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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.
3 vehicles on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one · 2 vehicles carry no counterparty filing we have read
6 people on two or more of them
B. Luke Weil is a seasoned special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsor and executive who currently serves as Chairman of Willow Lane Capital Group and as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: WLIIU/WLII), a blank-check company focused on identifying acquisition targets in the consumer goods, gaming and leisure, and industrials sectors. He has led Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. II since August 2025 and guided the company through its initial public offering on February 13, 2026, which raised $143.75 million through the sale of 14,375,000 units at $10.00 per unit, with BTIG, LLC acting as sole book-running manager. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-fourth of a redeemable warrant exercisable at $11.50 per share. Weil directly owns approximately 26.1% of the company's shares, valued at roughly $54 million, underscoring his significant personal commitment to the venture. The management team alongside him includes George Peng as Chief Financial Officer and Marjorie (Maya) Hernandez as Chief Operating Officer, while the board features independent directors Simón Gaviria Muñoz, Robert Stevens, Jeremy (Rayne) Steinberg, Mauricio Orellana, and Joseph Samuels. A. Lorne Weil serves as an Advisor to the Company.
Prior to Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. II, Weil served as CEO of the predecessor entity Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: WLAC), which completed its IPO on December 30, 2024, and is now listed as no longer active, suggesting a completed business combination or other transaction. In April 2026, a press release disclosed that Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. II, led by Weil, had entered into a definitive agreement as of September 15, 2025, to effect a business combination, indicating that the SPAC moved from its pre-deal status toward an announced transaction. Additionally, Weil has served as a Director of Boost Run, LLC since May 8, 2026, expanding his portfolio of leadership roles beyond the SPAC vehicle itself. His LinkedIn profile identifies him as Chairman at Willow Lane Capital Group, the parent investment platform backing the SPAC franchise, and he is based in the United States with over 500 LinkedIn connections.
Weil's track record in the SPAC space reflects a pattern of serial sponsorship, having now led at least two blank-check vehicles under the Willow Lane banner. While detailed information about his earlier career history, formal education, and prior corporate roles is limited in the available public sources, his profile on Bloomberg indicates that compensation, career history, education, and membership data are tracked for him, consistent with his status as a public company CEO. At 46 years old, Weil represents a relatively young but active SPAC sponsor who has demonstrated the ability to raise substantial capital—over $140 million in the WLII IPO alone—and assemble boards with geographically and professionally diverse directors, including former government officials and industry leaders. His focus on middle-market companies with established operations and strong management teams suggests a targeted approach to value creation through operational improvement and strategic growth rather than early-stage speculation. The involvement of A. Lorne Weil as an advisor further suggests a family or professional connection to experienced SPAC leadership, though the nature of that relationship is not elaborated upon in the available sources.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001543122 — 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 36 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.