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With Envision Healthcare at risk for bankruptcy, limited partners invested with KKR should be asking questions In 2018, KKR’s Americas Fund XII acquired Envision Healthcare[1] for $9.9 billion via a leveraged buyout[2] that used about $7…
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…
New PESP report explores how Envision Healthcare has transformed from a profitable company to one at high risk for bankruptcy while under KKR’s ownership “Envision Healthcare: A Private Equity Case Study” In light of up Envision Healthcare’s (owned by…
Jose Rivera, the Chief Boiler Operator at Refresco’s Wharton, NJ, plant and a member of his union’s contract negotiating committee, and Cesar Moreira, also a Refresco worker in the blend room and a member of his bargaining committee, joined with…
Frontline communities are leading the way in the fight against the climate crisis November is observed as Native American Heritage Month, and as our previous research supports, indigenous communities are some of the first to experience the negative…
A delegation of workers from the Refresco bottling plant in New Jersey delivered petitions last week to the corporate headquarters of KKR, the private-equity firm that owns a majority stake in their company. Workers traveled to…
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…
New Scorecard Shows Private Equity’s Race to the Bottom on Climate Carlyle ranks last, earns an ‘F’ The Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus, and KKR are the top three offenders on climate among private equity firms,…
The private equity firm KKR recently acquired a majority stake in Refresco, the world’s largest independent bottling company. Refresco produces beverages such as BodyArmor Sports Drink for Coca-Cola, Gatorade for Pepsi, Arizona Iced Tea, and Tropicana…
Following a Buzzfeed investigation of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities in KKR’s BrightSpring Health Services, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Bernie Sanders, and Patty Murray sent a five-page letter asking KKR to disclose any facilities that…
Private equity firm KKR recently acquired a majority stake in Refresco, the world’s largest independent bottling company. Refresco produces beverages such as BodyArmor Sports Drink for Coca-Cola, Gatorade for Pepsi, Arizona Iced Tea, and Tropicana juices. This spring, workers…
