Author: Vitaliy Dadalyan

What You Need To Know About Bill Ackman's New SPAC

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is sponsoring the largest special purpose acquisition company through his Pershing Square Holdings fund.The New SPAC: A SPAC is a blank check company with no operations that is created to raise capital through an initial public offering with the sole purpose of acquiring an existing company.Ackman is entering the SPAC sphere by offering 200 million units of Pershing Square Tontine Holdings at $20 per share. Pershing Square will acquire between $1 billion and $3 billion for a total amount of capital of up to $7 billion, CNBC reported.Ackman will likely target four kinds of companies, according to CNBC contributor Kenneth Squire: * A high-quality, large-capitalization company that could be better off foregoing an IPO process, like Rocket Mortgage. * A venture-backed business with a notable scale that doesn't have as many private funding options. * A large but distressed private equity portfolio company that needs an equity...