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Kevin Early

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · NY · Oct 13, 2021 → Jun 13, 2023

1deal (issuers)
$300Mreported sold
35investors
3Form D filings
2021–2023years on file

Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:51 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

Kevin Early is listed as an executive officer on 3 SEC Form D filings by 1 issuer between Oct 2021 and Jun 2023: CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund (New York, NY — investing — 2021–2023; $300M reported sold to 35 investors).

What this means One deal on file with the SEC. 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 Anton Feingold (3 shared filings), Blair Jacobson (3 shared filings), Bruce H. Spector (3 shared filings), David Sachs (3 shared filings), Greg Margolies (3 shared filings) and 19 others.

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

The issuer belongs to the sponsor group Ares (213 issuers, $113.9B reported sold, 2009–2026).

What this means A sponsor group is one team that sets up a new company for each deal. Ares has 213 companies on file and $113.9B 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) — 1 bankruptcy case matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 1 record 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 3 public filings for Kevin Early and found 1 difference, 1 worth asking the sponsor about: Form D filed 75 days after the first sale.

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 Kevin Early has not run yet — it is joining a line of 37,006 names; searches run around the clock at the hosts' allowed rate. Searched so far: 641 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

None found in sources searched — federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), checked Oct 24, 2026

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, 2:51 AM ET.

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 Kevin Early..

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

1 case: 1 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

Kevin M. Early closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Michigan · No. 00-56674 · Filed Nov 2, 2000 · Closed Oct 2, 2001
Role of Kevin M. Early: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2001-10-02 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
same full name (a name found in 10 federal dockets); court in MI (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, 2:51 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

1 difference found between the filings for Kevin Early — 1 worth asking about (compared 3 filings on Oct 24, 2026)

Worth asking · Jul 30, 2021 – Oct 13, 2021

Form D filed 75 days after the first sale — CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund

The filing says the first sale was Jul 30, 2021. The Form D was filed Oct 13, 2021 — 75 days later. The rule: a Form D is generally due within 15 days after the first sale, so this one is 60 days past that.

What this means A late notice is common and carries no penalty by itself. It is worth asking the sponsor why the paperwork lagged.

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

3 of 3 offerings report sales commissions totalling $5,700,000; 0 report finder's fees; 0 report proceeds to related persons.

Offering (latest filing)Sales commissionsFinder's feesTo insidersPaid to sell itSource
Jun 13, 2023 D
CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund
File 021-484044
$1,500,000$0$0Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC BrokerCheck CRD 361 ↗
via Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (CRD 361 ↗)
EDGAR ↗
Jan 12, 2022 D
CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund
File 021-428964
$1,200,000$0$0Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC BrokerCheck CRD 361 ↗
via Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (CRD 361 ↗)
EDGAR ↗
Oct 13, 2021 D
CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund
File 021-416828
$3,000,000$0$0Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC BrokerCheck CRD 361 ↗
via Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (CRD 361 ↗)
EDGAR ↗
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 Kevin Early on a Form D, newest first. A Form D is the notice a company files after it starts selling a private investment.

Investing · group: Ares

CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund

New York, NY · Oct 13, 2021 → Jun 13, 2023 · 3 filings
  • Jun 13, 2023 · D · $150,000,000 sold of $150,000,000 · 28 investors · min. No minimum reported · role: Executive Officer (Vice President) EDGAR ↗
  • Jan 12, 2022 · D · $120,000,000 sold of $120,000,000 · 26 investors · min. No minimum reported · role: Executive Officer (Vice President) EDGAR ↗
  • Oct 13, 2021 · D · $300,000,000 sold of $300,000,000 · 35 investors · min. No minimum reported · role: Executive Officer (Vice President) EDGAR ↗

Raised $300M from 35 investors (100% of the $150M target) as of the latest filing. Kevin is listed as executive officer on 3 filings for this deal.

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. "Similar" = offerings in the same industry claiming the same exemption, filed in the last 5 years: Investing / 506(c) (764 filings); ranges are the middle half (25th–75th percentile). Computed by PartnerFacts from SEC EDGAR Form D data as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET. Rows without a range: fewer than 30 comparable filings, or not a Rule 506 offering. No ranking or score.

People around Kevin 24

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

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Blair Jacobson

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 27 other issuers

Blair Jacobson is on 28 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

JS
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John Joseph Shaw

Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

GM
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Greg Margolies

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 3 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

DS
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David Sachs

Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 9 other issuers

David Sachs is on 10 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

JB
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Joshua M. Bloomstein

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 29 other issuers

Joshua M. Bloomstein is on 30 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

MR
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Michael A. Reisner

Executive Officer, Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 3 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

MG
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Mark Gatto

Executive Officer, Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 4 other issuers

Mark Gatto is on 5 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

MY
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Mark R. Yosowitz

Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

MD
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Michael Dennis

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 13 other issuers

Michael Dennis is on 14 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

AF
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Anton Feingold

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 3 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

PR
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Penni F. Roll

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 1 other issuer

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

JA
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John Atherton

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 3 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

BS
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Bruce H. Spector

Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

JP
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Jeffrey Perlowitz

Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

MG
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Person

Mitch Goldstein

Executive Officer, Director · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

NA
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Naseem Sagati Aghili

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

GS
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Greg Schill

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

LM
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Lisa Morgan

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 2 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

IF
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Ian Fitzgerald

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 2 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

SL
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Scott Lem

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 3 other issuers

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

KK
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Keith Kooper

Executive Officer · 3 shared filings (1 issuer) · also on 43 other issuers

Keith Kooper is on 44 issuers in total — a repeat sponsor. Their page lists every one.

PP
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Paula B. Pretlow

Director · 2 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

MK
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Person

Miriam Krieger

Executive Officer · 2 shared filings (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

EO
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Elaine Orr

Director · 1 shared filing (1 issuer)

Listed on the same filings as Kevin Early. Their page shows their other deals.

The team behind the deals

Sponsor group

Ares

213 issuers · 354 filings · $113.9B reported sold · 2009–2026

One team, 213 deal companies. Kevin Early 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 Kevin Early.

Same business address

1 other issuer 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 Kevin Early 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 Kevin Early is listed on: none on file. No website or social profile named in CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund's SEC filings (Form C, Reg A, Form ADV; checked Oct 24, 2026). Web search for this name: #123,566 of 374,652 in line (1,386 issuers searched so far). One-tap searches: Look further ↓

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