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Michael Watts

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · NY · Jul 30, 2014 → Dec 16, 2024

83deals (issuers)

$14.06Breported sold

9,951investors

96Form D filings

2014–2024years on file

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:31 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

Michael Watts is listed as an executive officer on 96 SEC Form D filings by 83 issuers between Jul 2014 and Dec 2024. Largest by amount reported sold: GS Mezzanine Partners VI Offshore, L.P. (New York, NY — pooled investment fund — 2014; $2.4B reported sold to 4 investors), U.S. Real Property Income Fund, L.P. (New York, NY — pooled investment fund — 2020–2022; $2.16B reported sold to 1,585 investors), Broad Street Loan Partners III Offshore, L.P. (Luxembourg, Luxembourg (as filed: N4) — pooled investment fund — 2017; $1.71B reported sold to 13 investors), West Street Real Estate Credit Partners IV, L.P. (New York, NY — pooled investment fund — 2021–2024; $1.25B reported sold to 381 investors), Broad Street Senior Credit Partners II, L.P. (New York, NY — pooled investment fund — 2019; $1.07B reported sold to 910 investors) and 78 more (all listed below).

What this means That is a lot of deals — 83 separate companies raised money with this person listed as executive officer, over about 10 years. Across those companies the filings report $14.06B sold in total.

Listed alongside Clayton Wilmer (96 shared filings), Laurie E. Schmidt (96 shared filings), Richard A. Friedman (96 shared filings), Scott Kilpatrick (91 shared filings), David Thomas (85 shared filings) and 213 others.

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

All 83 issuers belong to the sponsor group Goldman Sachs (463 issuers, $168.32B reported sold, 2009–2026).

What this means A sponsor group is one team that sets up a new company for each deal. Goldman Sachs has 463 companies on file and $168.32B 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, 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) — 6 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 6 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 the newest 50 of 96 public filings for Michael Watts and found 10 differences: 11 bankruptcy cases name the subject or team members; Michael Watts appears on 2 deals that stopped filing before reaching their target; 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

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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, 2:31 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: 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 Michael Watts..

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).

3. Bankruptcies

6 cases: 6 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

Michael D. Watts closed

United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. New York · No. 15-11345 · Filed Jun 24, 2015 · Closed Oct 2, 2015

Role of Michael D. Watts: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2015-10-02 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗