registered Investment Advisor. At McGlinn, he worked with high net-worth individuals and managed Taft Hartley funds as well as corporate pension and profit-sharing funds.
At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, Peter Lee Coker decided to use his talents to form his own company. In 1979, he founded American Asset Management Company, Inc., in New York City. In addition to founding the company, he served as the managing director until 1995. American Asset Management Company was a Registered Investment Advisory firm.
At the company, Coker managed both institutional and individual investment portfolios with full discretion. Half of the portfolios he managed were U.S. institutional portfolios and just under half were from off-shore investors. In total, he managed more than $1 billion in funds such as Taft Hartley funds, pension and profit-sharing funds, and hedge funds.
After more than a decade in New York, Coker returned to North Carolina in 1996. In Raleigh, he served as the managing director of Capital Investment Partners, an investment banking firm. At Capital Investment Partners, he helped companies go public, assisted in mergers and acquisitions, and assisted with leveraged buyouts. He also helped companies with capital raise and restructuring.
At the start of the 21st century, Peter Lee Coker founded Tryon Capital Partners, a merchant banking firm in Chapel Hill. The company changed its name to Tryon Capital Ventures in 2004. Coker serves as the managing director of the firm.
When the firm was Tryon Capital Partners, the focus was on helping companies raise equity or debt or with helping companies with capital restructuring. The focus of Tryon Capital Ventures is now assisting companies in getting funding, restructuring capital or going public. Tryon Capital Ventures works with companies based in the Southeastern part of the U.S., as well as companies based in Asia.
Charity Donations
Coker served as the chair of the NC State Investment Fund, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that operates an investment fund for the endowment fund of the university and for other foundations affiliated with the university. When serving as chair of the investment fund for a decade, Coker contributed financially to help the school's athletics program.
He has also given generously to the University of North Carolina Children's Hospital. The hospital helps children who are ill or injured. It serves over 70,000 children from 100 counties in North Carolina each year. Coker's financial support of the hospital endowed the Dr. Fred Bowman chair.
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" Coker Sr. and Patten were arrested in North Carolina last year. They entered not guilty pleas at an October court appearance. Both were released on $100,000 bonds. "
Must be nice to be able to afford bail like that...
https://archive.ph/ruTxX
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/04/13/spac-related-enforcement-and-litigation-what-to-expect-in-2022/

• The SEC has indicated that it will continue its focus on SPACs, including by proposing rules to further regulate SPACs this spring, which could lead to increased SEC enforcement activity involving SPACs and de-SPAC’ed public companies.
• Federal prosecutors, under directives from US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to invigorate efforts to combat corporate crime, are likely to increase their focus on SPAC-related securities matters, including on issues involving insider trading and investor fraud.
• Private securities class action lawsuits targeting SPACs, SPAC directors, and operating company executives are increasingly common in light of regulatory scrutiny and a proliferation of short seller attacks.
• Key court decisions are expected in early 2022 that may clarify or limit the application of MultiPlan’s entire fairness standard of review and resolve questions involving the application of the Investment Company Act of 1940 to certain SPACs.

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https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ripples-following-spac-wave-litigation-and-regulatory-risks
It’s a pattern we often see in boom-and-bust cycles—disputes rising in the period after a wave crests. SPAC deal volume hit an unprecedented high in 2021, but then slowed down in 2022 alongside IPOs. However, the fallout from the SPAC wave will continue to unfold this year, generating increased regulatory attention and a growing number of disputes.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pformer-chief-financial-officer-two-spacs-sentenced-36-months-prison-fraud-scheme
Between approximately June 2021 and August 2022, MORGENTHAU, who was the CFO of AGAC and SMAC, embezzled more than $5 million from the two SPACs. AGAC had recently had its initial public offering (“IPO”), while SMAC was raising money from private investors in preparation for its anticipated IPO. MORGENTHAU used the embezzled funds to trade equities and options of so-called “meme stocks” and cryptocurrencies, losing almost all of the money that he stole. To conceal and facilitate his embezzlement from AGAC, MORGENTHAU fabricated bank statements, which he provided to AGAC’s accountant and auditor; made and caused to be made material misstatements in AGAC’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”); and transferred some of SMAC’s funds to AGAC to cover up the funds he had misappropriated from AGAC.
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https://hbr.org/2021/07/spacs-what-you-need-to-know

Targets.

Most SPAC targets are start-up firms that have been through the venture capital process. Firms at this stage commonly consider several options: pursuing a traditional IPO, conducting a direct IPO listing, selling the business to another company or a private equity firm, or raising additional capital, typically from private equity firms, hedge funds, or other institutional investors. SPACs can be an attractive alternative to these late-round options. They are highly customizable and can address a variety of combination types. Although targets are commonly a single private company, sponsors may also use the structure to roll up multiple targets. SPACs can also take companies public in the United States that are already public overseas and even combine multiple SPACs to take one company public.
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