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In December, educators and support staff in a Bay Area school district went on strike for the first time in district history, citing expenditures to outside contractors as one of the reasons for…
The prime minister’s climate record doesn’t match his rhetoric. Canada deserves straight answers. The following op-ed by PESP senior research coordinator Amanda Mendoza published in January in Canada’s National Observer: In the frantic hours before Parliament voted…
PESP executive director Jim Baker warns of risks facing Walgreens after private equity takeover on Fox 32 Chicago The Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s Executive Director Jim Baker was featured on Fox 32 Chicago…
After the decision to allow the BlackRock acquisition of Minnesota Power (MP) to commence by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MN PUC), Minnesotans were left to wonder how…
The future of Walgreens, an iconic Chicago drugstore, looks grim The pharmacy and retail store now counts itself as one of thousands of portfolio companies owned by private equity, an industry renowned for its profits-first, people-last approach to business.
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) welcomes a letter of deficiencyissued December 23, 2025 by staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding Blackstone’s proposed acquisition of TXNM Energy and its subsidiaries, Public Service Company…
TXNM, parent company to two electric utilities, PNM and TNMP, announced plans to be acquired by Blackstone’s Infrastructure platform in May of 2025 in a $11.5 billion take-private deal. This proposed acquisition would…
Several legal cases involving the property management software RealPage (which is owned by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo) were settled toward the end of 2025. Some of those settlements involved the property…
Today, President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he would move to ban large institutional investors from buying single family homes in the future. In recent years, institutional investors such as private equity…
In light of continued 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 buyouts,…
Several large public pensions cut back allocations to private equity in 2025 in the face of the industry’s poor performance and unrelenting headwinds. Among the public asset owners that…
Climate disasters are accelerating at an exponential rate, with the first half of 2025 rated as the costliest ever on record at $101 billion, The Guardian reported. More and more people are becoming all too familiar with what a…
