Lawrence D Ackman

Larry Ackman, who led finance brokerage Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group for two decades, doing deals for the likes of Sol Goldman and Seymour Durst, died tin May 2022. He was in his 80s. Ackman, the son of founding partner Herman Ackman, joined the real estate firm in the 1960s. He became president of the company in 1968 and CEO in 1977. After Simon Ziff became president of the firm in 1995 and took over day-to-day operations, Ackman assumed the role of chairman. He later moved on to work on real estate deals with his son, hedge-fund mogul Bill Ackman, at Bill’s firm Pershing Square Capital. Ackman was on the board of directors at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute for more than two decades and the Realty Foundation of New York.