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Over the last decade at least 600,000 people working at private equity-owned retailers have lost their jobs due to bankruptcies and store closures. Over the last decade at least 600,000 people working at private equity-owned retailers have lost their…
Members of Congress have sent a letter to Leonard Green & Partners asking the firm return the $658 million in fees and dividends it and other owners collected from safety net hospital chain Prospect Medical Holdings. A copy of…
Last week, Private Equity Stakeholder Project sent letters to states’ Attorneys General and other regulators in states where Prospect Medical Holdings owns hospitals. Prospect Medical Holdings is a safety net hospital company owned by private equity firm Leonard Green &…
Private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners owns safety net hospital chain Prospect Medical Holdings. The Leonard Green-led ownership group has drawn $658 million dollars in fees and dividends from Prospect Medical Holdings even as the hospitals suffered operating…
Over the last decade at least 600,000 people working at private equity-owned retailers have lost their jobs due to bankruptcies and store closures. Just since last summer, private equity-owned retailers such as Fairway, Art Van Furniture, and…
(pdf version) Over the last several years, the private equity and private funds industry has grown dramatically and, in the process, has come to touch more and more aspects of people’s lives. Private market assets under management hit an…
Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management owns grocery retailer Albertsons-Safeway, the largest private equity-owned company in the United States and the second largest grocery retailer, employing around 270,000 workers. Albertsons-Safeway is reportedly considering an IPO amid…
In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cerberus Capital Management and other private equity owners of grocery retailer Albertsons are looking to take the company public through a $19 billion IPO. Albertsons is the largest private equity-owned employer in…
Last week, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 400 released a report, “Private Equity’s Biggest Retail Gamble: Albertsons-Safeway” that looks at Cerberus Capital Management’s ownership of Albertsons-Safeway, the largest private equity-owned…
Full report available here. Over the past decade, more than 1.3 million people have lost their jobs due to trouble or bankruptcies at retail companies owned by private equity and hedge funds, according to a new study released…
Entertainment writers and the Writers Guild of America have recently sought to end conflicts of interest by imposing a code of conduct on major talent agencies that represent writers. The largest talent agencies – Endeavor (formerly known as WME IMG)…
Last week, dozens of Sears and Kmart employees sent a letter to the hedge funds and other creditors that control Sears and are driving the retailer’s bankruptcy reorganization. Following the lead of Toys ‘R’ Us workers, who recently won…
