William Ackman
Chairman at HOWARD HUGHES HOLDINGS INC.
Profile
William (Bill) Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, an American hedge fund that holds shares in Wendy’s International and McDonald’s Corporation. As well it has interest in Target Corp., the second largest discount company in US.
Graduated at Harvard College, he holds also an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began his career working for his father in the real estate, and in 1993 he founded Gotham Partners Management Co. This investment company encounters some troubles including legal problems that will lead to its dissolution in 2003.
In 2004, William Ackman comes back on the financial stage. He has created Pershing Square Capital, and he showed a lot of activism buying massive share in the lowest price for resale in two years maximum. A short-term strategy often criticized by the US Medias. His different attacks against FSA, American division of Dexia, and also against MBIA and Ambac, that it forecast the collapse, earned him a strong enmity in financial world.
In 2007, William Ackman took a share up to 5 millions of dollar (3,5%) in Sears Holdings, third group in distribution sector in US, behind Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
Pershing Square Capital Management manages approximately 2.4 billion of dollar of which 40% was invested in shares of McDonald.
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William Ackman active positions
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UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP N.V. | Director/Board Member | 2022-05-11 |
HOWARD HUGHES HOLDINGS INC. | Chairman | 2009-12-31 |
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance provides cancer research services. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2013 by Olivia Tournay Flatto. | Director/Board Member | - |
Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd.
Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd. is a blank check company. It engages in effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on November 3, 2021 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Chief Executive Officer | - |
The Rockefeller University | Director/Board Member | - |
Pershing Square Capital Management LP
Pershing Square Capital Management LP Investment ManagersFinance Pershing Square Capital Management LP (PSCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2003 by William Ackman and David Berkowitz. PSCM provides investment advisory services to a variety of private investment funds. | Chief Executive Officer | 2002-12-31 |
Pershing Square International Ltd.
Pershing Square International Ltd. Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Pershing Square International Ltd. provides investment advisory services. Its services include financial analysis, information regarding mergers and acquisitions. The company is located in New York, NY | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Pershing Square Foundation | Founder | 2005-12-31 |
Former positions of William Ackman
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The Howard Hughes Corp.
The Howard Hughes Corp. Real Estate DevelopmentFinance The Howard Hughes Corp. engages in the development and management of commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate. It operates through the following segments: Operating Assets, Master Planned Communities, Seaport District, and Strategic Developments. The Operating Assets segment consists of retail, office, hospitality, and multi-family properties along with other real estate investments. The Master Planned Communities segment focuses on the development and sale of land in large-scale, long-term community development projects in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, Houston, Texas, and Columbia, Maryland. The Seaport District operates approximately 453,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, and entertainment properties situated in three primary locations in New York, New York: Pier 17, Historic Area/Uplands, and Tin Building. The Strategic Developments segment is involved in other real estate assets in the form of entitled and unentitled land and residential condominium developments. The company was founded in July 2010 and is headquartered in Woodlands, TX. | Chairman | 2023-08-10 |
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Training of William Ackman
Harvard Business School | Masters Business Admin |
Harvard College | Undergraduate Degree |
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Linked companies
Listed companies | 4 |
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ZOETIS INC. | Health Technology |
BAUSCH HEALTH COMPANIES INC. | Health Technology |
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP N.V. | Commercial Services |
HOWARD HUGHES HOLDINGS INC. | Finance |
Private companies | 18 |
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Winthrop Realty Trust, Inc.
Winthrop Realty Trust, Inc. Real Estate Investment TrustsFinance Winthrop Realty Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which engages in the business of ownership, management and lending to real estate and related investments. The company was founded on August 1,1961 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Finance |
Old COPPER Co., Inc.
Old COPPER Co., Inc. Apparel/Footwear RetailRetail Trade Old COPPER Co., Inc. engages in the operation of retail stores of apparel, home, jewelry, and beauty merchandise. The company was founded by James Cash Penney in 1902 and is headquartered in Plano, TX. | Retail Trade |
GGP, Inc.
GGP, Inc. Real Estate Investment TrustsFinance GGP, Inc. is a holding company. It operates, manages, develops, and acquires retail and other rental properties in regional malls. Its portfolio of regional malls represents a collection of retail properties that are targeted to a range of market sizes and consumer tastes. The company was founded by Matthew Bucksbaum and Martin Bucksbaum in 1954 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. | Finance |
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. RailroadsTransportation Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. operates as a holding company, which engages in the provision of rail services. It offers a suite of freight transportation services, logistics solutions and supply chain expertise. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. | Transportation |
Imperial Parking Corp.
Imperial Parking Corp. Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Imperial Parking Corp. provides parking management services. The firm offers staffing solutions, operation services, reporting, and parking and transportation systems and services. It also designs and constructs signage for parking and non-parking related structures. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | Consumer Services |
Gotham Partners LP
Gotham Partners LP Financial ConglomeratesFinance Part of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, Gotham Partners LP is a private equity firm. The private company is based in New York, NY. | Finance |
Pershing Square International Ltd.
Pershing Square International Ltd. Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Pershing Square International Ltd. provides investment advisory services. Its services include financial analysis, information regarding mergers and acquisitions. The company is located in New York, NY | Miscellaneous |
Justice Holdings Ltd.
Justice Holdings Ltd. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Justice Holdings Ltd. operates as a holding company with the strategy of acquiring a target business. The company's efforts in identifying a prospective target business are not limited to a particular industry or geographic region. The company was founded by William A. Ackman, Nicolas Berggruen and Martin E. Franklin on February 7, 2011 and is headquartered in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. | Finance |
Gotham Partners Management Co. LLC
Gotham Partners Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Founded in 2003 by William Ackman and David Berkowitz, Pershing Square Capital Management LP is a hedge fund manager located in New York City. The firm provides investment advisory services to a variety of private investment funds. Investors in the funds may include high net worth individuals, pension funds and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, business entities, endowments and foreign sovereign wealth funds. | Finance |
Pershing Square Capital Management LP
Pershing Square Capital Management LP Investment ManagersFinance Pershing Square Capital Management LP (PSCM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2003 by William Ackman and David Berkowitz. PSCM provides investment advisory services to a variety of private investment funds. | Finance |
The Howard Hughes Corp.
The Howard Hughes Corp. Real Estate DevelopmentFinance The Howard Hughes Corp. engages in the development and management of commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate. It operates through the following segments: Operating Assets, Master Planned Communities, Seaport District, and Strategic Developments. The Operating Assets segment consists of retail, office, hospitality, and multi-family properties along with other real estate investments. The Master Planned Communities segment focuses on the development and sale of land in large-scale, long-term community development projects in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, Houston, Texas, and Columbia, Maryland. The Seaport District operates approximately 453,000 square feet of restaurant, retail, and entertainment properties situated in three primary locations in New York, New York: Pier 17, Historic Area/Uplands, and Tin Building. The Strategic Developments segment is involved in other real estate assets in the form of entitled and unentitled land and residential condominium developments. The company was founded in July 2010 and is headquartered in Woodlands, TX. | Finance |
Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Other TransportationTransportation Canadian Pacific Railway Co. provides rail and intermodal freight transportation services across Canada. It offers bulk, intermodal, and merchandise transportation. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. | Transportation |
Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc. Services to the Health IndustryHealth Services Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc. provides child and youth care services. The firm offers education, cultural enrichment, and social services. The company was founded by Anthony Drexel Duke in 1937 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Health Services |
Pershing Square Foundation | |
Pershing Square Holdings Ltd.
Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. is a closed-end investment fund. Its investment objective is to preserve capital and to seek maximum, long-term capital appreciation commensurate with reasonable risk. The company seeks to achieve its investment objective through long and short positions in equity or debt securities of public U.S. and non-U.S. issuer?s derivative instruments and any other financial instruments. Pershing Square Holdings was founded on February 2, 2012 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, the United Kingdom. | Miscellaneous |
Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd.
Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd. is a blank check company, which formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more entities. The company was founded on May 4, 2020 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Finance |
Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd.
Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd. is a blank check company. It engages in effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on November 3, 2021 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Finance |
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance provides cancer research services. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2013 by Olivia Tournay Flatto. | Commercial Services |
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