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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
SEC-verified vehicles of the same sponsor, predating these roles and carrying none of them. The badge counts them; the figure beside this one does not.
Mergers closed across all 2 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting — again over all 2.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
1 terminated deal — weigh against the wins.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one
Laurent Patrick André Michelon is a French entrepreneur, writer, and independent director based in Hong Kong, currently serving as an Independent Director on the board of Newbridge Acquisition Ltd (NASDAQ: NBRG/NBRGU), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) headquartered in Hong Kong. Newbridge Acquisition was founded on April 16, 2021, and priced its $50 million IPO in early 2025, offering 5,000,000 units at $10.00 each, with each unit comprising one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive one-eighth of a Class A share upon completion of a business combination. Michelon was appointed to the board in connection with the IPO and filed an initial Form 3 with the SEC on January 29, 2026, reporting beneficial ownership of 20,000 Class B founder shares, which will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares on a one-for-one basis at the time of Newbridge's initial business combination. He also serves as an Independent Director at Bridge III Acquisition Ltd, a role he began in 2024, indicating an active involvement across multiple SPAC vehicles. The Newbridge board includes Chairman and CEO Yong Sheng Liu, director and 10% owner Ji Ning Li, and fellow independent directors Angela Lee and Kin Pui Choi, with Wealth Path Holdings Ltd serving as the sponsor entity.
Beyond his SPAC governance roles, Michelon brings nearly 25 years of experience in Greater China, having been based in the region since 1995. He holds a PhD from Yale University and has established himself as a published author and commentator on Chinese and East Asian affairs. His academic and editorial work is associated with the Centre for East Asian Studies and related institutions in Hong Kong and Taipei, where he has contributed reviews and commentary on topics including China's maritime frontier, Taiwanese independence movements, and questions of national identity in Taiwan. His writings reflect a deep engagement with the political, legal, and historical dynamics of the region, and he has been featured in programming connected to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's academic community. Michelon's combination of extensive on-the-ground China experience, advanced academic credentials, and cross-cultural expertise positions him as a regionally specialized independent director for SPACs targeting or connected to China-based business combinations, a focus explicitly highlighted in Newbridge's prospectus given the regulatory and geopolitical complexities of PRC-linked transactions.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002088440 — 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 12 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 10 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.