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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.
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1 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
Paul Jeffrey Leck is an investment banking and capital markets professional based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets at Crewe Capital (also known as Crewe Investment Bank), a middle-market investment banking firm, a role he assumed in March 2022. At Crewe, he is part of a senior team that provides mergers and acquisitions advisory, corporate finance, and capital solutions to middle-market companies. His career in investment banking spans more than a decade, including prior roles as an investment banker at Credit Suisse and Macquarie, where he advised companies on a broad range of transactions including initial public offerings. He holds a degree from Brigham Young University.
Leck is best known in the SPAC arena for his role as Chief Executive Officer, President, Director, and 10 percent owner of Mallard Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: MACU/MACUU/MACUW), a special purpose acquisition company headquartered at 19701 Bethel Church Road, Cornelius, North Carolina. He led the company from its inception in February 2020 through April 2022. Under his leadership, Mallard Acquisition Corp. completed its initial public offering on October 27, 2020, raising $110 million in gross proceeds. The SPAC was established to acquire or merge with a private business, with a focus on the value-added distribution, industrial specialty services, and differentiated manufacturing sectors. Leck articulated the strategy of providing private businesses the advantage of going public without mounting their own IPO, leveraging Mallard's already-public status to facilitate a merger or business combination.
As a founder and significant shareholder of Mallard Acquisition Corp., Leck held a 10 percent ownership stake through Mallard Founders Holdings LLC, alongside co-founders including John F. Kirtley, who served as CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer. SEC filings document his insider ownership across the company's common stock, units, and warrants (MACU, MACUU, MACUW) dating from the IPO date. His tenure as CEO concluded in April 2022, after which he transitioned to his current role at Crewe Capital. While at Mallard, the SPAC did not complete a definitive business combination during his leadership period. His broader transaction experience from his Credit Suisse and Macquarie tenures includes advising on IPOs and a broad range of corporate finance transactions, though specific deal details from those roles are not publicly enumerated in available sources.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001805750 — 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 34 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 20 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.