Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one
Joseph Durnford currently serves as an Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair of Oceanhawk Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: OHAC), having been appointed to the board in May 2026 in connection with the company's initial public offering. In addition to his board responsibilities, he is the Chairman and Senior Managing Director of the award-winning investment banking firm JD Merit, also known as JD Ford & Company, where he has served as CEO and Managing Member since February 1996. Based in Denver, Colorado, Durnford is also an active investor with 99 Reasons and serves as an advisor to business owners facing consequential decisions. His extensive expertise in the complex world of merg
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002138506 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 7 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 6 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.