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Everything Is Worse Because of Private Equity


The key distinctions between private equity and venture capital ...

There are often multiple categories of leaver in a PE transaction, whereas VC deals normally only cover 'good leaver' and 'bad leaver'. In a ...

When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord - ProPublica

Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, ...

The DSO Down-Low: How Private Equity Has Infiltrated Dentistry

The next way is that DSOs can often pay more than a traditional new dentist buyer for the practice, because ... Luckily I don't think it's all bad ...

The Case for Private Equity in Downturns - Moonfare

Private equity's model and form of ownership has demonstrated resilience in times of elevated inflation and muted economic growth. In this ...

Private Equity: Economic and Social Risks - Hansard - UK Parliament

This investment is welcome, but private equity also poses threats to jobs, pensions, the country's tax base and the wider economy. On average, ...

Key issues for private equity funds of the future | EY - US

The income generated tends to be primarily dividends and capital gains, with a preponderance of the latter, because free cash flow at PortCos tends to be ...

Building a Better Model for Private Equity - Tuck School of Business

It's also a challenge for the people managing private equity because they have to work with the data they can get, even if it is less complete.

What Happens When Your Company Is Bought by Private Equity ...

Having represented many founders for closed deals with PE firms, below are some of our thoughts about what founders can expect post-transaction.

How Private Equity Makes You Sicker - The American Prospect

Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering. by Eileen ...

'The Investment Firms Leave Behind a Barren Wasteland' - POLITICO

Is the private equity purchase of newspaper chains the cause of their ruination or the effect? Private investment funds are directly ...

How private equity firms are designed to earn big while risking little ...

PE partners typically finance the buyout of a company with 30 per cent equity and 70 per cent debt. Private equity funds use the assets of the ...

A Rough Climate for PE Exits Leads to a Spike in Continuation Funds

Private equity firms, in part because of how their funds are structured, tend to be temporary investors. They buy companies, execute a ...

Hedge Fund vs. Private Equity Fund: What's the Difference?

Hedge funds invest in virtually anything and everything—individual stocks ... This is because a private equity investment is less liquid and needs time ...

When Private-Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own Companies

But companies bought by private-equity firms are 10 times as likely to go bankrupt as those that aren't. The industry's defenders claim that ...

Investors are increasingly attracted to private markets. Why?

Private markets can indeed be more opaque and less accessible than public markets, often including long lock-up periods for investment.

Private Equity Is Killing Your Pets | The Nation

Harming customers and employees is a terrible way to sustain a business. But private equity firms often succeed when their companies struggle or ...

Private Equity Is a Parasite Consuming the US Health System

Private equity firms are financial termites devouring the woodwork and foundations of the US health care system. ... Demonstrated results of ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System

Because these perspectives on equity are new ... The acquisition of primary care practices by health systems and private equity investors ...

The impact of private equity ownership in health care

Private equity firms argue they bring value to health care. Critics of private equity's approach say the intense drive for quick profit puts ...

Webinar Recap: Avoiding Bad C-Suite Hires in Private Equity ...

Eric compared a bad C-suite hire to an iceberg. There are immediate, obvious effects, like lost compensation and time. But the lingering, long- ...