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Private Equity’s Biggest Retail Gamble: Albertsons-Safeway
Last week, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 400 released a report, “Private Equity’s Biggest Retail Gamble: Albertsons-Safeway” that looks at Cerberus Capital Management’s ownership of Albertsons-Safeway, the largest private equity-owned…
LA Times series on Platinum Equity owner Tom Gores highlights headline risk of Securus prison phone investment
Private equity firm Platinum Equity acquired Securus, one of the largest phone and communications companies for jails and prisons, in November 2017. Securus has drawn criticism for charging exorbitantly high call rates and fees to incarcerated people and their support…
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…
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…
Blackstone investments driving Amazon deforestation and other climate concerns
In August, an article in The Intercept highlighted investments by private equity firm The Blackstone Group in a Brazilian infrastructure company that has spurred deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In recent weeks, global attention has focused on the…
KKR and Blackstone-owned Firms Have Spent Millions to Oppose a Ban on Surprise Medical Billing
A new report by the New York Times last week revealed that medical staffing firms owned by private equity managers KKR and Blackstone have poured millions into opposing legislation that would ban surprise medical billing.[i] Through a shadowy…
Platinum Equity-owned Transworld Systems fined $2.5 million for illegal student debt collection lawsuits, draws thousands of consumer complaints
Private equity firm Platinum Equity has recently drawn criticism for its investment in Securus, one of the largest providers of phone, email, money transfer, and electronic monitoring services to jails, prisons and immigration detention centers in the U.S. While…
Pirate Equity: How Wall Street Firms are Pillaging American Retail
Full report available here. Over the past decade, more than 1.3 million people have lost their jobs due to trouble or bankruptcies at retail companies owned by private equity and hedge funds, according to a new study released…
Report: HIG Capital’s and Wellpath’s Correctional Healthcare Investment Risks
Our new report looks at the risks of private equity firm H.I.G. Capital’s investment in prison and detention center healthcare provider Wellpath. Key Points: Over the past several years, private equity firm HIG Capital has built up one of…
