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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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2 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
3 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 2 vehicles carry no counterparty filing we have read
4 people on two or more of them
Andrew A. "Drew" McKnight is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Fortress Investment Group LLC, a global investment management firm, a role he has held since May 2023. Based in Dallas, Texas, McKnight also serves as a Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Credit Funds business, where he plays a pivotal role in overseeing credit investment strategies, including corporate distressed loans and bonds, liquid strategies, distressed debt, and credit transactions. He serves on Fortress's Board of Directors (having joined in June 2020), the Leadership Committee, and several investment committees. He is also Co-CIO of the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund and other Fortress credit vehicles. McKnight joined Fortress in February 2005 as a senior member of the investment staff within the credit group led by Peter Briger Jr. and Dean Dakolias, having been drawn to the firm after encountering Briger's work while on Goldman Sachs' distressed-debt trading desk. At Fortress, he has worked on some of the credit group's most innovative and high-pressure transactions, including the negotiated purchase of $205 million in preferred shares of Harbinger Group from Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, McKnight worked at Fir Tree Partners, where he analyzed and traded high-yield and convertible bonds, bank debt, derivatives, and equities, and before that at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in Leveraged Finance and the Distressed Bank Debt trading group. He was recognized as a Hedge Fund Rising Star by Institutional Investor in 2012 at age 34.
In the SPAC arena, McKnight serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V (NASDAQ: FVAV), which priced a $250 million IPO in February 2026, the sixth blank-check company led by Fortress executives. He is joined on the FVAV team by co-CEOs Andrew Stroud and Micah Kaplan and CFO John Konawalik. McKnight's broader SPAC track record through the Fortress Value Acquisition platform includes six transactions with aggregate capital deployed of approximately $1.95 billion and a 50% merger completion rate. Prior SPACs under his leadership include Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. IV (NYSE: FVIV.U, $600 million, IPO February 2021, liquidated 2022), Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. III (NYSE: FVT.U, $200 million, IPO November 2020, liquidated 2022), Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: ATIP, $300 million, IPO July 2020, merged with ATI Physical Therapy in a $1.5 billion deal), Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. I ($300 million, IPO March 2020, merged with MP Materials in a $1.0 billion deal, with MP subsequently returning +487% from the $10 offer price), and Mosaic Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: VVNT, $300 million, IPO September 2017, announced $5.6 billion deal). Deutsche Bank Securities served as the frequent underwriter across these transactions. McKnight also serves on the board of MP Materials (NYSE: MP), the rare-earth mining company that was Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. I's merger target.
McKnight holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Virginia. Beyond his corporate roles, he is actively engaged in policy and academic institutions, serving on the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, the Board of Advisors of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, the Advisory Board of Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business Alternative Asset Management Center, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center President's Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has contributed to the Center for a New American Security, and serves on the Dallas Federal Reserve's financial sector council. McKnight is a frequent speaker at major industry events, including the Milken Institute Global Conference, where he shares insights on private credit investing and credit market strategy.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001680357 — 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 71 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 30 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.