| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 |
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| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 |
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| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10% Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 |
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| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 |
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| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 |
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| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
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| 2019-01-01 | NBER Study: Private Equity-Owned Nursing Homes Have 10% Higher Death Rates Due to Cost-Cutting Private equity firms · Nursing home residents · Healthcare workers | | confirmed |
| 2018-03-15 | iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy with $20 Billion Debt - Conservative Radio Empire Collapses Under Leveraged Buyout Burden iHeartMedia · Clear Channel Communications · Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · +2 |
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| 2018-03-15 | Toys 'R' Us Liquidation: PE Firms Extract $470 Million, 33,000 Workers Get Nothing Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · 33,000 Toys R Us workers |
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| 2017-12-18 | Great Northern Paper Bankruptcy Leaves 1,000 Maine Workers with Pennies on Dollar of Promised Pensions Brookfield Asset Management · Cate Street Capital · Great Northern Paper Company |
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| 2016-09-01 | Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy |
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| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats Dave Camp · House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group · Cerberus Capital Management · +1 |
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| 2014-01-01 | Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million Francisco Partners · NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie |
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| 2013-06-01 | Former CIA Director David Petraeus Becomes Chairman of KKR Global Institute, Converting Intelligence Access Into Private Equity Value David Petraeus · KKR · Central Intelligence Agency |
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| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs Hospital corporations · Private equity firms |
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| 2011-01-03 | Evan Bayh Joins Apollo Global Management and Five Corporate Boards After Senate Evan Bayh · Apollo Global Management · McGuireWoods · Marathon Petroleum · +1 |
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| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +2 |
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| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · Clear Channel Communications · iHeartMedia · +2 |
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| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation Aspen Dental · Ares Management · Leonard Green & Partners · American Securities |
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| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · Toys R Us |
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| 2005-03-14 | Tom Daschle Joins Private Equity Firm and Lobbying After Senate Majority Leadership Tom Daschle · InterMedia Advisors · Alston & Bird · Leo Hindery |
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| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital · Apollo · +1 |
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| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model KKR · Henry Kravis · Ross Johnson · RJR Nabisco |
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