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A recent investigation by Vice looks at how “large corporate landlords—including private equity, real estate investment trusts and hedge funds” have begun to “put more resources into multifamily and single family homes” since the 2008 real estate crash and the…
Since December 2022, Atlanta-area officials have charged 42 people with domestic terrorism for protesting the construction of Cop City, a police training facility that would sit on 85 acres…
Private equity giant Blackstone continues to face bad press due to a Department of Labor investigation that revealed widespread child labor at Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI), which the firm acquired in 2018. While Blackstone and PSSI frame child labor as…
A story by Buffalo Business First looked at how private equity funders have become increasingly involved in the healthcare industry, resulting in numerous deals nationwide. Physician practices of various kinds have received investments, leading to a transfer of ownership…
There is a disturbing pattern in Blackstone-owned rental properties in Florida. In at least 33 cases over the last year at properties owned by Blackstone’s single family rental subsidiary Home Partners of America, Blackstone filed to evict the tenant and…
In light of the growing investor interest in healthcare and the risks associated with private equity ownership of healthcare companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is tracking private equity-backed healthcare acquisitions. Below is a list of private equity healthcare…
Marco Fernandez, M.D., president of Midwest Anesthesia Partners, experienced a surprising loss of hospital contracts to private equity-owned anesthesiology groups, leading him to establish the Association for Independent Medicine (AIM) to resist private equity takeovers. Managed Healthcare Executive May 14,…
According to an article by Harold Brubaker in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Crozer Health’s landlord, Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPT), plans to transform its lease agreement for Crozer’s hospital buildings into a mortgage. Philadelphia Inquirer May 2, 2023: Crozer’s…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project released a first-of-its-kind data project to track the insurgence of private equity ownership of our nation’s hospitals. The new PESP Private Equity Hospital Tracker provides a current and refreshed list of all private equity-owned hospitals…
A new investigation released released by the Private Equity Climate Risks consortium revealed that The Carlyle Group, a private equity titan with $373 billion in assets under management, has been quietly scooping up fossil fuel assets over the past decade,…
Private equity investors in healthcare finally face the music as their highly leveraged companies face downgrades and defaults on a large-scale Private equity’s use of debt to fund its healthcare investments is becoming a major liability for its portfolio companies…
Next week, private equity and real estate giant The Blackstone Group will hold its Global Real Estate LP Conference and Global Private Equity LP Conference at the luxurious The Boca Raton resort in Boca Raton, Florida. The resort…
