Data last updated: Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ETLatest filing: Oct 22, 2026Now: Oct 24, 2026, 7:42 AM ET

Empire

One sponsor team, 4 deal companies · Westport, CT

Grouped because: 5 shared people, 2 shared management entities, same business address (2 issuers), similar issuer names (2) (automatic match from the filings) · not the same sponsor?

4deal companies

$966.8Mreported sold

302investors

27Form D filings

2010–2016active

0new, last 12 mo

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Latest filing in this group Jan 15, 2016 · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:16 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

Empire is a sponsor group of 4 issuers that PartnerFacts links to one sponsor (shared people, shared management entity, same business address, shared principal (person on 60+ issuers) at the same address or management entity, similar issuer names; automatic match from the filings), filing 27 Form D filings between Feb 2010 and Jan 2016.

What this means One team, 4 deal companies, about 6 years of track record in SEC filings. We link the companies because the same people or address appear on their forms — tap "Request a correction" if that is wrong.

Combined reported sold: $966.8M to 302 investors (latest filing per issuer). Industries as reported: Pooled Investment Fund (4). Issuers are based in CT (2), Cayman Islands (as filed: E9) (2).

What this means $966.8M raised across the group, about $3.2M per investor. Amounts come from each company's latest Form D; they are what the sponsor reported, not audited figures.

Principal people: Empire Capital Management, L.L.C. (4 issuers, promoter, entity), Scott A. Fine (4 issuers, executive officer and director), Empire GP, L.L.C. (2 issuers, promoter, entity), Georgia Prinsloo (2 issuers, director), Lisa Alexander (2 issuers, director) and 2 more.

What this means The person on the most companies is usually the one running the show; their page lists every deal.

Activity: 0 new offerings in the last 12 months; latest filing Jan 15, 2016.

What this means No new raise filed in the past year.

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FINRA, GA, HI, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NASAA, NC, ND, NH, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), property records (NYC, FL, IL and TX counties) — 4 court cases matching the name, 8 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 12 records came back. Each one is listed below with a link to the original document and a line saying why it matched. A name match is not proof it is the same person or company — read the why line and the document. Being sued or named in a release is an accusation, not a finding.

We compared 27 public filings for Empire and found 18 differences, 5 worth asking the sponsor about: Investor count went down between filings; 6 people are no longer listed on a later amendment; and more below.

What this means These are differences between the sponsor's own SEC filings — both values, dates and sources are listed in Key records, section 4. Most have ordinary explanations; ask the sponsor.

What the community is saying

Community search for Empire has not run yet — it is joining a line of 25,937 names; searches run around the clock at the hosts' allowed rate. Searched so far: 638 names.

Community comments are quoted as written by their authors. Sources searched: BiggerPockets forums (via DuckDuckGo, Brave, Bing and BiggerPockets search) and Reddit (search feed + public archive).

Key records

Five things investors ask first. Items still in human review are counted, not shown.

1. Lawsuits

4 cases: 3 dismissed, 1 judgment

First Tennessee Bank National Association v. Empire, LLC dismissed matched at sponsor-group level (Empire)

District Court, D. Nevada · No. 2:13-cv-02345 · Filed Dec 26, 2013 · Closed Jul 2, 2014 · Nature of suit: Contract: Recovery/Enforcement · Cause: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

Role of Empire, LLC: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 2014-07-02 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Voluntarily dismissed Docket on CourtListener ↗

exact company name; name has one distinctive word; court in NV (not the issuer's state)

Trust Company of Sterne Agee Inc, The v. Empire Corporation judgment matched at sponsor-group level (Empire)

District Court, N.D. Alabama · No. 2:11-cv-02820 · Filed Aug 11, 2011 · Closed Sep 20, 2011 · Nature of suit: 190 Other contract actions

Role of Empire Corporation: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 2011-09-20 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Judgment on default; judgment for plaintiff Docket on CourtListener ↗

exact company name; name has one distinctive word; court in AL (not the issuer's state)

Empire Co v. Fenway Holding LLC dismissed matched at sponsor-group level (Empire)

District Court, W.D. Michigan · No. 1:97-cv-00827 · Filed Oct 1, 1997 · Closed Apr 20, 1998 · Nature of suit: 190 Other contract actions

Role of Empire Co: Plaintiff · Outcome: Terminated 1998-04-20 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Dismissed: settled Docket on CourtListener ↗

exact company name; name has one distinctive word; court in MI (not the issuer's state)

Empire, Inc. v. Wal Mart Stores Inc dismissed matched at sponsor-group level (Empire)

District Court, E.D. Kentucky · No. 0:97-cv-00093 · Filed May 5, 1997 · Closed Sep 13, 1999 · Nature of suit: 190 Other contract actions

Role of Empire, Inc.: Plaintiff · Outcome: Terminated 1999-09-13 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Dismissed: settled Docket on CourtListener ↗

exact company name; name has one distinctive word; court in KY (not the issuer's state)

What was searched

Sources searched: CourtListener bulk data (RECAP dockets as of 2026-09-30; recall-first rule 10-24) — federal district + bankruptcy courts State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched. · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:16 AM ET.

Court records show docket facts only; we never restate allegations as facts. Outcome wording comes from the docket feed; where it does not state a disposition we say so.

State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). No state offers a lawful automated statewide source PartnerFacts can use today. Texas (re:SearchTX) terms prohibit storing results in a database open to third parties; New York (WebCivil) and Massachusetts (MassCourts) require a browser check that blocks scripted queries; California has no statewide index (58 county portals; Rule of Court 2.503 grants name-based access case by case); Florida, Utah and Illinois offer paid or partial access whose terms for automated use are unverified. Washington (dw.courts.wa.gov; bulk index reports under a JISC data-dissemination agreement), Delaware (CourtConnect; Court of Chancery not included) and Arizona (apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess, which has an official channel to request high-volume access) are the candidates; PartnerFacts will request written permission before any automated search. Federal courts are searched through CourtListener / RECAP.

2. Regulatory actions

None found in sources searched — SEC enforcement releases (index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) · state securities regulators: VA (crawled Oct 23, 2026)

What was searched

SEC enforcement searched: SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings — respondent names in the sec.gov index titles (30,205 releases, 1995-09-19 to 2026-10-23); release text is read only to confirm a candidate. Names that appear only in the body of a release are not found. — Searched SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings (1995→ / 2007→) (30,205 records as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) — nothing matched Empire..

State securities regulators: Securities regulators searched (3,318 actions): AZ Corporation Commission Securities Division (411 actions, 2017–2026), CA DFPI (25 actions, 2007–2024; listing starts 2002 — 16 of 12,159 DFPI respondent pages read so far; sponsor-name matches are read first), DE DOJ Investor Protection Unit (257 actions, 1987–2026), TX State Securities Board (586 actions, 2006–2026), WA DFI (2,039 actions, 2001–2026) — last crawled Oct 23, 2026, 9:57 PM ET. No machine-readable public listing today for CO, FL, IA, IN, MN, NE, NJ, NY, OH, UT, VA (see docs/state-regulators.md).