Nearly six years later, Greenwell has funneled what she learned into a new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. The book is a deeply human account of the ways in ...

Instead of focusing on the macroeconomic level, she tells the story through four remarkable people whose lives were upended after private equity acquisitions. Liz was a Toys R Us floor supervisor when ...

Datasite, a private equity-backed company that caters to dealmakers, has acquired private markets-focused Grata for more than $200 million to help give customers an edge in transactions.

Meet the players. There are two main camps of firms with private equity money: the "motherships" and the "roll-ups." Motherships are when large firms, like Top 10 Firm Grant Thornton or Top 25 Firm ...

Today, I’m talking with Megan Greenwell, a former top editor at Wired and Deadspin, about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.It comes out on June 10th ...

This growing movement of private equity into the global economy is by no means limited to health care. In 2020, private equity firms employed 11.7 million U.S. workers , or about 7% of the country ...

Takeaways. PNM parent company TXNM Energy announced early Monday morning it has entered into an $11.5 billion takeover deal with private equity giant Blackstone Infrastructure.

OMERS Private Equity acquired KAG in 2015 The Canadian affiliate of Kenan Advantage Group (KAG), backed by OMERS Private Equity, has acquired Fisher Transport, a company specializing in liquid ...

Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of state and federal regulators across the nation and alarming advocates.

Meriden-based chocolatier Thompson Chocolate has been acquired by a national company, Chocolate Works, which is backed by a private equity investor. Thompson became one of the first chocolate ...

Private equity firms are taking the longest in more than a decade to give investors their money back. Elite college endowments, some of their most dependable clients, can’t wait much longer.

Skechers Chief Executive and founder Robert Greenberg could have been the key driver behind the footwear company's private-equity acquisition, Williams Trading analyst Sam Poser says. Greenberg ...