Bill Ackman, founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, has built his reputation as one of Wall Street's most high-profile corporate agitators on high-stakes activist campaigns ...

Bill Ackman founded Pershing Square Capital Management ... Fellow activist investor Carl Icahn took the opposite stance on Herbalife. He began building a long position in the company, eventually ...

Ackman and Icahn squared off over Herbalife in the best moment in financial ... He and his wife also joined Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in the Giving Pledge committing at least half of their ...

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“Herbalife is destined to become one of the ... epic battle with billionaire New York hedge fund activist investor Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management firm in 2012 placed ...

The board deemed Pershing Square Capital’s acquisition proposal “not acceptable in its current form,” and both sides signed a ...

Bill Ackman has a highly concentrated portfolio ... However, he also had an epic loss of over $1 billion in a short position on Herbalife in 2018. In 2022, Ackman said he had “permanently ...