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none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
1 person on two or more of them
Benjamin A. Friedman is the CEO, Chief Financial Officer, and Director of BOA Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: THEO), a blank-check company targeting real estate and infrastructure opportunities, with particular emphasis on energy, telecommunications, and transportation assets. The SPAC filed to raise up to $200 million through an IPO of 20 million units priced at $10 each, with D. Boral Capital serving as left-lead underwriter, and ultimately closed its initial public offering with $143.75 million in proceeds. The IPO was priced on or around August 4, 2026, following a confidential submission in September 2025. Brian D. Friedman serves as Chairman of the vehicle. Benjamin Friedman is also identified as Managing Partner at The Avery Companies and a Partner at Friedman Capital, firms that lend the SPAC its real estate and infrastructure-investing pedigree. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer, President, and Director of the predecessor vehicle BOA Acquisition Corp., a role he assumed on December 31, 2020, where he also held the title of Head of Investor Relations.
Prior to his SPAC leadership roles, Friedman built a career in credit and leveraged finance across major financial institutions. He began his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch on the leveraged finance trading team before moving to CQS, UK LLP, an approximately $18 billion hedge fund and asset management firm focused on opportunistic credit investments, where he served as a Portfolio Manager responsible for U.S. high-yield credit hedge fund investments. At CQS, he employed capital structure arbitrage, fundamental credit analysis, and relative value strategies, and participated in numerous complex corporate restructurings and subsequent equity reorganizations. He was also a member of the firm's long-only multi-asset strategic investment team managing over $7 billion in assets, where he ran a dedicated high-yield corporate credit book. He subsequently joined Citigroup Global Markets as a Director and Senior Trader, leading the high-yield Energy and Utility trading franchise. In addition to his investment roles, Friedman founded Build Scale Grow in July 2018 in New York, an organization focused on helping early-stage founders and CFOs, and has served as a Managing Director at New York Tech.
Friedman earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and attended Detroit Country Day School. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2017. He is based in Birmingham, Michigan, and maintains an active professional network of over 500 connections. His SPAC vehicle, BOA Acquisition Corp. II, is part of a broader 2026 revival in SPAC issuance, distinguished by its focus on sectors adjacent to but distinct from the AI-dominated mega-rounds capturing most public-market attention. The vehicle's sponsor and management team maintain extensive relationships across real estate and infrastructure, incorporating owners, operators, developers, tenants, brokers, and service providers, as well as substantive contacts within the technology space through venture capital and private equity investments made by sponsor members.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001849257 — 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 8 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.