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Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
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Todd Lowen is a seasoned finance and investment executive with over 22 years of experience, currently serving as Managing Partner at Hallwood Media Ventures (HMV), a music-focused venture and investment firm. In this role, he partners with founder Neil Jacobson, the former President of Geffen Records, to identify and support opportunities across the music and entertainment landscape. Lowen's career has been deeply rooted in event-driven investing, with a particular specialization in special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that spans advising on strategies from pre-IPO filings through to consummation of business combinations.
Lowen spent the majority of his career in the Equity Derivatives businesses of Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital Inc. in New York, where he advised institutional investors such as hedge funds and pension funds on event-driven investment strategies including merger arbitrage, spin-offs and splits, exchange offers, tenders, and SPACs. Over the course of his career, he has advised more than 250 institutional investors on investment and trading strategies across over 500 unique mergers, spin-offs, exchange offers, tenders, and SPAC transactions. In September 2016, he joined Olivetree Financial, LLC as a Managing Director to establish and build out its U.S. Event Driven Business, assembling a team around similar strategies with a sharpened focus on the SPAC asset class. He remained at Olivetree through October 2021. Subsequently, Lowen joined Cantor Fitzgerald as a Senior Managing Director in 2021 to manage their Event Driven business, which included the continued build-out of their SPAC division, before moving on to focus entirely on Hallwood Media Ventures.
Lowen's most prominent SPAC role was as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Director of The Music Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: TMAC), a position he held from the company's inception in 2020 through December 2022. Co-founded with Neil Jacobson, TMAC was the first music-specific SPAC in the wave of blank-check companies that surged beginning in 2019. The company raised $230 million in its February 3, 2021 initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TMAC.U, with Citigroup and Cantor Fitzgerald serving as joint bookrunners. TMAC sought to acquire a high-growth music or music-adjacent company with approximately a $1 billion valuation, targeting businesses in categories such as music companies (labels or publishers), music-focused technology or social media companies, and consumer-facing audio content businesses. Lowen emphasized that the team was looking for established companies demonstrating double-digit revenue growth and readiness for the public markets rather than speculative bets. The SPAC ultimately failed to complete a business combination within its required timeframe. As of November 2022, Lowen owned approximately 5,708,155 shares of TMAC stock, valued at roughly $58 million, and served as a director and 10 percent owner.
Lowen graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts in Finance. Beyond his professional endeavors, he is actively involved with Success Academy Charter Schools, which provides educational opportunities to children from diverse backgrounds in New York, and City Harvest, a food rescue and redistribution organization in New York City. His mailing address is listed in Hollywood, California. Through his deep expertise in event-driven investing and his extensive network across institutional finance, Lowen has positioned himself as a bridge between Wall Street capital markets and the music industry, leveraging decades of merger arbitrage and SPAC strategy experience to identify and evaluate acquisition targets in one of the fastest-growing sectors of the entertainment economy.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001843752 — 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.