Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Pershing Square Holdco, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“PS Holdco” or the “Partnership”), was formed on April 11, 2024. Pershing Square Holdco GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, serves as the general partner of PS Holdco. PS Holdco is the successor reporting entity to Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“PSCM”), formed on December 17, 2003 that commenced operations on January 2, 2004.
On May 31, 2024, as part of an internal reorganization of PSCM (the “Reorganization”), PS Holdco became the indirect owner of PSCM and its general partner, PS Management GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“PSCM GP”). Prior to the Reorganization, 99% of the limited partnership interests of PSCM (the “PSCM LP Interests”) were owned by Mr. William Ackman and other limited partners, and 1% of the PSCM LP Interests were owned by PSCM GP. At the time of the Reorganization, PSCM GP did not have any holdings other than its 1% interest in PSCM. Mr. Ackman was the managing member and sole owner of PSCM GP.
As part of the Reorganization, Mr. Ackman contributed his limited liability company interests in PSCM GP, and the limited partners of PSCM contributed the PSCM LP Interests to Pershing Square Partner Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“PSPG”). Immediately thereafter, PSPG contributed its interests in PSCM GP and the PSCM LP Interests to PS Holdco, and PS Holdco then contributed both interests to Pershing Square Intermediate Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of PS Holdco (“Intermediate Holdings”). As a result of the Reorganization, Intermediate Holdings is the sole limited partner of PSCM, and PS Holdco is the indirect owner of PSCM and PSCM GP.
On May 31, 2024, a consortium of strategic investors purchased a 10% minority equity interest in PS Holdco for a purchase price of $1.05 billion. Following the sale, PSPG owns 90% of the issued and outstanding limited partnership interests of PS Holdco.
On the same date, PS CompCo, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CompCo” which was formerly named PS VariableCo, LLC), PSCM and PS Holdco entered into the Variable Compensation Agreement (“VCA”). The terms of the VCA specify the allocation of any performance fees earned by PSCM between PS Holdco and CompCo. Refer to Note 4 “Variable Compensation Agreement” for more details on the VCA.
Investment Manager and Managed Funds
PSCM is the investment manager to Pershing Square, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“PSLP”), Pershing Square International, Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“PSINTL” and together with PSLP, the “Private Funds”), and Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd., a publicly traded Guernsey limited liability company (“PSH”, and collectively with the Private Funds, the “Core Funds”). The Core Funds generally implement substantially similar investment objectives, policies and strategies.
Prior to December 31, 2024, PSCM was also the investment adviser to PS VII, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“PSVII LP”), PS VII International, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“PSVII Intl”), PS VII Master, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“PSVII Master”), PS VII A International, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“PSVIIA”), and PS VII Employee Fund, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“PSVII Employee Fund” and together with PSVII LP, PSVII Intl, PSVII Master, and PSVIIA, the “PSVII Funds” and collectively with the Core Funds, the “Pershing Square Funds”). The PSVII Funds operated collectively as a co-investment vehicle that primarily invested in securities of (or otherwise sought to be exposed to the value of securities issued by) Universal Music Group, N.V. (“UMG”). PSVII GP, LLC, the general partner of PSVII Master, PSVII LP, PSVII Intl and PSVIIA (“PSVII GP”), determined to cease the operations of PSVII Master and PSVIIA and distribute its assets to limited partners as of December 31, 2024. All subsequent references to the PSVII Funds throughout these financial statements are applicable only up to their cessation date of December 31, 2024.