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Ackman’s Pershing Square IPO Expected to Raise $5 Billion
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4:28Now PlayingBailey Lipschultz, Bloomberg News Senior Equities Reporter, discusses how much Bill Ackman's Pershing Square IPO is expected to raise.
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s IPO of his closed-end fund and his alternative asset management company is expected to raise about $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, the low end of the targeted fundraising range.
The initial public offering of shares in Pershing Square USA Ltd., which includes free shares of Pershing Square Inc., is about 85% covered by institutional investors, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public. The $5 billion figure includes the $2.8 billion private placement disclosed in US Securities and Exchange Commission filings, the people said.
The deal is expected to to stop taking orders at 4 p.m. New York time on Monday and to price on April 28 as scheduled, the people said. The IPO was targeting as much as $10 billion, according to an earlier statement. The private placement funds are contingent on raising a minimum of $5 billion, Ackman said in an investor presentation.
Deliberations are ongoing and details of the offering could still change, the people said. A representative for Pershing Square declined to comment.
The IPO would bolster Ackman’s shift in recent years toward a more permanent base of capital, letting him pick winners and allow them to bloom without worrying about investors yanking their money. His alternative asset manager has roughly $30.7 billion in total assets under management with $20.7 billion of that in fee-paying assets as of the end of 2025, according to a Pershing Square Inc. filing earlier.
The closed-end fund structure doesn’t provide opportunities for redemptions by investors, and unlike a mutual fund, doesn’t continuously create or redeem shares, meaning prices can trade at a premium or discount to the value of the underlying holdings.
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