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Private equity’s expansion into the clinical trial industry is accelerating and may reshape how medical studies are conducted and overseen. The growing consolidation of research sites and ethics review boards raises concerns about trial safety, the long-term…
The private equity industry is massive, hugely influential, and playing a role in more and more aspects of life around the world, overseeing 29,000 portfolio companies and over 13 million US workers. Private equity and private funds are complex and…
In 2025, state legislatures across the country advanced a wave of proposals to rein in the risks of private equity in healthcare. Spurred by hospital closures, bankruptcies, and mounting evidence of financial extraction by private investors, lawmakers in…
States move to rein in private equity’s growing control of healthcare, new report finds Private Equity Stakeholder Project report tracks 2025 legislative wave targeting financial risks and ownership opacity in healthcare State lawmakers across the country advanced an unprecedented wave…
PESP Shares Concerns About Private Equity’s Role in Rising Healthcare Costs at Washington’s Health Care Cost Transparency Board On October 23, the Washington Health Care Cost Transparency Board (HCCTB) convened to examine the financial and structural pressures…
Signs of turmoil within Carlyle as the firm fails its second high-profile overseas fossil fuel acquisition attempt American private equity firm The Carlyle Group has been successfully expanding its fossil fuel footprint across the United States, recently…
There has been a recent settlement related to the public movement against RealPage, the property-management software purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2021. RealPage has been accused of assisting landlords in artificially inflating rents through…
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD), in the San Francisco Bay Area, has more than doubled its spending on outside vendors and contractors…
A new research brief from private equity watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Action (PESA) examines how outsourcing at one Bay Area school district has funneled millions of dollars in taxpayer money to private equity-owned special education…
The Miami Workers Center (MWC) is a community-based organization which organizes towards dignity, power, and self-determination with workers, tenants, women, and families across Miami. Since 1999, MWC has run grassroots campaigns to strengthen and expand rights and resources…
Last week, Bloomberg reported that Walgreens had cut pay for its retail employees following the drugstore’s $18.8 billion buyout by private equity firm Sycamore Partners. As Walgreens’ new owners look to cut costs, hourly workers…
Media spotlight: PESP’s expertise anchors reporting on Minnesota utility buyout Minnesota regulators have approved BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners’ $6 billion takeover of ALLETE, the parent company of Minnesota Power. The deal hands control of one of the state’s…
