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The American Prospect reported on how private equity is entrenched in the home health and hospice industries, citing figures provided by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project that show two dozen private equity companies employing more than 233,000 workers. Additionally, “the…
The University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies has released a report exploring private equity’s impacts on the climate and marginalized communities, while using public pension fund capital. As a major private equity investor, public pension funds…
A few weeks after KKR recommitted to fracking through a portfolio company merger, it’s picking up additional drilling assets from ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips reported it is selling all of its Wyoming assets to KKR’s Contango, which includes 446 billion…
NBC conducted an investigation on how private equity firms have poured money into fossil fuel investments, such as refineries, pipelines and coal and gas-fired power plants, with serious consequences for communities and climate change. NBC, July 5, 2021: Some…
The private equity firm KKR recently acquired a majority stake in Refresco, the world’s largest independent bottling company. Refresco produces beverages such as BodyArmor Sports Drink for Coca-Cola, Gatorade for Pepsi, Arizona Iced Tea, and Tropicana juices.
While the rest of the world races to address the climate crisis, KKR is redoubling on fracking by merging its Independence Energy with Contango Oil & Gas Co to create a consolidation-focused oil and gas company with an enterprise value…
On June 1, the United States government intervened in a health care fraud suit against Curo Health Services, one of the largest hospice companies in the US. Currently owned by a consortium of Humana, TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson,…
Private equity KKR’s investment in the controversial Coastal Gaslink Pipeline was featured in an online forum organized by the University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies May 19. Trustees and representatives of dozens of institutional investors with…
The University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies hosted a forum that explored the relationship between pension funds and other institutional investors, the climate crisis, and the impacts on communities and the environment. Trustees and representatives of…
In the last six months, a few private equity buyouts have dramatically increased the number of people working for private equity-owned companies. In October 2020, Roark Capital acquired Dunkin’ Brands, which has 330,000 people working at its Dunkin’ Donuts…
Reuters reported recently on several U.S. private equity firms that have bought coal plants, despite the industry’s decline, using a strategy in markets where regulators pay to be on standby for emergency power capacity. In a March 2, 2021,…
Helping to peel off some of the layers of mystery surrounding the practices of private equity firms, Matthew Goldstein of The New York Times examined dividend recaps, “a kind of borrowing long condemned for loading up companies with debt…
