Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square expects to raise $1.4 billion from the sale of a 2.7% stake in Universal Music Group, according to a report in Bloomberg. Ackman announced the sale on social media, but the numbers are from a Bloomberg source citing knowledge of the deal,

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman confirmed on Thursday his firm had sold some of its shares in Universal Music Group (UMG). "We decided to sell a portion of our UMG position today," he wrote on X. "UMG was our largest position going into the day at more than around 27% of our capital.

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square (OTCPK:PSHZF) has announced the launch of a secondary offering of 50M ordinary shares in Universal Music Group N.V. (OTCPK:UMGNF), which translates to about 2.7% of UMG’s issued share capital,