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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)[1], a cleaning company owned by private…
“To study property ownership in the Bay Area, the Chronicle combed through millions of unique property and business documents, consulted experts and called on additional data sets, eventually uncovering companies that…
In March 2019, the private equity firm Blackstone Group’s Core Equity Partners Fund acquired SERVPRO, a disaster restoration company with headquarters in Tennessee, for $1 billion.[i] “We look forward to working with SERVPRO and its franchisees…
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…
The Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus, and KKR are the top three offenders on climate among private equity firms, continuing to invest in polluting industries and exposing investors to significant climate-related risk, according to a new…
In the last few years, private equity firms including The Blackstone Group and Starwood Capital have become some of the largest owners of subsidized affordable housing in the United States, acquiring apartment properties with more than 138,000 units backed by…
Private Equity Stakeholder Project Executive Director Jim Baker joined with representatives from the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and the Georgia Institute of Technology at the US House Committee on Financial Services: Where Have…
In another investigative piece on private equity’s “insatiable appetite for healthcare in recent years”, Modern Healthcare reported how the DOJ has won more than $43 million in settlement proceeds from private equity defendants across at least five such cases. Modern…
