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John MacDonald

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · MA · Sep 14, 2018 → Nov 13, 2018

1deal (issuers)

$459.5Mreported sold

16investors

2Form D filings

2018year on file

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:42 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: not yet

The short version

John MacDonald is listed as a director on 2 SEC Form D filings by 1 issuer between Sep 2018 and Nov 2018: CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES LLC /MA/ /ADV (Boston, MA — investing — 2018; $459.5M reported sold to 16 investors).

What this means One deal on file with the SEC, filed Nov 2018. 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 Bridget Macaskill (2 shared filings), David Druley (2 shared filings), James Bailey (2 shared filings), Philip Walton (2 shared filings), Scott Zoltowski (2 shared filings) and 2 others.

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

The issuer belongs to the sponsor group Ca Resources Fund U S Tax Exempt (22 issuers, $1.53B reported sold, 2013–2026).

What this means A sponsor group is one team that sets up a new company for each deal. Ca Resources Fund U S Tax Exempt has 22 companies on file and $1.53B reported sold in total — the group page shows the whole track record in one place.

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), state securities regulators (AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA) — 13 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below. Not yet searched: SEC enforcement releases (search queued; results are added automatically).

What this means 13 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.

What the community is saying

Nothing found on Reddit, BiggerPockets or community forums for high-net-worth investors (searched Oct 24, 2026) — search queued; this line updates when it has run.

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

None found in sources searched

What was searched

Sources searched: CourtListener bulk data (RECAP dockets as of 2026-09-30; recall-first rule 10-24) — federal district + bankruptcy courts; live RECAP re-check pending. State courts: not yet searched. PACER: not searched. · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:42 AM ET.

State courts: not yet searched. 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

Not yet searched — search queued

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. — not yet searched.

State securities regulators searched: AZ (Corporation Commission Securities Division), CA (DFPI — 16 of 12,159 DFPI respondent pages read so far; sponsor-name matches are read first), DE (DOJ Investor Protection Unit), TX (State Securities Board), WA (DFI) — last crawled Oct 23, 2026, 9:57 PM ET. Other states: not yet searched.

SEC search queued. Results are added automatically.

3. Bankruptcies

13 cases: 13 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

John R. MacDonald closed

United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Massachusetts · No. 19-13390 · Filed Oct 3, 2019 · Closed Jun 18, 2020

Role of John R. MacDonald: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2020-06-18 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗