Bill Ackman’s Spac was supposed to be the ‘good’ one. What happened?

Launched in 2020 with the intention of injecting a dose of quality into the fly-by-night market of special purpose acquisition companies (Spacs), the $4 billion Pershing Square Tontine Holdings is fast approaching its deadline to buy something. If it gets wound up instead, has it failed?

You have to feel for billionaire Bill Ackman. His special purpose acquisition company, Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH, or Tontine), which did a $4 billion IPO back in 2020, only has about six more weeks to find an acquisition target before it has to return all that cash to shareholders.

If it hasn’t signed a letter of intent with a target by July 24, then that is most likely what will happen.

If so, it will be a disappointing end to something that had promised to shake up the world of Spacs.

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