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James L Learner

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · United Kingdom (as filed: X0) · Jul 10, 2009 → Jul 10, 2009

1deal (issuers)
$0reported sold
0investors
1Form D filing
2009year on file
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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:19 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

James L Learner is listed as an executive officer on 1 SEC Form D filing by 1 issuer in Jul 2009: K&E Investment Partners, L.P. - 2009 PEF (Chicago, IL — pooled investment fund — 2009).

What this means One deal on file with the SEC, filed Jul 2009. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment — it is a notice, not an approval.

Listed alongside JACK S. LEVIN (1 shared filing), Jeffrey C. Hammes (1 shared filing) and MATTHEW E. STEINMETZ (1 shared filing).

What this means These are the other officers, directors or promoters the companies named on the same forms — the team around James. Each name links to their own page.

The issuer belongs to the sponsor group Randolph Street (20 issuers, $86.8M reported sold, 2009–2026).

What this means A sponsor group is one team that sets up a new company for each deal. Randolph Street has 20 companies on file and $86.8M reported sold in total — the group page shows the whole track record in one place.

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FINRA, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NASAA, NC, ND, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY) — 3 court cases matching the name, 4 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 7 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 1 public filing for James L Learner and found 3 differences, 1 worth asking the sponsor about: 2 court cases name James L Learner; 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 James L Learner has not run yet — it is joining a line of 31,291 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: Bing (site:reddit.com / site:biggerpockets.com) and Reddit's own search, plus DuckDuckGo/Brave/BiggerPockets search when they are answering.

Key records

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

1. Lawsuits

3 cases: 1 closed (disposition not in docket feed), 2 dismissed

Kaufman v. Little Learner Children's Academy LLC closed
District Court, N.D. Illinois · No. 1:23-cv-05409 · Filed Aug 11, 2023 · Closed Sep 25, 2023
Role of Little Learner Children's Academy LLC: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 2023-09-25 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); different first name (little); court in the person's filing state (IL)
AssetCare, Inc. v. The Learner Company dismissed
District Court, N.D. California · No. 3:03-cv-01084 · Filed Mar 13, 2003 · Closed Jun 30, 2003 · Nature of suit: 893 Environmental matters
Role of The Learner Company: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 2003-06-30 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Dismissed: settled Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); surname only in the caption; court in CA (not a filing state)
San Francisco Bay v. Learner Company dismissed
District Court, E.D. California · No. 2:98-cv-00720 · Filed Apr 22, 1998 · Closed Apr 27, 1999 · Nature of suit: 893 Environmental matters
Role of Learner Company: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 1999-04-27 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Dismissed: settled Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); surname only in the caption; court in CA (not a filing 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, 2:19 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: 48 regulators (FINRA, NASAA, 37 states) — crawled Oct 24, 2026, 8:48 AM ET

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 James L Learner..

State securities regulators: Securities regulators searched (64,910 actions): FINRA (38,350 actions, 1995–2026), NASAA (31 actions, 2000–2026; listing starts 1997), AK Division of Banking and Securities (273 actions, 1971–2025), AL Securities Commission (880 actions, 2001–2026), AR Securities Department (1,305 actions, 1998–2026), 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), CO Division of Securities (731 actions, 2001–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2026-05-02)), CT Department of Banking Securities Division (940 actions, 2006–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2026-04-22)), DC DISB Securities Bureau (25 actions, 2012–2026), DE DOJ Investor Protection Unit (257 actions, 1987–2026), FL Office of Financial Regulation (49 actions, 2018–2026), GA Secretary of State Securities Division (65 actions, 2015–2026; listing starts 2012), HI DCCA Securities Enforcement Branch (26 actions, 2012–2026), ID Department of Finance Securities Bureau (663 actions, 1994–2026), IL Secretary of State Securities Department (4,122 actions, 2003–2023), KS Insurance Department Securities Division (58 actions), KY Department of Financial Institutions (342 actions, 2005–2026), LA Office of Financial Institutions Securities Division (13 actions, 2010–2025; listing starts 2008), MA Secretary of the Commonwealth Securities Division (125 actions, 2012–2025; live site blocks automated access — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-02-04), MD Attorney General Securities Division (1,054 actions, 2004–2026), ME Office of Securities (539 actions, 2000–2026), MI LARA Corporations, Securities & Commercial Licensing Bureau (201 actions), MO Secretary of State Securities Division (919 actions, 1998–2026), MS Secretary of State Securities Division (209 actions, 1995–2026), MT Commissioner of Securities and Insurance (597 actions, 2000–2026), NC Secretary of State Securities Division (265 actions, 2004–2024), ND Securities Department (711 actions, 1990–2026; the regulator no longer publishes this list live — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-01-06), NH Bureau of Securities Regulation (402 actions, 2002–2026), NM Regulation and Licensing Department Securities Division (90 actions, 2010–2025), NV Secretary of State Securities Division (118 actions, 2018–2026), NY Attorney General Investor Protection Bureau (44 actions, 2012–2026), OH Division of Securities (327 actions, 1993–2006), OK Department of Securities (2,531 actions, 1998–2026), OR Division of Financial Regulation (589 actions, 1988–2026), PA Department of Banking and Securities (1,448 actions, 2008–2024; the regulator no longer publishes this list live — loaded from the Internet Archive snapshot of 2024-08-09), RI DBR Securities Division (98 actions, 2005–2025), SC Attorney General Securities Division (540 actions, 2006–2026), SD Division of Insurance – Securities Regulation (106 actions, 2017–2026), TN Department of Commerce and Insurance Securities Division (405 actions, 1992–2026), TX State Securities Board (936 actions, 1999–2026), UT Division of Securities (772 actions, 2000–2026; older years from the Internet Archive (snapshot of 2010-05-27)), VT DFR Securities Division (137 actions, 2010–2026), WA DFI (2,039 actions, 2001–2026), WI DFI Division of Securities (1,072 actions, 1998–2026), WV Securities Commission (State Auditor) (64 actions), WY Secretary of State Compliance Division (6 actions, 2016–2024) — last crawled Oct 24, 2026, 8:48 AM ET. No machine-readable public listing today for IA, IN, MN, NE, NJ, VA (see docs/state-regulators.md).

3. Bankruptcies

4 cases: 4 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

William T. Learner-Lange and Tammy L. Learner closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Alabama · No. 17-41699 · Filed Sep 19, 2017 · Closed Jan 4, 2018
Role of William T. Learner-Lange and Tammy L. Learner: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2018-01-04 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); different first name (william); court in AL (not a filing state)
Robert Learner Manning and Teresa Lynn Manning closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Colorado · No. 14-18950 · Filed Jun 27, 2014 · Closed Nov 5, 2014
Role of Robert Learner Manning and Teresa Lynn Manning: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2014-11-05 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); different first name (robert); court in CO (not a filing state)
Every Learner Inc closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, C.D. Illinois · No. 09-92370 · Filed Nov 12, 2009 · Closed Feb 9, 2010
Role of Every Learner Inc: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2010-02-09 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); different first name (every); court in the person's filing state (IL)
Robert Learner Manning and Teresa Lynn Manning closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Oregon · No. 01-41129 · Filed Nov 7, 2001 · Closed Feb 28, 2002
Role of Robert Learner Manning and Teresa Lynn Manning: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2002-02-28 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
same rare surname (4 people in Form D filings, 14 federal dockets); different first name (robert); court in OR (not a filing state)
What was searched

Sources searched: Federal bankruptcy courts via CourtListener / RECAP archive (federal district courts, federal bankruptcy courts). State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched (RECAP only). · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:19 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.

4. Differences between public sources

Comparisons cover issuers and sponsor groups — see the issuer pages under Deals

3 differences found between the filings for James L Learner — 1 worth asking about (compared 1 filing on Oct 24, 2026)

Worth asking · Apr 22, 1998 – Mar 13, 2003

2 court cases name James L Learner — 2 as defendant

By role: defendant in 2. Newest: "AssetCare, Inc. v. The Learner Company" (District Court, N.D. California, Mar 13, 2003); "San Francisco Bay v. Learner Company" (District Court, E.D. California, Apr 22, 1998). Some of these are name matches with a match estimate below 95% — check each docket.

What this means Several court cases name this subject. Some are routine business suits. Ask what each was about and how it ended.

Docket · AssetCare, Inc. v. The Learner Company ↗Docket · San Francisco Bay v. Learner Company ↗
Sources
Note · Jul 10, 2009

James L Learner appears on 1 deal that stopped filing before reaching its target

K&E Investment Partners, L.P. - 2009 PEF (last filing Jul 10, 2009; $0 sold of $20,000,000). Each has no filing in more than two years and reported under half its target sold.

What this means An issuer whose last filing is more than two years old and reported under half its target sold. The raise may have closed early or quietly stopped. Ask what happened to each.

K&E Investment Partners, L.P. - 2009 PEF — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · Feb 28, 2014 – Dec 18, 2014

Same name, different state: "JAMES L. LEARNER" (CA) is a separate record

This page covers filings where the address state is X0. A separate record, "JAMES L. LEARNER" with address state CA, is listed on 15 filings — most recently by Citadel Plastics Holdings, LLC (Jan 13, 2015). The two records do not overlap in time: this page has one filing dated Jul 10, 2009; the other runs Feb 28, 2014 to Dec 18, 2014.

What this means Could be the same person who moved, or two people with the same name. We keep them apart until a filing ties them together. Check both pages before you decide.

JAMES L. LEARNER (CA) — PartnerFacts page ↗Form D · Jan 13, 2015 ↗Citadel Plastics Holdings, LLC — PartnerFacts page ↗James L Learner (X0) — this page ↗
Sources
What is compared

What is compared: every Form D and D/A we hold for this subject, side by side — filing dates vs. first-sale dates (the 15-day rule), amendment timing on open offerings (the yearly-amendment expectation), amounts sold, investor counts, offering amounts and minimums across amendments, industry and size bands, addresses, how each person's name and role is written, paid sellers' CRD numbers, and (for groups) where the member companies were formed and sit. Everything is as filed by the issuer; the SEC does not check it. Differences are common and usually have ordinary explanations — we show both values, the dates, and the source so you can ask. As of Oct 24, 2026.

5. Money to insiders

0 of 1 offering report sales commissions; 0 report finder's fees; 1 reports proceeds to related persons totalling $50. (includes amounts the issuer reported as estimates)

Offering (latest filing)Sales commissionsFinder's feesTo insidersPaid to sell itSource
Jul 10, 2009 D
K&E Investment Partners, L.P. - 2009 PEF
File 021-132595
$0$0$50 (est.)
Estimated aggregate amount for the first 10 years; thereafter the Issuer shall continue to pay management fees.
None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
How this is counted

Counts come from Form D Items 12–15 on the filings in our index (latest filing per offering; one offering = one SEC file number; an amendment updates its offering rather than adding one). "To insiders" = gross proceeds used for payments to executive officers, directors or promoters. "—" = not reported on that filing. Amounts marked (est.) were reported as estimates. "Paid to sell it" = sales compensation recipients named on that filing (Item 12), each linked to FINRA BrokerCheck when a CRD number is reported.

Counted across every filing this person is listed on (latest filing per offering, per issuer).

Deals 1

Every issuer that named James L Learner on a Form D, newest first. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment.

KE
Pooled Investment Fund · group: Randolph Street

K&E Investment Partners, L.P. - 2009 PEF

Chicago, IL · Jul 10, 2009
  • Jul 10, 2009 · D · $0 sold of $20,000,000 · 0 investors · min. $10,000 · role: Executive Officer EDGAR ↗

No sales reported yet as of the latest filing. James is listed as executive officer.

Latest filing on EDGAR ↗
Sources

Every row is a Form D or D/A on which the issuer listed this name as a related person. Amount sold and investors are the maximum reported on any filing for this issuer.

Other pages with the same name (1)

Separate person records under the same name, not combined with this page. Each line says whether it shares an issuer with this record.

  • JAMES L. LEARNER — CA, 9 issuers, Feb 28, 2014 → Dec 18, 2014 · no shared issuer

People around James 3

Officers, directors, promoters and management entities named on the same filings, as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET.

MS
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Person

MATTHEW E. STEINMETZ

Executive Officer · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 17 other issuers

MATTHEW E. STEINMETZ is on 18 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

JH
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Person

Jeffrey C. Hammes

Executive Officer · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 1 other issuer

Listed on the same filings as James L Learner. Their page shows their other deals.

JL
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Person

JACK S. LEVIN

Executive Officer · 1 shared filing (1 issuer) · also on 17 other issuers

JACK S. LEVIN is on 18 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

The team behind the deals

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Sponsor group

Randolph Street

20 issuers · 28 filings · $86.8M reported sold · 2009–2026

One team, 20 deal companies. James L Learner is listed on 1 of them.

Sources

Issuers are grouped when their Form D filings share related persons, a management entity or a business address (automatic match from the filings). "Listed" marks the issuers that name James L Learner.

Same business address

6 other issuers file from the same address

A shared address can mean the same team, a shared office building or a registered agent. It is a lead, not a conclusion.

Registrations and other filings

Business registration (state registry / Secretary of State)

Individuals are not matched to business registrations — registries list companies, and a name alone is not enough to tie a person to one. Officers and managers appear by name inside each matched company's record on the issuer pages. Registries searched: AL (Alabama Secretary of State — Business Entity Records (arc-sos.state.al.us), searched by issuer name, data as of Oct 24, 2026); CO (Colorado Secretary of State — Business Entities in Colorado (data.colorado.gov), data as of Oct 23, 2026); CT (Connecticut Secretary of the State — Business Registry (data.ct.gov), data as of Oct 24, 2026); FL (Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations — quarterly corporate data file (Sunbiz), data as of Oct 7, 2026); NY (New York Department of State — Corporations and Other Entities (data.ny.gov: All Filings + Active Corporations), data as of Oct 20, 2026); OR (Oregon Secretary of State — Active Businesses, All (data.oregon.gov), data as of Oct 20, 2026); PA (Pennsylvania Department of State — Registered Businesses, Current (data.pa.gov), data as of Oct 6, 2026); TX (Texas Comptroller — Active Franchise Taxpayers incl. Secretary of State file data (data.texas.gov), data as of Oct 24, 2026). Registries of other states have not been searched: many publish no bulk file and require a CAPTCHA or bot challenge on their search page, which we do not bypass (Delaware, for example, offers no public bulk file).

Adviser registration (Form ADV)

None of the 1 issuer this person is listed on appears in Form ADV (searched 24,962 advisers as of Oct 2, 2026). A person is never an adviser firm; Form ADV is checked for the issuers and the management companies they are listed with.

Other offering types (Regulation A and Regulation Crowdfunding)

Searched SEC Regulation A Data Sets (Forms 1-A, 1-K, 1-Z; 2015 Q2 → 2026 Q3); SEC Crowdfunding Offerings Data Sets (Form C family; 2016 Q2 → 2026 Q3); EDGAR form index for 2026 Q3 → 2026 Q4 (51,358 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:41 PM ET) — nothing matched this name.

Property records none — individuals are not matched

Property records are matched to companies only, never to individuals, so none are matched to James L Learner by design. Searched property records in Hillsborough County FL (Clerk recorded-document index Oct 14, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026 + FL DOR 2026 ownership roll), Miami-Dade County FL (FL DOR 2026 ownership roll), Harris County TX (HCAD 2026 ownership roll), Dallas County TX (DCAD 2026 ownership roll), New York City ACRIS documents and PLUTO ownership rows already retrieved for other issuers, Cook County IL sale and ownership rows already retrieved for other issuers (814,874 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET) for the 1 issuer this person is listed on — nothing matched.

Public profiles and social

Websites and social links of the issuers James L Learner is listed on: none on file. No website or social profile named in K&E Investment Partners, L.P. - 2009 PEF's SEC filings (Form C, Reg A, Form ADV; checked Oct 24, 2026). Web search for this name: #369,701 of 374,652 in line (1,386 issuers searched so far). One-tap searches: Look further ↓

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Business registries

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