Articles for Private Equity Firms

M&A Momentum and Trump Trades: Dealmakers’ Predictions for 2025
3 weeks, 2 days ago

M&A Momentum and Trump Trades: Dealmakers’ Predictions for 2025

Live Mint  

Mergers and acquisition activity rebounded in 2024, as access to cheaper financing released a pent-up demand to do deals after two down years. Many private equity firms have tried to softly test the market in 2024 to see if there was appetite for their portfolio assets, but many sales processes haven’t properly launched.” Anne Hiebler, global head of M&A, Credit …

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One of Trump’s Treasury contenders hails from the most cutthroat private equity firm on Wall Street
1 month, 2 weeks ago

One of Trump’s Treasury contenders hails from the most cutthroat private equity firm on Wall Street

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. As Treasury secretary, Rowan would directly oversee the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which is nominally responsible for policing the “nonbank” financial system, including the private equity industry in which he is currently a major player. “You don’t even know what private equity owns —everything is shielded by various types …

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Coming M&A Wave Will Be a Boon For Debt Bankers: Credit Weekly
2 months ago

Coming M&A Wave Will Be a Boon For Debt Bankers: Credit Weekly

Live Mint  

-- Mergers and acquisitions bankers are hopeful that Donald Trump’s return to the White House will help bring even more new deals than previously anticipated. In addition, Trump’s business-friendly stance, such as likely lowering corporate taxes, could add to tailwinds already supporting the return of private equity leveraged buyouts. “You’ve got syndicated and direct markets that are desperate for deals,” …

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Dentists are pulling "healthy" and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn
2 months ago

Dentists are pulling "healthy" and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn

Salon  

Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. “Why would I extract your tooth because you need a root canal?” Jaime Lozada, director of an elite dental implant residency program at Loma Linda University, said he’d not only witnessed an increase in dentists extracting “perfectly healthy teeth” but also treated a rash of patients with …

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California bill would require state review of private equity deals in healthcare
5 months ago

California bill would require state review of private equity deals in healthcare

LA Times  

Rob Bonta has A bill pending in California’s Legislature to ratchet up oversight of private equity investments in healthcare is receiving enthusiastic backing from consumer advocates and labor unions but drawing heavy fire from hospitals concerned about losing a potential funding source. Opponents of the bill, led by the state’s hospital association, the California Chamber of Commerce and a national …

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How PE firms are transitioning from investors to managing companies
10 months, 4 weeks ago

How PE firms are transitioning from investors to managing companies

The Hindu  

Janaki Krishnan Quick question. Keen corporate watchers would have spotted it – these are all Indian companies in which financial sponsors such as private equity firms have or had a controlling stake, and took on the mantle of promoter in many cases and are running the companies. The trend of PE firms and financial investors acquiring management control, controlling stake …

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Opinion: Wall Street predators destroyed Toys ‘R’ Us. Now they’re coming for Simon & Schuster
1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Wall Street predators destroyed Toys ‘R’ Us. Now they’re coming for Simon & Schuster

LA Times  

When new owners drove Toys ‘R’ Us into bankruptcy for a quick profit, they cost 33,000 workers their jobs. For a glimpse of their future — and tips on how to fight back — Simon & Schuster authors and employees might want to chat with the former workers of Toys ‘R’ Us. The new owners eliminated positions and offloaded responsibilities …

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How private equity firms are widening the income gap in the U.S.
1 year, 8 months ago

How private equity firms are widening the income gap in the U.S.

NPR  

How private equity firms are widening the income gap in the U.S. Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson explains how private equity firms buy out companies, then lay off employees and cut costs in order to expand profits. The plunderers she's referring to are private equity firms, PEFs, which typically buy companies, then lay off employees and cut costs, services, benefits in …

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Will Chuchawat, Amy Longo, Neil Malik and Chong Park Give Insights into the ESG Landscape
2 years, 1 month ago

Will Chuchawat, Amy Longo, Neil Malik and Chong Park Give Insights into the ESG Landscape

LA Times  

The ESG Roundtable panel is produced by the L.A. Times B2B Publishing team in conjunction with K1 Investment Management; Proscauer; and Ropes & Gray LLP. With investors and consumers increasingly choosing to invest in and patronize businesses and industries that are environmentally and socially conscious, private equity firms are recognizing that investing in ESG initiatives will be important to long-term …

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Emissions declarations by equity firm Carlyle under question
2 years, 3 months ago

Emissions declarations by equity firm Carlyle under question

Associated Press  

LONDON — At the start of 2022, the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, published a report on its financial risk from greenhouse gas emissions. “Carlyle’s future investments in carbon-based energy are expected to be made primarily through NGP in the United States and Carlyle International Energy Partners outside the United States,” Carlyle said in its …

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The NBA has embraced private equity. With team values skyrocketing, is outside money inevitable for every franchise?
2 years, 10 months ago

The NBA has embraced private equity. With team values skyrocketing, is outside money inevitable for every franchise?

New York Times  

In early 2020, the NBA made a rule change that went mostly unnoticed but had significant implications. The funds that have been raised are saying ‘OK, we’re going to hold this for the next 20 years or 30 years,’ and you’ve got long-term investors who believe the value is going to go up.” The influx of private equity into the …

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Private equity is targeting sports. Now fans and players are pushing back
3 years, 8 months ago

Private equity is targeting sports. Now fans and players are pushing back

CNN  

London CNN Business — In New Zealand, rugby isn’t just a sport. It’s been just manic.” Adam Sommerfeld, Certus Capital Managing Partner “It’s been just manic,” Sommerfeld said, noting that in the wake of the pandemic, private equity firms are looking at “very” competitive prices. In a report on the sports industry published by PwC, the consulting firm noted that …

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Not even Lille’s financial mess will slow private investment in Premier League
4 years ago

Not even Lille’s financial mess will slow private investment in Premier League

New York Times  

When Portsmouth went into administration in 2010, Premier League boss Richard Scudamore memorably described it as “rank bad management”. There will be many thinking something similar about French side Lille, where majority shareholder Gerard Lopez has been forced to sell up by the club’s main creditors, the American private equity firm Elliott Management Corporation and the multinational bank JP Morgan …

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Wall Street wants to be sure Biden can keep Warren’s army at bay
4 years, 2 months ago

Wall Street wants to be sure Biden can keep Warren’s army at bay

Live Mint  

Wall Street has made its peace with a Joe Biden victory, taking comfort in his decades-long political career in which moderation is a prevailing trait. Though banks, private equity firms and hedge funds mostly escaped the spotlight during a presidential campaign dominated by coronavirus, their top managers and Washington lobbyists -- many of whom donated to Biden’s run -- are …

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How Hotels And Private Equity Firms Are Plying Congress For A New Bailout
4 years, 5 months ago

How Hotels And Private Equity Firms Are Plying Congress For A New Bailout

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Big hotels, private equity firms and hedge funds are seeking a new government coronavirus bailout, and more than 100 members of Congress from both parties are taking up their cause. “In fact, we have a letter that we created that well over 100 members of Congress signed to send to the Treasury ― Democrats and Republicans alike …

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FBI says private equity, hedge funds pose huge risk for money laundering
4 years, 5 months ago

FBI says private equity, hedge funds pose huge risk for money laundering

Salon  

A leaked document reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation fears that the investment funds industry is a ripe target for money launderers, and could be a ticking time bomb in the private equity and the hedge fund sector. The leaked intelligence bulletin from Blue Leaks, according to a story broken by Reuters, was published in May under the title …

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Column: The government says you can now invest your 401(k) in private equity. Be very afraid
4 years, 6 months ago

Column: The government says you can now invest your 401(k) in private equity. Be very afraid

LA Times  

Ever on the lookout for new money-making opportunities for the average American, the Trump administration earlier this month cleared the way for 401 plans and similar individual accounts to invest in private equity funds. In his June 3 announcement of the new guidelines, he called the rule change a way to “help Americans saving for retirement gain access to alternative …

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Trump Labor Department quietly offers up 401(k) plans to private equity vultures
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump Labor Department quietly offers up 401(k) plans to private equity vultures

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. With the American public's attention consumed by the COVID-19 pandemic and mass protests against police brutality, the U.S. Labor Department earlier this month quietly gave corporate sponsors of retirement plans something they've been agitating over for years: a government green light to invest workers' savings into funds managed by notoriously predatory private equity …

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Congress Considers Bipartisan Compromise Legislation On Surprise Medical Bills
5 years ago

Congress Considers Bipartisan Compromise Legislation On Surprise Medical Bills

NPR  

Congress Considers Bipartisan Compromise Legislation On Surprise Medical Bills Enlarge this image toggle caption Paul Burns/Getty Images Paul Burns/Getty Images After months of hearings and negotiations, millions of dollars in attack ads, full-court-press lobbying efforts and countless rounds of negotiations, Congress appears to be moving toward a solution to the nation's surprise medical bill problem. James Gelfand, a senior vice …

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Taylor Swift, Elizabeth Warren and the private equity debate, explained
5 years, 1 month ago

Taylor Swift, Elizabeth Warren and the private equity debate, explained

LA Times  

Taylor Swift is engaged in a public dispute with the owners of her catalog, Scott Bochetta and Scooter Braun, who are funded by the private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Taylor Swift’s ongoing dispute with her record company, the Big Machine Label Group, its founder Scott Borchetta and new owner Scooter Braun has caught the attention and elicited responses from …

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Warren, Ocasio-Cortez probe private-equity firms with prison ties
5 years, 3 months ago

Warren, Ocasio-Cortez probe private-equity firms with prison ties

Al Jazeera  

Five private equity companies invested in prison services – BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, H.I.G. “Private equity-owned prison support services use their market power to make millions of dollars off those who are incarcerated, their families, and their communities – often while providing subpar products and services,” say the letters, dated Sept. 30. That bill would limit the dividends private equity …

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Elizabeth Warren pitches new constraints on private equity
5 years, 5 months ago

Elizabeth Warren pitches new constraints on private equity

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren is proposing new regulations on the private equity industry, pitching constraints designed to end what she decries as “legalized looting” by investment firms that take over troubled companies. The new private equity rules bring Warren’s detail-driven campaign back to the familiar ground that launched her political career — reining in Wall Street. Financial …

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