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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.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
Neil Jacobson is a veteran music industry executive, founder, and CEO of Hallwood Media, an independent music management, publishing, and record label company based in West Hollywood, California. He is also the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Music Acquisition Corporation (TMAC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that has been described as the music industry's first SPAC. TMAC floated on the New York Stock Exchange in February 2021 under the ticker symbol TMAC.U, raising approximately $230 million with the goal of acquiring businesses connected to the music sector, including audio content, technology, social media, and consumer-facing music businesses. The SPAC's board of directors included Michael Levitt (CEO of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors), film and television producer Ben Silverman, and Babatunde "Tunde" Balogun, president and co-founder of LVRN. Todd Lowen, formerly of Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, served as COO. The SPAC ultimately filed to liquidate early in October 2022 after failing to identify a suitable merger target.
Jacobson's career in the music business spans over two decades, the majority of which he spent at Interscope Geffen A&M Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. He joined Interscope in the early 2000s and over 17 years worked in international publicity and marketing, management, and A&R, rising through the ranks from publicist to senior vice president and executive vice president. In January 2016, he was appointed president of Geffen Records, the historic label re-established under the Interscope Geffen A&M umbrella, and held that position until January 2020. During his tenure as president of Geffen, Jacobson oversaw the signing of Darkroom Records, the label home of Billie Eilish. Throughout his career at Interscope and Geffen, Jacobson signed or worked closely with artists including Avicii, DJ Snake, LMFAO, Robin Thicke, The Black Eyed Peas, Madonna, Priyanka Chopra, Gryffin, Mura Masa, Yungblud, and many others. He also managed the careers of prominent producers and songwriters such as Jeff Bhasker (Bruno Mars, Harry Styles, Kanye West, Jay-Z), Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey, Eminem), and Brendan O'Brien (Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam). Hallwood Media originated as Interscope Records' producer management division, which Jacobson started in 2013, and which he spun off into an independent company upon his departure from Geffen in late 2019. Since its founding, Hallwood has expanded to include management, recordings, distribution, publishing, merchandise, and ventures, and in 2025 announced a joint venture with 9th St Records, the management company behind artist Rich Amiri.
Jacobson has also been a key architect in bridging music rights owners and Wall Street. He helped coordinate the sale of artist catalogs for an aggregate total in excess of $100 million, including the sale of Jeff Bhasker's publishing catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Fund and an unspecified sale of rights to Morgan Stanley for a reported $60 million. Jacobson graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1999 with a degree in music business. His path to Berklee was unconventional: he began caddying as a teenager at Engineers Country Club, Old Westbury Country Club, and Deepdale Golf Club on Long Island, New York, where he met music executives such as Charles Koppelman and Tom Ennis of Arista Records, which inspired his pursuit of a career in the music industry. His father agreed to pay for his Berklee education on the condition that he gained admission. Jacobson is based in Los Angeles, California, and continues to lead Hallwood Media as it grows its footprint across the music and entertainment landscape.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001843755 — 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 17 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 11 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.