Private equity

A Senate committee and two federal agencies are taking closer looks at how private equity’s ownership of hospitals and physician staffing companies is affecting health care.

There's news that department store chain Nordstrom is looking to go private, after a previous attempt failed.

A private equity firm has agreed to buy Subway. It may need to close stores in the U.S., but expand overseas.

Hedge funds and private equity loans might lend like banks, but they're not regulated like them.

Private equity "is a major driver of the enormous gulf between rich and poor in this country," says author Gretchen Morgenson.

When a new operator took over an addiction treatment center in Nashville, former employees say they saw cutbacks.

Private equity firms and other real estate investors are taking advantage of high mortgage rates in low-income neighborhoods, says housing strategist Majora Carter.

A new investigation by The New Yorker delves into the acquisition of a Virginia nursing home and what happened next.

Heather Vogell of ProPublica finds short term-oriented corporate investors are increasingly becoming apartment landlords.

Investors seem less welcoming to IPOs than in 2021.