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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 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
Richard L. Jackson, also known as Rick Jackson, is a seasoned healthcare executive and serial entrepreneur who currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Acquisition Company II (NYSE: JACS), a special purpose acquisition company. He is also the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Jackson Healthcare, a leading platform of 25 healthcare staffing, executive search, and technology companies that he established in 2000. Under his leadership, Jackson Healthcare has grown into one of the largest privately held staffing companies in the United States, generating an estimated $1.5 billion to $2 billion in annual revenue. The firm operates from its headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia, and encompasses a broad ecosystem of healthcare-related businesses, including its private equity arm, Jackson Capital Partners. Jackson has been instrumental in building this enterprise over the past 34 years, applying a simple principle of bringing talented professionals together with a shared purpose.
In the public markets, Jackson has leveraged his deep healthcare operating experience to launch sector-specific SPACs. He founded his first blank-check vehicle, Jackson Acquisition Company, in March 2021, serving as its President and CEO. That SPAC successfully raised $220 million in its December 2021 IPO and completed a business combination with a healthcare services target in 2022. Following that exit, Jackson formed Jackson Acquisition Company II through the sponsor entity Jackson Holdco II LLC, which he controls. The second vehicle priced its IPO at $10 per unit in December 2024, raising approximately $200 million in gross proceeds (with IPO proceeds reported at $230 million) and listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The SPAC's mandate is narrowly focused on acquiring an operating company in the healthcare or healthcare-adjacent services sector, specifically targeting founder-led, privately held businesses generating between $50 million and $500 million in annual revenue.
Jackson’s SPAC architecture is distinguished by its "sponsor as strategic partner" model, which differs from generalist financial sponsors. By running the acquisition vehicle through his existing healthcare operating platform, Jackson offers target companies immediate access to the back-office infrastructure, client relationships, and executive network of Jackson Healthcare. This structure provides robust due-diligence capabilities and post-close integration resources that standalone blank-check sponsors typically lack. The SPAC's roadshow materials indicate a focus on middle-market healthcare sub-sectors, including physician practice management, home health, behavioral health, and revenue cycle management, with a preference for companies where existing management teams intend to remain post-acquisition. Jackson leads the acquisition search and negotiation process directly from Alpharetta, positioning himself as a strategic consolidator rather than a purely financial buyer in the southeastern U.S. healthcare market.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001572666 — 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 79 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 37 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.