Paul Singer - Forbes

This Forbes topic page compiles articles mentioning billionaire investor Paul Singer, founder, president and co-CEO of Elliott Management. The page is a collection of headlines and excerpts rather than a single news report, and the items span from 2012 through 2023. Publisher context adds that Forbes listed Singer at #238 on its 2026 Forbes 400 list and estimated his net worth at US$6.7 billion as of September 2025. Elliott was founded in 1977 with $1 million, according to the publisher's biographical material.

The most recent item, dated June 20, 2023, reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito responded through a Wall Street Journal op-ed to questions from ProPublica about a trip with Singer. The earlier coverage centers on Elliott's activist strategy. In 2014, Elliott took a $1 billion stake in EMC and pushed the data storage company to spin off its VMware unit, a campaign covered in the context of the $67 billion EMC deal. In November 2015, Singer acquired an active 5.1% stake in Alcoa, 67,064,200 shares, which he called "dramatically undervalued," according to securities filings reported by GuruFocus. In February 2020, Forbes reported that Singer sought four board seats at Twitter and wanted to see Jack Dorsey split his attention.

The page also covers Singer's sovereign debt litigation. Coverage from 2012 described NML Capital, an Elliott affiliate, rejecting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's claim that its Argentina case posed no risk to the global payments system, after Judge Thomas Griesa ordered Argentina to pay holdout bondholders $1.3 billion. Later coverage in 2014 addressed Argentina's default and a Ghanaian court's refusal to free the Fragata Libertad navy vessel. Singer has also been a political figure, with a 2015 report stating he backed Marco Rubio's Republican presidential bid. Additional items include a 2013 Ira Sohn conference speech in which he warned about U.S. debt and quantitative easing, and his participation in CNBC's Delivering Alpha conference.