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Last week Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha approved the sale of Prospect Medical Holdings, a safety net hospital chain majority-owned by private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, after a year-long investigation into the company’s finances. As a condition…
“The Healthcare Divide,” a new documentary by FRONTLINE and NPR, shines a light on the disparities faced by patients in safety net hospitals, highlighting hospital chain Prospect Medical Holdings and its private equity owner Leonard Green & Partners.
NPR shared the story of Katrina Chism, a single mother in Atlanta whose landlord is Front Yard Residential, owned by private equity firms Pretium Partners and Ares Management. According to Chism, her landlord refused to accept federal rental assistance money…
The main US private equity lobby group, the American Investment Council (AIC), released a report in 2019 touting private equity’s contributions to the US economy by employing millions of workers.[1] Since private equity firms buy out companies with…
As we commemorate the women and men who died while serving in the U.S. military, we look at those veterans struggling with evictions and ultimately homelessness. The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has tracked eviction filings by private equity firms and…
The National Housing Law Project, The National Low Income Housing Coalition, and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project delivered a letter earlier this month to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark Calabria, urging him to take action against landlords…
The energy funds of private equity firm The Carlyle Group have underperformed the Pitchbook private equity benchmark, and its NGP funds all posted negative returns as of 4Q2020. Carlyle’s extensive exposure to oil and gas assets resulted in…
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…
Modern Healthcare investigated how the complex ownership structures of nursing homes — an already fragmented section of the healthcare industry — make it hard for policymakers and families to know which facilities are owned by private equity investors or how…
CBS News featured research by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project which showed that large and private-equity backed landlords have been filing tens of thousands of evictions since the CDC’s eviction moratorium order was passed. Private equity firms and other…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has published a report on Roark Capital, which has collected billions from investors in recent years. Will those investors get it back? Private equity firm Roark Capital, based in Atlanta, recently launched fundraising for…
As the private equity industry comes under increasing scrutiny for health care fraud, private equity firm H.I.G. Capital stands out as a repeat offender. H.I.G. has owned multiple health care companies that have paid out multimillion dollar settlements for…
