Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman's hedge fund, owns a 7.8% stake in the discount retailer.
Also participating in the deal are existing investors Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures.
Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owned 17.8% of J.
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When Pershing Square Capital disclosed a 16.5% stake in J.
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He's hardly alone in seeing unrealized value in CCA. Activist investor William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is its largest shareholder with 9.4%.
His name was Bill Ackman, the hedge fund impresario who had, that very week, launched Pershing Square Capital Management 6, 500 miles away in Manhattan.
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He will present his best investment idea for this year, as will fellow short-seller James Chanos of Kynikos Associates and activist William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, among others.
Private equity shop Warburg Pincus and William Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management have each earned a place among Wall Street's upper reaches by making smart investments.
He called members of the committee of directors making the selections, as well as big investors including William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, people familiar with the matter said.
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Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital is J.
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Along with the company's board of directors, he's rejected a plan pushed by private equity firm Pershing Square Capital to sell off some company-owned restaurants and distribute the proceeds to stockholders through dividends and share buybacks.
It was reported last year that U.S. venture capital firm Union Square Ventures and a handful of American tech companies were to only accept links to jobseekers' "web presence" -- from blogs to Twitter accounts -- instead of traditional resumes.
"I'm not a fan of sticking real-estate companies in a trust so you don't have to pay corporate tax, " said activist hedge fund investor William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital during a recent real-estate conference sponsored by New York University.
It was a clear shot at Pershing Square Capital, the New York hedge fund run by William Ackman, who released a letter to regulators Wednesday, along with a lode of data, to support his claim the bond insurers are headed for a swift demise.
Ambac shares have lost 90% of their value since January 2007 and William Ackman, a short-seller who runs the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has railed against them (to his own benefit), saying the bond insurers could be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposures to the structured finance market.
The relatively warmer temperatures brought heavy snow falls in the Russian capital, blanketing Red Square and the Kremlin.
Its other key equity holders remain Claritas Capital, Vformation and Square 1 Bank, as previously reported by Mergermarket.
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Expropriation brought into its hands about one-third of the urban space in the national-capital region (a rough square around Ottawa-Hull).
Thousands of Mr Mahama's supporters packed Independence Square in the capital, Accra, for the ceremony, reports the BBC's Sammy Darko from the scene.
"Times Square was the capital of exhibitionism, " Sharon Zukin, a professor at Brooklyn College and author of "Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, " a book chronicling the city's gentrification in recent decades.
Existing investors Greylock, Benchmark, Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital also participated in the new round.
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But in the capital La Paz's main square on independence day, bands played the national anthem, veterans marched in their old uniforms and supporters cheered for the president.
The deal is a big win for Mr. Karp, who remains a large shareholder, and the site's early venture investors, which include Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital.
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