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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 3 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting — again over all 3.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 1 vehicle carry no counterparty filing we have read
3 people on two or more of them
Will Smith currently serves as Chief Investment Officer of EQV Ventures Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: EVAC) and as a Partner of the EQV Group, roles he has held since 2024. He also serves as the Chief Investment Officer of EQV Ventures Acquisition Corp. I, a position he assumed in June 2024. In his capacity with EQV, Smith is responsible for guiding the investment strategy of the SPAC, which focuses on effecting a business combination with a target in the energy industry, specifically upstream exploration and production. EQV Ventures Acquisition Corp. II, incorporated in 2024 and based in Park City, Utah, successfully priced its upsized $420 million IPO on July 2, 2025, with units trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol "EVACU." Smith is based in Dallas, Texas.
Prior to joining the EQV Group, Smith built a robust career in energy and credit investing. From 2021 to 2024, he was a senior investment professional at Crestline Investors, Inc., a credit-focused alternative asset manager where he focused on structured credit and tailored financing solutions across a range of industries. Before Crestline, he oversaw a range of investments in the upstream and midstream sectors at Bison Water Midstream from 2019 to 2021, and held various investment roles at Tailwater Capital LLC from 2017 to 2019. Smith began his career at Goldman Sachs as a member of the Global Natural Resources Group, where he was part of a team providing capital markets and M&A advisory services to businesses across all verticals of the oil and gas industry.
Smith holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Energy Finance from Southern Methodist University. His track record spans energy private equity, structured credit, and investment banking, providing him with a comprehensive skill set to identify and evaluate potential acquisition targets for EQV Ventures II. Alongside his role as Chief Investment Officer, he works closely with the broader EQV management team, including CEO Jerome C. Silvey Jr., President and CFO Tyson Taylor, and COO Mickey Raney, to execute the SPAC's mandate in the energy sector.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002029826 — 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 14 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 13 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.