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On March 1, 2022, President Joe Biden gave his first State of the Union address. Included in this speech was a long section focused on private equity’s impact on patient care in nursing homes. “As Wall Street firms take over…
On January 26, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose amendments to Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain SEC-registered investment advisers to private funds. The proposed amendments are designed to enhance the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s…
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Private equity-owned companies employ millions of workers in the United States, and the number continues to grow as private equity firms are acquiring additional companies at a record pace. The largest number of workers employed by private equity-owned companies are…
The private equity industry is massive, hugely influential, and playing a role in more and more aspects of life in the US and around the world. The industry manages nearly $7.5 trillion in assets and owns companies that employ more…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project released a new report, Profit Over Safety: Private Equity’s Leveraged Bet on Packers Sanitation, detailing how The Blackstone Group’s Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), which specializes in cleaning food processing plants, has stood out…
In July 2019, private equity firm Platinum Equity reported using two placement agents, VolcomCapital SA and Magenta Capital Services Ltd., to raise capital from non-US investors for Platinum Equity Capital Partners V.[i] VolcomCapital was founded by Sebastián Piñera…
Private equity firm Platinum Equity owns Aventiv Technologies, the parent company of prison and jail phone and communications company Securus, as well as JPay and AllPaid, which provide money transfer services for incarcerated people and their families. Worth Rises’…
Resilience Force has been working for the last two years with workers employed by SERVPRO franchisees and their subcontractors, and other disaster recovery companies. SERVPRO is a Blackstone-owned disaster restoration company with a track record of high-risk practices that…
