FACT II Acquisition Corp. priced its $175m initial public offering on November 26th, 2024. The units are listed for trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol “FACT”.

Our sponsor is FACT II Acquisition Parent LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company. Our sponsor was established by Adam Gishen, Min Lee, Richard Nespola, Jr. and Joseph Wagman to leverage their extensive experience in acquiring, building, operating and scaling global financial services and complex operations businesses in constantly evolving environments.

Mr. Gishen has over 25 years of experience in financial services and has held senior leadership responsibilities in recent years as the Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Acquisition I Corp., a director of Complete Solaria, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSLR), and at Credit Suisse running its Global Investor Relations and Corporate Communications functions.

Mr. Lee has approximately 20 years of financial experience and previously served as Senior Advisor of Freedom Acquisition I Corp. from 2021 to 2023. Mr. Lee is a Co-Founder of BFY Capital, a specialty private credit investment platform focused on consumer brands in the natural and organic food, beverage, beauty and pet industries. Prior to BFY, Mr. Lee was the CFO of Patch of Land, a Director in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking division, and worked at The Walt Disney Company as a Senior Analyst in the company’s Corporate Treasury group.

Mr. Nespola has over 24 years of experience as an operator and private investor and previously served as Senior Advisor of Freedom Acquisition I Corp. from 2021 to 2023. He is Co-Founder of Working Lab Capital, BFY Capital and Victura Capital, which are diversified private investment platforms focused on venture, specialty private credit and real estate respectively. Previously, Mr. Nespola was a member of the leadership team of Liquidity Services (Nasdaq: LQDT); as Director, he led Global Sales, FP&A, and Channel Revenue Optimization functions and was part of the Corporate Development team focused on acquisitions. Prior to LQDT, Mr. Nespola worked at Freddie Mac, leading structured transactions for the Security Sales & Trading Group. Mr. Nespola is also a Partner in Quimby Ventures where he oversees alternative fund investments. Mr. Nespola has his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and holds his BA from Washington University in St Louis.

Mr. Wagman is a member of the investment team of our sponsor, and he was previously a member of the investment team of Freedom Acquisition I Corp. prior to its business combination with Complete Solaria, Inc. Mr. Wagman previously was a member of the J. Safra Group’s Private Equity investment team and at SOSV, a global venture capital firm that provides pre-seed, seed, venture and growth stage funding. Mr. Wagman holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Birmingham and a Master of Science in Finance and Private Equity from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

We believe that the collective experience of the team members of our sponsor, in combination with their deep and broad global network of relationships across public and private sectors in both mature as well as emerging markets, provides us with a competitive advantage to identify, structure, finance and acquire the operations of a compelling target business. In pursuing our strategy of creating a strong operating company, capable of scaling up and generating free cash flow, we intend to add value to the target business through active engagement with its management team, and enabling that company to leverage the benefits of scale to grow and increase profitability.