CANTOR FITZGERALD, L. P. 4
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Cantor Equity Partners (CEPS) 10% Owner Buys 300,000 Shares
What Happened
Cantor EP Holdings VI, LLC (the “Sponsor”), a reported 10% owner, acquired 300,000 Class A ordinary shares of Cantor Equity Partners VI, Inc. (CEPS) on February 6, 2026 at $10.00 per share, for a total of $3,000,000. The shares were purchased pursuant to a private placement shares purchase agreement dated February 4, 2026. This was a purchase (an institutional sponsor acquisition), not a sale.
Key Details
- Transaction date: 2026-02-06; Price: $10.00 per share; Shares: 300,000; Total value: $3,000,000.
- Method: Private placement (per purchase agreement dated Feb 4, 2026).
- Filing date: Form 4 filed Feb 9, 2026 — appears timely (within the SEC’s two-business-day reporting window).
- Shares owned after transaction: Not specified in the supplied filing; the Sponsor is the record holder of the reported shares.
- Footnotes: The Sponsor is Cantor EP Holdings VI, LLC; Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is the Sponsor’s sole member and CF Group Management, Inc. is its managing general partner. Mr. Howard Lutnick (Chairman & CEO) and those entities may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Sponsor’s shares but disclaim beneficial ownership except to the extent of any pecuniary interest.
Context
This was an institutional sponsor purchase via private placement rather than an open-market buy by an individual executive. Such sponsor allocations are common in financings or IPO/SPAC-related transactions; the filing’s footnotes clarify the ownership chain and typical disclaimers of beneficial ownership.