Career
Halit Coussin has been Chief Legal Officer/Chief Compliance Officer of Pershing Square Capital Management since February 2015. Halit Coussin is a control person of the firm and directly owns under 5% of it. Halit Coussin holds an LLM from New York University and an LLB magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University.
Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. is a New York, NY firm with $25.1B under management, 6 clients and 11 advisers in one office, as of its June 2026 filing.
Pershing Square identifies Halit Coussin as chief legal and chief compliance officer of the investment manager; before joining in 2007, she was an associate attorney at Schulte Roth & Zabel.
The IAPD individual lookup on 18 October 2026 returned no individual record. This profile uses the firm’s Form ADV officer listing.
Credentials and registrations
Individual registration and examination information for Halit Coussin is unavailable. An officer title or CRD number does not by itself establish current investment adviser representative registration, and no registration or examination counts are inferred.
Officer record
- Full name
- Halit Coussin
- CRD
- 5512877
- Record basis
- Form ADV officer listing
- Firm bio
- pershingsquareholdings.com
Disciplinary history is not reported here, in either direction. Check the SEC record.
Common questions
Where does Halit Coussin work?
Halit Coussin has been Chief Legal Officer/Chief Compliance Officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. since February 2015, and is a control person of the firm.