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Heath Bradford Freeman is a New York-based financier and SPAC sponsor who serves as Chairman of Oyster Enterprises II Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: OYSEU), a blank check company that priced an upsized $220 million IPO in May 2025, targeting businesses in technology, media, entertainment, sports, consumer products, financial services, real estate, hospitality, AI, and digital assets/blockchain. He leads target identification, negotiation, and execution for the Oyster platform alongside CEO and Vice Chairman Mario Zarazua, with Randall D. Smith serving as advisor. Freeman previously sponsored and served as CEO, director, and 10 percent owner of Oyster Enterprises Acquisition Corp. (OSTRU), which raised $230 million in its January 2021 IPO led by Imperial Capital before liquidating in December 2022 without completing a business combination. He is also party to a June 2025 agreement among Oyster Enterprises II LLC, Oyster Management II LLC, Zarazua, and Smith governing the second SPAC's structure.
Freeman is best known as a founding member and President of Alden Global Capital LLC, the New York-based hedge fund he co-founded in 2007 with Randall D. Smith at age 26 after joining Smith Management in 2006, where he was responsible for investing in value equities, emerging markets, and distressed securities. At Alden, Freeman specializes in reorg, private equity, and distressed/high-yield debt, and runs the firm's daily operations. He has attracted national attention—and significant criticism—for Alden's acquisition and aggressive cost-cutting of American newspapers through Digital First Media, which as of 2021 constituted the second-largest U.S. newspaper portfolio after Gannett, including the 2021 purchase of Tribune Publishing. He has also served as a director of Fred's Inc. and as a 10 percent owner of Tribune Publishing Co. Beyond finance, Freeman founded SLT Group, Inc. in 2011, a boutique fitness chain, and co-founded City of Saints Coffee Roasters, a small New York-area coffee chain featured on the television series Billions. He has assembled a portfolio of Hamptons hospitality properties, including the EHP Resort & Marina, Si Si Mediterranean Restaurant, two Buongiorno bakeries, Enchante (formerly Red Bar) outside Southampton, the Inn Spot and Crash Cantina in Hampton Bays, Sunset Harbor, and the Harbor Bistro in East Hampton, purchased for $4 million in December 2021.
Freeman graduated from Duke University in 2002 with an undergraduate degree, where he was a walk-on place-kicker on the football team, a member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, and active at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, which his parents helped fund; he now chairs the center's advisory board. After graduation, he worked as an analyst at the Peter J. Solomon Company investment bank in New York before joining Smith Management. His father, Brian Freeman, was an investment banker who represented labor unions and worked at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Carter administration; both of Freeman's parents died during his early twenties, an experience he has said made him more of a realist. Freeman is based in New York (mailing address New York, NY 10022) and is described as publicity-shy, though his role at Alden has made him a prominent and controversial figure in American media.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001693074 — 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 10 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.