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In light of the growing investor interest in health care and the risks associated with private equity ownership of health care companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project will be tracking private equity-backed health care acquisitions. Below is a list…
Cheesecake Factory workers from California and Arizona, along with allies in Illinois, attended the Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI) meeting on September 29, 2021[1] to urge Board members not to re-invest in Roark Capital, part owner of the…
Alameda County Employees’ Retirement Association (ACERA), a California pension fund, was considering a $70 million investment in Ares Senior Direct Lending Fund II as part of ACERA’s Private Credit Portfolio at its September 8th Investment Committee meeting.[1] In January…
New Private Markets contacted the 10 private equity firms featured in the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s report: Private Equity Propels the Climate Crisis. The report found that these private equity firms, since 2010, have made energy investments dominated by…
In light of the growing investor interest in health care and the risks associated with private equity ownership of health care companies, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project will be tracking private equity-backed health care acquisitions. Below is a list…
The Wet’suwet’en First Nation’s resistance against the KKR backed Coastal GasLink Pipeline (CGL) in Canada, has been escalating at the construction site and through outreach to financial firms invested in the project. At least 29 people had been…
UK-based private equity firm BC Partners struggled to raise its last buyout fund, BC European Capital X, in 2017. Now, BC Partners is behind in fundraising for its newest buyout fund, BC Partners XI and has asked investors for more…
In January, Congress appropriated over $46 billion in direct financial assistance to support renters. Nevertheless, corporate landlords continued with eviction filings, filing more than 79,000 eviction actions since the start of the year. $30 billion of the funds appropriated were…
Selin Bucak reported on The Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s analysis of the portfolios of 10 private equity firms over the past decade (Private Equity Propels the Climate Crisis: The risks of a shadowy industry’s massive exposure to oil, gas…
Workers from the Refresco bottling plant in Wharton, NJ, have testified to four public pension boards about the funds’ investments in a union-busting company owned by private equity firm PAI Partners. In June of this year, a majority of the…
In a recent investigation NBC News spotlighted Roark Capital, owner of Inspire Brands — the parent company of fast-food chains such as Arby’s, Dunkin’, Baskin-Robbins, Sonic, Cinnabon and Seattle’s Best Coffee. NBC News estimated that more than 700,000 people work…
Three years after Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a civil fraud case alleging that HIG disregarded an employee’s complaint that behavioral healthcare provider Community Intervention Services (CIS) was using unsupervised, unlicensed therapists to care for patients, private equity firm…
