- Trump’s Labor Department clears the way for private equity funds to tap directly into workers’ retirement money
- New study shows 1.3 million US jobs lost in US private equity’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’, with more on the way
- US pension funds and private equity: enormous fees, poor returns
- KKR, the new boss at Unilever spreads
- Unilever, Kraft Heinz and swimming with sharks
- Emergency services turn life-threatening under US private equity owners - and a global Trade in Services Agreement would globalize the damage
- New report documents private equity fee racket
- Private equity the new shadow banks?
- Plunder, profit and private equity - a Trojan horse and the future of regulation
- Largest US public pension funds have 'no idea' of fees paid to private equity managers
- Burger King's debt whopper is a public subsidy to fast food poverty
- Heinz, Mondelez and the private equity effect
- Volatility alert for hospitality employees: Private equity pushes REITs aside as top hotel owner
- The more things change: Heinz and the varieties of private equity buyout
- Banks, buyout firms agree to major settlement in lawsuit charging planned bankruptcy of major retailer - a 'game changer' for private equity?
- MF Global - canary in the (financial) coalmine?
- Kraft and Private Equity Slash and Burn at UK’s Burton’s Biscuits
- EU Regulation of Private Equity: Results and Prospects
- Blackstone surfs government Hilton subsidy to demand massive concessions from hotel workers
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Calls for Measures to Limit Food Commodities Speculation
- Blackstone (& Friends) Buy Extended Stay Hotels - This Time at Half Price
- Demerging Accor - Less Than the Sum of the Parts?
- Blackmailing the Taxman, from Davos to Sydney
- Kraft and Cadbury, Victors and Spoils
- Blackstone's Hilton Woes Will Weigh on Workers
- Recap Rerun: Short Memories, Missing Regulation
- IPO Blues
- Private Equity Pain for Education and Public Workers
- The Next Debt Bubble? PE Fuels Subprime Microfinance in India
- US Pension Funds' Private Equity Disaster: Lost on the Road to Alphaville
- Illusion, Reality, and the Quarterly Report
- CVC Capital in Bid for Anheuser-Busch InBev ECE Operations
- Stella D'oro Workers to Fight Retaliatory Plant Closure
- Debt matters: what is at stake in the struggle to refinance portfolio companies
- Buyouts, Bread Sticks, Biscotti – and Challenges for the Obama Administration
- Carlyle in USD 20 Million Settlement in New York Pension Fund Kickback Investigation
- Spotlight on 'Placement Agents' Throws New Light on Fee Racket
- Private Equity and the European Commission: the Big Bluff
- Buy'em, Bleed'em, Buy'em Again Cheap: Could Debt-for-Equity Swaps Secure Continued PE-Ownership of Bankrupt Portfolio Companies?
- The Commissioner, 'Transparency', and Codes of Conduct: the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel?
- 'Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here': US Buyout Funds Positioning to Profit from Potential New Tax Breaks
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Investors Fleeing PE Commitments Pay the Price
- Debt Drives Premier Foods, Largest UK Food Group, into the Arms of…Private Equity
- Leveraged Loan Bankers Say 50% of Companies on the Edge
- Investors Fleeing Credit Meltdown Selling Stakes in Buyout Funds
- US Regulatory Changes Pave Way for Private Equity Funds to Acquire Failing Banks
- Norwegian Unions, IUF Call on Norway State Pension Fund: Just Say No to Private Equity, Hedge Funds
- PE Funds' Growing Stakes in Listed Companies, or How to Extract 2 + 20 Through the Stock Market
- Carrefour's blues: global retailers squeezed by private equity fund activism
- European Parliament Adopts Eurosocialist Call for Regulation of Private Equity, Hedge Funds
- Sharp Rise in LBO-Related Defaults
- BCTGM on Strike in New York as Private Equity Owners Seek to Devour Wages, Benefits
- Eurosocialists Push for Comprehensive Regulation of Private Equity, Hedge Funds
- Pension Funds Continue to Pour Money into Faltering Buyout Business
- New Era in Litigation? Bankrupt US Retailer Charges PE Funds with Asset Stripping
- 'Unlocking Value': US PE Chiefs' 2007 Pay At 19,000 Times Average Wage
- Lion Capital Hauls in Europe's Biggest Seafood Operation from CapVest
- Financializing Food: Schroders Closes One Fund, Launches New as Speculative Money Continues to Flood into Commodity Funds
- All-you-can-eat Dividend Recaps Sink Major US Restaurant Chain
- SEIU Targets Buyout Fund KKR for Global Action
- IUF at ILO Highlights Role of Financial Speculation in Food Price Crisis
- Slash and Burn Sun Capital Extends Reach in Produce, Coffee, Restaurants
- No Deleveraging in PE Buyouts: New Study Points to Rising Debt, Rising Risk of Default
- Financializing Food: Deregulation, Commodity Markets and the Rising Cost of Food
- Lion Capital Picks Up Russia's Biggest Vodka Maker
- Socialist Group in European Parliament Links Financial Crisis to Soaring Food Prices
- New SEIU Report on Sovereign Wealth Funds Highlights Need for New Regulation
- Sovereign Wealth Funds and Private Equity
- Global Credit Crisis? Record 2008 Fund Raising for PE Firms
- Locusts into Vultures 2: Funds in $12.5 Billion Debt Buyback Deal
- IUF at the European Parliament Highlights Dangers, Risks of Private Equity Buyouts
- Night of the LBO Dead
- The Debenhams Deal: Autopsy of a Quick Flip
- Permira Overruns Union, Management Opposition to Squeeze 'Special Dividend' Out of Fashion Firm Hugo Boss
- Japanese Union Opposition to Hedge Fund Takeover Bid for Sapporo Breweries
- Permira's Arysta Buyout Takes PE into Agrochemicals
- Proposed UK Legislation Extends Acquired Employment Rights to Buyouts
- Illusion, Reality and Spin: Davos, LBOs and Job Destruction
- New IUF Publication on Private Equity and Collective Bargaining
- Growing Pension Fund Stakes Feed PE Search for 'Permanent Money'
- PE Owners Combine Findus, Young's to Create European Seafood Giant
- Kraft Spinoff CanGro Continues to Shrink Jobs Through Closures, Outsourcing
- PE Firms Step into Brewery Wars
- Financial Alchemy Continues as Blackstone Uses Stock to Fund…Hedge Fund Purchase for More Credit Deals
- Behind the Credit Crunch
- Private Equity's Growing Reach in Food Testing
- Penny a Basket for Tomato Pickers Too Much for PE-Owned Burger King
- Casino Business Wobbles at High Stakes Debt Table
- Private Equity Workshop Advances Union Bargaining Agenda
- How Toxic is LBO Debt? Food Safety Issues Spreading in PE-Owned Food
- Food Buyouts Roll on in UK
- Buyouts Booming in India's Food Processing Sector
- Swedish Food Workers on Alert as EQT Eyes Government Spirit Company
- Massive Recall of Contaminated Beef Forces Immediate Closure of PE-Owned US Meat Company
- Lion Capital Calls in the Union-Busters
- Locusts into Vultures: Buyout Firms Turn to Speculating in…LBO Debt
- Private Equity Advances in Agriculture
- The Carlyle Model: Permira Recruits Former Dutch Finance Minister
- Study Documents Devastating Impact of PE Ownership in US Nursing Homes
- SEIU Calls on Carlyle to Disclose Impact of Major Health Care Acquisition
- Buyouts Continue for Mid-Sized Food Companies
- New Wharton Study Shows the Measure of the Buyout Fee Racket
- US Private Equity Lobby Claims Progress in Beating Back Calls for Higher Taxes
- Learning from the Locusts: When corporate management starts acting like private equity
- TUAC President calls for OECD examination of the role of hedge funds and private equity in current financial instability
- Unite urges Sainsbury's board to block takeover
- Record Russian LBO as Lion Capital Buys Drinks Maker
- The Harsh World of Leveraged Buyouts Has Suddenly Gotten Harsher
- Learning from the Locusts: "Newly Discovered Financial Tool" Powers Buybacks, Dividends for Multinational Pizza Chain
- UK Unions Slam Walker Commission for Silence on Worker Rights
- Steel Partners Loses Bid to Block Poison Pill at Japanese Sauce Maker
- Debt Contagion
- Hilton Hotels Bought by Blackstone
- Struggle for Migrant Worker Rights at Colony Capital-owned French Fast Food Chain
- Taxes are only half the story, the other is DEBT: Proposals to tax private equity firms are just the beginning, not the end of the debate
- Private equity firms lobby against new US tax proposals
- Private equity firms "paying less tax than a cleaning lady or other low-paid workers": private equity tax loopholes in the spotlight
- GMB Congress report on PE’s broken pension promises
- UK Financial Services Authority alarmed by leverage in buyouts - The Independent (UK)
- Second private equity fund drops out of bidding for Coca-Cola Korea Bottling Co (CCKBC)
- Critical Analysis Shows Private Equity Job-Creation Claims "Worthless"
- Nestle sells Turtles confectionery brand to private equity fund
- Cadbury US Beverages Sale to "Unlock" Shareholder Windfall
- New IUF Publication: A Workers' Guide to Private Equity Buyouts
- US, European Unionists Call for International Action on Buyouts
- AFL-CIO Challenges Blackstone IPO
- Steel Partners launches buyout bid for leading Japanese sauce manufacturer, Bull-Dog
- Swedish Union Reps Describe 6 Years of Asset Stripping at Findus under EQT
- Merrill Lynch Warning as Private Equity Targets Big Retail: "If we don't stop it, everyone will be up to their necks in debt"
- Investcorp Acquires US Hotel Portfolio for $450 million
- Burton's Foods (UK) to cut 660 jobs, two months after Duke Street Capital buyout
- Unions Call for OECD Action on Private Equity
- Ahold in $7-billion deal to sell U.S. Foodservice to private equity firms
- Top 50 Buyout Funds Ranked
- CCA sale in Korea faces strikes - Australian Financial Review
- 'Companies Act Change May Hamper Brait's Bid' - Business Day
- Korean Coca-Cola unions declare opposition to possible buyout by CVC Capital Partners, threaten industrial action
- IUF at the European Parliament: Private Equity's Impact on the European Food Sector
- 'Pass the Cookies' - Goldman Sachs Raises $20 Billion Buyout Fund
- CVC Capital Partners in bid for buyout of Coca-Cola Korea Bottling Company (CCKBC)
- Chris' & Pitt's Food Products, Inc. to be Acquired by Creo Capital Partners, LLC
- Heinz Shares Rise on Report of Possible Sale, Buyout - Bloomberg
- Blackstone Group sells Extended Stay Hotels to Lightstone Group for US$8 billion
- Four Seasons Hotels "goes private" in buyout by Bill Gates' Cascade Investment & Kingdom Hotels International
- Japan Airlines Corp (JAL) sells hotels in Tokyo and Okinawa to US-based private equity funds
- South Africa's Tiger Brands to sell Dairybelle dairy unit to private equity fund
- Cashing in Early: New Accounting at Blackstone to Book Buyout Profits Before Companies Sold Off!
- Private equity buyout of German confectionery firm van Netten
- TXU maintenance workers reach deal with TXU buyers, KKR and Texas Pacific Group
- PRIVATE INEQUITY: HOW MAMMOTH BUYOUTS ARE CHANGING BUSINESS FOR THE WORSE
- The New Titans of Wall Street: Unlike Past Entrepreneurs These Men Like to Hide in the Shadows out of the Public's Scrutiny - ABC NEWS
- Private-equity buyouts in the hotel industry: Hilton's sale of Scandic to EQT
- 'Harpooning the Whale: Blackstone Group's bid to go public has exposed some interesting tax games' - NEWSWEEK
- Banks 'Salivating' Over Fees as $100 bn LBO Looms/Unilever Takeover in 'Realm of Possibility'
- 'Inside the Blackstone IPO' - www.blackstonerevealed.blogspot.com
- 'Private equity drives appetite in the European food sector' - FT.com
- Blackstone to use partnership structure to pay almost no tax after flotation
- Teaming up with the Locusts: A New Private Equity Model?
- 'McCreevy slammed on private equity defence' - unison.ie
- 'Cadbury a sweet target for bidders' - The Birmingham Post
- ITUC supports calls for new transparency and tax rules for private equity
- 'Dutch MPs summon hedge funds’ - The Financial Times
- ‘Private equity firm takes Burton’s biscuits with £210m purchase’ - The Times (UK)
- Spotlight Grows on US Tax Breaks Favoring Private Equity Buyouts
- International Unions Call for Tax, Regulatory Measures to Rein in Private Equity
- Blackstone Seeks "Massive Enrichment" Through IPO
- 'Unions call for G8 action on private equity' - The Financial Times (UK)
- Private-equity takeover bid for Unilever? Talk of takeover target boosts share prices
- Unions call on G8 Leaders to work on new transparency and tax rules for private equity - TUAC News
- Possible buyout of Cadbury Schweppes US beverage division by Blackstone and Lion Capital
- Private-equity funds target Carrefour
- T&G Responds to UK Government on Private Equity
- German tax reforms threaten private equity returns
- "Unions round the world unite against private equity threat", The Independent (UK)
- 'They are a risk to the economy as a whole' - The UK is waking up to the power of private equity. But the IUF has long warned of the dangers.
- 'Canadian Union Leader Opposes Private-Equity Deal for Chrysler' - The Washington Post
- Exit by Stealth: TPG Completes Sale of Gate Gourmet
- UK Financial Regulators Under New Pressure to Broaden Sources of Funding for LBOs
- Report exposes "......[buyout firms] breaking implicit agreements with respect to pay that transfer wealth from employees to the new owners"
- UK Union debate on tax regimes panics private-equity funds
- UK Unions Intensify Call for Political Action to Curb Buyout Funds
- REUTERS: Private equity ownership damages ratings - S&P (March 1 2007)
- CVC Capital Partners and Nordic Capital buyout of LEAF: Killing the milkcow
- Article in The Independent (UK) on Union Criticism of Private-Equity Buyouts
- Fishupdate.com: Birds Eye protest moves to Germany
- Article in The Observer (UK) Cites IUF Call for Labour Party Action on Leveraged Buyouts
- Destination India for private equity funds
- Private-equity funds - Invisible Employers?
- FINANCIALIZATION: NEW ROUTES TO PROFIT, NEW CHALLENGES FOR TRADE UNIONS
- Private-equity buyouts of companies in IUF sectors - the changing organizing & bargaining environment
- Private-equity buyouts in the hotel industry
- Texas Pacific Group's takeover of Gate Gourmet leads to "meticulously planned assault on trade unions"
- Colony Capital buyouts in the hotel industry
- A Goldman Sachs buyout of Unilever?
- Lion Capital buyout of Kettle Foods
- Burger King pays out whopper US$400 million dividend for Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital & Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
- Lion Capital and Blackstone buyout of the European Beverages Division of Cadbury Schweppes
- Blackstone and PAI acquisition of United Biscuits (UB)
- Lion Capital buyout of Weetabix
- Private-equity fund, Blackstone Group, the top hotel owner in the Americas
- The buyout of Tokyu Tourist Corporation & its impact on unions
- Blackstone Group buyout of Pinnacle Foods
- 'Barbarians At The Gate II ' - BusinessWeek (US)
- 'Barbarians or benefactors? The rise and rise of private equity' - The Guardian (UK)
- "Barbarians at the Gate" - KKR's leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988