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wsj.com | Chris Cumming
Lawmakers pass what would be nation’s toughest rules against corporate investors’ controlling healthcare practicesMay 29, 2025 4:36 pm ET|WSJ ProOregon lawmakers approved a bill to block private-equity firms from controlling healthcare practices, which analysts say would be the nation’s strictest ban on corporate influence in medicine.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming
A lobbying blitz might have shored up support for carried interest, a controversial tax provision President Trump wants to endMay 7, 2025 3:16 pm ET|WSJ ProWall Street lobbyists might have secured enough backing to preserve a tax provision for fund managers—the carried-interest treatment—that is under threat in the Republican-led tax negotiations.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming
The New York asset manager is more heavily tilted toward Asia than its fellow private-equity giants and expects to stay its course in the regionMay 1, 2025 3:04 pm ET|WSJ ProExecutives of KKR & Co. believe President Trump’s tariffs will have little effect on its portfolio companies, and promised to maintain an emphasis on Asia despite a looming trade war that has rattled the region.
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1 month ago | 
finance.yahoo.com | Chris Cumming
Executives of KKR & Co. believe President Trump’s tariffs will have little effect on its portfolio companies, and promised to maintain an emphasis on Asia despite a looming trade war that has rattled the region.
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1 month ago | 
fnlondon.com | Chris Cumming
KKR Executives Foresee Only a Mild Tariffs Hit to Portfolio CompaniesThe New York asset manager is more heavily tilted toward Asia than its fellow private-equity giants and expects to stay its course in the region Published May 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM ET Executives of KKR & Co. believe President Trump’s tariffs will have little effect on its portfolio companies, and promised to maintain an emphasis on Asia despite a looming trade war that has rattled the region.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming
The private-markets manager intends to back high-growth companies with lower risk profilesApril 25, 2025 6:00 am ET|WSJ ProPublicly traded private-markets manager StepStone Group hit its fundraising goal for a new vehicle that aims to back rapidly growing technology and healthcare companies without the high risk of loss that often comes with such deals.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming
Lawmakers in several states are considering new restrictions on private-equity investment in medical practices, while lobbyists and industry groups push back at these attempts to check corporate healthcare acquisitions. New Mexico has become the second state this year to strengthen scrutiny of healthcare mergers, joining Massachusetts, which passed its own bill expanding disclosures for private-equity takeovers in January. Exclusive bankruptcy data, filings and news. Be the first to know.
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1 month ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming
New Mexico’s measure, signed into law April 7 by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, gives the state power to review all transactions in which hospitals change hands. It is an enhanced version of a state merger-review bill passed last year that was set to expire in July. While the law doesn’t target private equity, state Rep. Reena Szczepanski, a Democrat who introduced the legislation, said many people in her state are concerned about buyout firms and other corporate entities owning hospitals.
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2 months ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming |Luis Garcia |Luis García
Two federal courts made contradictory decisions on lawsuits claiming Apollo Global Management’s insurer Athene is too risky to manage pension assetsApril 2, 2025 6:00 am ET|WSJ ProFor the past year, the insurance industry has been on edge over a series of class-action lawsuits arguing that Athene Holding, an insurer tied to private-markets giant Apollo Global Management, is too risky to be part of America’s retirement system.
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2 months ago | 
wsj.com | Chris Cumming
U.S. authorities are investigating potential fraud in the 2022 sale of software business Mobileum, court papers show, raising the stakes of a legal fight between private-equity firms H.I.G. Capital and Audax over a deal in which each firm has accused the other of misdeeds. H.I.G. Capital and Audax are suing each other in Delaware over Mobileum, a telecommunications-software business H.I.G acquired in 2022 and that filed for bankruptcy last year.
