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Continuing Incarceration: Apax Partners’ Digital Shackles

Earlier this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mark Pocan sent letters to several private equity firms profiting from incarceration and detention. Apax Partners, which owns electronic monitoring company Attenti, pushed back, insisting its investment…

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Continuing Incarceration: Apax Partners’ Digital Shackles

Earlier this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mark Pocan sent letters to several private equity firms profiting from incarceration and detention. Apax Partners, which owns electronic monitoring company Attenti, pushed back, insisting its investment…

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Endeavour Capital Performance Lags Peers

(Full report available here) Endeavour Capital is a Portland, Oregon-based private equity manager with investments focused on the Western US. While some of Endeavour Capital’s early funds were strong performers, the private equity firm has struggled to keep up…

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Blackstone Group – Lendmark Financial Services

From report “Private equity piles into payday lending and other subprime consumer lending” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) Blackstone Group, led by Stephen Schwarzman, who chairs President Trump’s Strategic and Policy…

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Warburg Pincus – Mariner Finance

From report “Private equity piles into payday lending and other subprime consumer lending” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus acquired installment lender Mariner Finance in…

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