What can legal academics add to the debate about private equity?

Dear Editor,  In December 2015, Unite — Britain’s largest trade union — called on the UK government to investigate the ‘secretive machinations of private equity firms’ following the near-collapse of Fairline Boats, a Northamptonshire yacht-builder employing well over 400 people.1 Unite’s demands were not new: as the economic influence of private equity firms has increased in […]

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