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Vivendi Sells Stake in Universal Music Group to Bill Ackman's Pershing Square

by Ellise Shafer

Vivendi has reached a deal with Bill Ackman's Pershing Square to sell a 10% stake in Universal Music Group, a transaction that values the world's largest music company at $40 billion. In Vivendi's announcement, which came at the strange hour of 2 p.m. ET on Fathers Day, apparently to capture a time when the global […]

SOURCE: Variety at 4:40pm on June 20, 2021