Howard Lutnick’s son takes CEO role at Cantor Fitzgerald SPAC


Donald Trump’s commerce secretary nominee, Howard Lutnick. — Bloomberg

NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s commerce secretary nominee, Howard Lutnick, is taking a key step back from running his financial group, handing off leadership of one of his blank-cheque companies to his 26-year-old son.

Brandon Lutnick, a trader at his father’s Cantor Fitzgerald LP, has been listed as chief executive at its most recently created special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Cantor Equity Partners I Inc, according to a filing Wednesday.

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