Private equity can be appealing for clients who want access to privately held companies and long-term growth. Access, however, is often limited to accredited and institutional investors. In this ...

The downfall of the most powerful managing partner at one of the world’s most powerful law firms isn’t really a story about ...

From dog food to mattresses and from Chef Boyardee to wedding dresses, a new type of investment firm is making monthly headlines with how it acquires thousands of brands. Private equity firms have ...

Cross-border private equity involves investing in private companies across different countries, typically through funds or direct acquisitions. These investments allow firms to access new markets, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. Private equity isn’t just experimenting with AI. From sourcing targets to assessing risks, the ...

This episode originally aired on July 21, 2025. From dog food to mattresses and from Chef Boyardee to wedding dresses, a new type of investment firm is making monthly headlines with how it acquires ...

Megan Greenwell explains how a private equity takeover forced her out of her dream job and inspired her six-year investigation into the industry’s impact on ...

Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else? The Blackstone Group offices in New York, 2013. The 2010s were, among other things, the decade of private equity. A segment of the finance ...

Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement’s considerable human costs. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...

(WGHP) — North Carolina’s general assembly saw an opportunity and decided it was too good to pass up. The state spent decades building world-class research universities, but a lot of the great work ...