Billionaire investor William Ackman, who had raised $4bn in the biggest-ever special purpose acquisition company, told investors he would be returning the sum after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger.
The development is a major setback for the prominent hedge fund manager who had initially planned for the SPAC to take a stake in Universal Music Group last year when these investment vehicles were all the rage on Wall Street.
In July 2020, Pershing Square Tontine raised $4 billion in its initial public offering and wooed prominent investors ranging from hedge fund Baupost Group, Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers and mutual fund company T. Rowe Price Group.
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