Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. Announces Sale of 10% Common Equity Interest for $1.05 Billion to Strategic Investors
Pershing Square Establishes Independent Board of Directors
“We are delighted to invite a group of world-class, long-term partners as investors in our business, which has been entirely owned by Pershing Square employees since our inception more than 20 years ago,” said Pershing Square Founder and CEO Bill Ackman. He continued: “This new investment will help accelerate our growth in assets under management in existing and new strategies. As always, Pershing Square will remain intensely focused on generating high, long-term returns for our investors.”
Concurrent with the closing of the minority investment, Pershing Square has established an independent Board of Directors consisting of five independent directors and four affiliates of PSCM. The independent directors are Kerry Murphy Healey, President Emerita of Babson College; Orion Hindawi, Executive Chairman of Tanium; Marco Kheirallah, partner at Lumina Capital; Nicholas Lamotte, Executive Chairman of Consulta; and Christine Todd, Chief Investment Officer of Arch Capital Group. The affiliate directors are Bill Ackman, Chairman and CEO; Ryan Israel, CIO; Nick Botta, Vice Chairman; and Halit Coussin, Chief Legal Officer.
In connection with the transaction, PSCM is completing an internal reorganization of its ownership structure (the “Reorganization”) which will result in the voting securities of Pershing Square being indirectly owned by a limited liability company (“the LLC”), an entity which will be controlled by senior management of Pershing Square including Bill Ackman who is the largest shareholder of the LLC.
The Reorganization will result in a deemed assignment under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, but will not affect PSCM’s provision of investment management services to the funds managed by PSCM. The purpose of the reorganization is a technical one, that is, to minimize the likelihood of any future deemed assignment, an issue that was important to resolve in connection with the strategic sale transaction. In connection with the Reorganization, each of PSCM’s funds, including Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd., approved the deemed assignment of its Investment Management Agreement. The approval of the assignment will have no impact on PSCM’s management team and its role in managing the Pershing Square funds.
Also, in conjunction with today’s announcement, Ben Hakim has been appointed as President of PSCM in addition to his continuing role as a member of the Investment Team. Mr. Hakim, a Partner at Pershing Square, joined the Investment Team in 2012 following 13 years at The Blackstone Group where he was a Senior Managing Director. Nick Botta will become Vice Chairman of PSCM and join the Pershing Square board. He previously served as President of PSCM.
BofA Securities, Citigroup, Evolve, Jefferies, and UBS Investment Bank served as placement agents, and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as legal advisors to PSCM on the transaction. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP served as legal advisor to the
Kerry Murphy Healey
Kerry Murphy Healey is President Emerita of Babson College and a lecturer at
Dr. Healey was the inaugural president of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in
Prior to her public service, Dr. Healey worked for more than a decade as a public policy consultant to the United States Department of Justice for
Orion Hindawi
Orion Hindawi is the Executive Chairman and former CEO of Tanium, a private venture-backed endpoint management and cyber security company. Orion co-founded Tanium in 2007 and serves as its executive chairman. Orion drives the strategic vision and technical innovation at Tanium, as well as engagement with its strategic partners and customers. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix, Inc. (acquired by IBM in 2010) and Tanium, in addition to holding multiple software patents in network communications and systems management. Orion works closely every day with Tanium customers in pursuit of inventing new approaches for solving the significant challenges IT departments face securing and managing large, global enterprise environments.
Marco Kheirallah
Marco Kheirallah is a founding partner at Lumina Capital, a special situations investment firm founded in 2022 in
Nicholas Lamotte
Nicholas Lamotte is the Executive Chairman of Consulta Limited, a value-oriented investment firm. Mr. Lamotte was appointed Executive Chairman in 2024, having served as Chairman of the Board since 2019. From 2008 to 2019, Mr. Lamotte served in various roles at Consulta, including Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman. Prior to joining Consulta, Mr. Lamotte was an analyst at Halcyon Asset Management from 2006 to 2008 and an analyst at Goldman Sachs from 2005 to 2006. Mr. Lamotte received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Lamotte has completed the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School and has endowed the Nicholas M. Lamotte Scholarship for Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations at Brown University.
Christine Todd
Christine Todd is Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd. and President of Arch Investment Management Ltd. She joined Arch in June 2021 and has responsibility for setting the firm’s investment strategy and managing the day-to-day operations of the investment portfolio. Prior to joining Arch, Ms. Todd was Head of Fixed Income,
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