Private Equity's Big Scheme, Gut Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA)

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- Private equity (PE) is stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public. Instead, it is offered to specialized investment funds and limited partnerships that take an active role in managing and structuring the companies. In casual usage, "private equity" can refer to these investment firms rather than the companies in which they invest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity

- Judicial dissolution, (* Corporate Death Penalty) informally called the Corporate Death Penalty, is a legal procedure in which a corporation is forced to dissolve or cease to exist. Dissolution is the revocation of a corporation's charter for significant harm to society. In some countries, there are corporate manslaughter laws; however, almost all countries enable the revocation of a corporate charter. There have been numerous calls in the literature for a "corporate death penalty".

In 2019, a study argued that industries that kill more people each year than they employ should have an industry-wide corporate death penalty. Some legal analysis has been done on the idea to revoke corporate charters for environmental violations such as for severe environmental pollution. Actual judicial dissolutions in the US are rare...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution
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- Open AI Should Face the Corporate Death Penalty, Daily Kos, Nov. 12, 2025.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/12/2353061/-OpenAI-Should-Face-the-Corporate-Death-Penalty