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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.
4 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 3 vehicles carry no counterparty filing we have read
5 people on two or more of them
David M. Leuschen serves as Chief Executive Officer, Director, and prospective Executive Chairman of CH4 Natural Solutions Corporation (NYSE: MTNE), a special purpose acquisition company focused on natural solutions and energy transition targets. He has held the CEO and director roles since October 2024 and is expected to assume the chairmanship of the board following completion of the company's initial public offering. CH4 Natural Solutions priced its IPO on May 1, 2026, raising approximately $200 million in gross proceeds (with total IPO proceeds reported at $220 million), with Santander serving as left-lead underwriter. The SPAC has a 24-month tenor to complete a business combination, with 100% of IPO cash held in trust. The company's units, Class A ordinary shares, and warrants began separate trading on June 22, 2026, and the entity carries a market capitalization in the range of approximately $295 million to $402 million depending on the reporting source.
Leuschen's primary professional identity outside the SPAC is as co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Riverstone, a private equity firm focused on energy and power investments. Through Riverstone, he has built a career in energy-sector private equity, and the CH4 Natural Solutions vehicle represents an extension of that focus into the natural solutions and decarbonization space. His leadership of the SPAC is underpinned by his deep experience in energy investing and deal execution at Riverstone, though specific prior transaction details and exits from Riverstone are not enumerated in the available sources.
Leuschen's control of the SPAC's sponsor structure is direct and personal. He is the sole and managing member of Riverstone Earth LLC, which in turn is the sole and managing member of CH4 Natural Solutions Acquisition Sponsor Manager, LLC, the entity that controls the sponsor. SEC filings confirm that Leuschen may be deemed a beneficial owner of the sponsor-related securities, including 200,000 private placement units acquired at $10.00 per unit in connection with the IPO, each comprising one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one warrant. He is identified as a 10% owner and as Chairman and CEO in insider filings. The warrants associated with these units become exercisable 30 days after completion of an initial business combination and expire five years thereafter, or earlier upon redemption or liquidation. No information regarding Leuschen's educational background, prior board seats outside of CH4 Natural Solutions, or specific geographic location was available in the sources reviewed.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001222726 — 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 70 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 34 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.