
Truthout : Labor Organizers Launch a New Model for the Fight Against Private Equity
PESP’s and United for Respect’s May Day action and Labor Rights platform were featured in an investigative piece by Truthout…
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PESP’s and United for Respect’s May Day action and Labor Rights platform were featured in an investigative piece by Truthout…
Private equity and real estate giant the Blackstone Group launched fundraising a year ago for Blackstone Capital Partners IX, its next flagship buyout fund, seeking to raise as much as $30 billion.[1] Yet Blackstone’s most recent quarterly…
No Surprises Here Private equity-backed companies are among the top initiating parties in the No Surprises Act Independent Dispute Resolution process In December 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a report containing initial data (covering…
Earlier this month, a US District Court judge in Nebraska granted an injunction sought by the US Department of Labor to halt alleged “oppressive child labor” by Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), a cleaning company owned by private equity firm…
New York Focus November 30, 2022: The Private Equity ‘Black Box’ Pours…
A new report by Moody’s Investors Service has found that healthcare companies in North America are increasingly facing credit rating downgrades and potential defaults, including 34 companies rated B3 negative or lower.[1] PESP has found that 30 of…
Earlier this month, a US District Court judge in Nebraska granted an injunction sought by the US Department of Labor to halt alleged “oppressive child labor” by Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI)[1], a cleaning company owned by private…
“To study property ownership in the Bay Area, the Chronicle combed through millions of unique property and business documents, consulted experts and called on additional data sets, eventually uncovering companies that…
In March 2019, the private equity firm Blackstone Group’s Core Equity Partners Fund acquired SERVPRO, a disaster restoration company with headquarters in Tennessee, for $1 billion.[i] “We look forward to working with SERVPRO and its franchisees…
PESP and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) released the Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard which provides first-of-its-kind research and analysis of eight private equity firms with some of the largest energy…
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released their NEW scorecard that sheds light on eight of the largest private equity firms in the world, their collective holdings of billions of dollars…
The Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus, and KKR are the top three offenders on climate among private equity firms, continuing to invest in polluting industries and exposing investors to significant climate-related risk, according to a new…