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William S Daugherty

Named as an officer, director or promoter on SEC Form D filings · KY · Mar 5, 2009 → Jan 14, 2025

22deals (issuers)

$64.2Mreported sold

474investors

36Form D filings

2009–2025years on file

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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:17 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: not yet

The short version

William S Daugherty is listed as an executive officer and director on 36 SEC Form D filings by 22 issuers between Mar 2009 and Jan 2025. Largest by amount reported sold: NGAS Resources Inc (Lexington, KY — oil and gas — 2010; $33.9M reported sold to 4 investors), NGAS Partners 2010-A, Ltd. (Lexington, KY — oil and gas — 2010; $20M reported sold to 376 investors), BlackRidge Big Lime Partners 2022, Ltd. (Lexington, KY — oil and gas — 2023; $1.5M reported sold to 13 investors), BlackRidge Big Lime Partners 2024, Ltd. (Lexington, KY — oil and gas — 2025; $1.45M reported sold to 16 investors), BlackRidge Berea Partners 2021, Ltd. (Lexington, KY — oil and gas — 2021; $950K reported sold to 6 investors) and 17 more (all listed below).

What this means That is a lot of deals — 22 separate companies raised money with this person listed as executive officer and director, over about 16 years. Across those companies the filings report $64.2M sold in total.

Listed alongside William G Barr III (35 shared filings), D. Michael Wallen (17 shared filings), Michael P. Windisch (17 shared filings), Brint Camp (16 shared filings), John R. Bender (15 shared filings) and 22 others.

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

21 of the issuers belong to the sponsor group Blackridge Berea (28 issuers, $247.4M reported sold, 2009–2025).

What this means A sponsor group is one team that sets up a new company for each deal. Blackridge Berea has 28 companies on file and $247.4M 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) — 7 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below. Not yet searched: SEC enforcement releases.

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.

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, 2:17 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

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.

No SEC search has run yet for this person.

3. Bankruptcies

7 cases: 7 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

William M Daugherty, II closed

United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Kentucky · No. 21-50368 · Filed Mar 31, 2021 · Closed Jul 28, 2021

Role of William M Daugherty, II: Debtor · Outcome: Case closed 2021-07-28 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗