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Stat reported how it is essential to closely monitor potential fraud by private equity firms that are “further encroach[ing] upon the health care industry” so that “patients’ best interests are protected and prioritized.” Stat, March 24, 2022: Private equity,…
McKnights Home Care and Common Dreams reported on the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s latest report, “Private Equity at Home: Wall Street’s Incursion into the Home Healthcare and Hospice Industries.” The report reveals how for-profit home health and hospice agencies…
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 will be tracking private equity-backed healthcare acquisitions. Below is a list of private equity…
The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) published an expose of private equity-owned Sterigenics: “Over the last three years, hundreds of cancer patients in Georgia and Illinois have sued the company, claiming that ethylene oxide emissions from its plants caused their…
After recent critical media coverage of private equity firms’ behavior in the housing market as revealed by the Pandora Papers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent letters to Progress Residential, Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent, companies and…
Bloomberg looked at how private equity money pouring into single family home purchases is turning first-time homebuyers into renters. Bloomberg Businessweek, February 18, 2022: Wall Street Is Buying Starter Homes to Quietly Become America’s Landlord It…
After reporting extensively on private equity’s impact, David Dayen of the American Prospect concluded from PESP’s latest report on behavioral health services for vulnerable youth: “Private equity’s goal isn’t to provide a safe and comfortable environment for those in its…
IPE reported on the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America’s (UE) and PESP’s letter to UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) chief executive officer David Atkin, by describing how PAI Partners’ portfolio company Refresco is engaged in union-busting…
While the 2009 recession was a financial sinkhole for millions of Americans with more than 3.7 million households being foreclosed upon, ProPublica reported on how private equity-backed companies scooped up tens of thousands of single-family homes lost to foreclosure at…
The Economist reported that some of the $44bn of mostly fossil-fuel assets that the oil and gas industry has shed since the start of 2018 are not being closed down, but bought up by private equity firms funded by university…
A new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and LittleSis examines a “dirty dozen” of private equity executives whose fossil fuel investments drive climate crisis and environmental injustice. As The Guardian exclusively reported (see ‘Biggest oil barons’: the…
The Toronto Star traced the evolution of Pretium Partners, a private equity fund which is now a “real estate behemoth” devised by former Goldman Sachs executive Don Mullen who made a fortune predicting the U.S. housing collapse in 2008. Toronto…
