Ackman Ready for ‘Unicorn Mating Dance’ With $4 Billion SPAC
- Pershing Square-backed blank-check company is largest ever
- Ackman’s second SPAC to seek business it can own for a decade
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is officially on the lookout for a mega-merger after his new blank-check company raised $4 billion in an initial public offering and rose in its trading debut.
“We’re in a unicorn mating dance and we want to marry a very attractive unicorn on the other side that meets our characteristics,” he said in a Bloomberg TV interview Wednesday. “And we’ve designed ourselves to be a very attractive partner.”