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A new article from Hawai’i Business Magazine covers the effect of Blackstone and other firms in Hawai’i’s West Oahu rental market, relaying tenants’ experiences with rising rents and added fees. Hawai’i Business Magazine:…
PE firms bought at least $25 billion in fossil fuel assets from public markets, KKR grabs biggest deals In 2021 and 2022 private equity firms have acquired at least $25 billion of oil and gas assets from the public markets.
CBS News, Dec 6, 2022: “What they’ve done is extremely evil”: Pennsylvania hospital shutdown spurs questions about private equity in health care CBS News recently investigated the…
The Carlyle Group enters 2023 facing challenges as its efforts to raise new funds and search for a Chief Executive Officer both drag on. The Financial Times reported in…
No Surprises Here Private equity-backed companies are among the top initiating parties in the No Surprises Act Independent Dispute Resolution process In December 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a report containing initial data (covering…
PESP response to NY nurse strike Private equity and the need for better pay and safer staffing in the nursing field 7,000 nurses from two NYC hospitals went on strike Monday, calling for…
In October 2022, grocery giant Kroger announced plans to buy competitor Albertsons for $24.6 billion. Albertsons announced an additional $4 billion dividend payout to investors, which would primarily go to a group of private equity and…
Since September 2022, Atlanta-based journalism outlet 11Alive News has been publishing a series of televised news stories about ongoing issues Progress Residential. Owned by private equity group Pretium…
People’s Action’s Homes Guarantee campaign has drafted an executive order for President Biden, with the hopes of addressing the nation’s housing crisis. The executive order draft was signed by over 250 organizations including the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
The Washington Post found that apartments sold to private investors and real estate trusts rose from 44 percent in 2011 to 70 percent in early 2022, with few benefiting more than Starwood Capital Group. Over the past seven years,…
Earlier this month, a US District Court judge in Nebraska granted an injunction sought by the US Department of Labor to halt alleged “oppressive child labor” by Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), a cleaning company owned by private equity firm…
New York Focus November 30, 2022: The Private Equity ‘Black Box’ Pours…
