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Two dozen climate justice organizations are calling upon private equity firms to develop a plan with clear benchmarks to shift to pollution-free energy portfolios; plan for a just transition for workers and communities impacted by current fossil fuel holdings; and…
In its latest story on the impact of private equity on workers, Bloomberg describes how previously family-run furniture chain Art Van was sold in 2017 to private equity firm T.H. Lee to take over the retail operations. The business…
“Do you remember the old eighties game Mouse Trap?” The New Yorker follows the harrowing journey of one mobile-home resident’s fight against the inequities and sorrow caused by investment firms’ increasing ownership of manufactured home communities. New Yorker,…
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,…
Last week, the Blackstone Group made headlines for extracting hundreds of millions of dollars from a health care company accused of fraud and then cashing out further by taking it through an IPO. Blackstone is a repeat offender when…
The Washington Post on Monday detailed how private equity Blackstone’s ability to extract so much money out of Apria Healthcare is an example of how the profits flowing to private equity owners can be disconnected from the realities of…
PESP Executive Director Jim Baker was a guest speaker at UNI Global Union’s annual G4S Global Alliance forum, highlighting the amount of debt the British multinational will have if it is over by private equity firm Warburg Pincus and…
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…
Outsized Impact on Marginalized Communities Private equity firms and other corporate landlords have filed to evict more than 16,000 people in the first two months of 2021 even with a nationwide eviction moratorium ordered by the Centers for Disease Control…
Using very moving, sometimes chilling examples of the consequences faced by ordinary families who live in single family rental housing owned by private equity and big corporate firms, The Toronto Star presents arguments on how that industry “is structurally…
Private equity and debt firm Oaktree Capital owns thousands of apartments around the US. Despite the CDC eviction moratorium, affiliates of Oaktree Capital have continued to file and advance residential eviction cases. Oaktree Capital affiliates have filed at least 270…
