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Ballou: Blackstone recouped Apria Healthcare DOJ settlement costs via dividend recaps

“One of the examples that I was looking at was Blackstone's acquisition of Apria Healthcare, which ultimately had to enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department because of allegedly selling medical devices that were never actually us…”

Brendan Ballou Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 27:45 Sachin Khajuria and Brendan Ballou – Private Equity: Profit or Plunder? (EP.331)

Assertion Supported

Ballou: PE-Owned Companies Are 10x More Likely to Go Bankrupt

“That also is borne out at least in some of the sort of quantitative studies, suggesting, for instance, that private equity-owned portfolio companies are 10 times as likely to go bankrupt as non-private equity-owned peers.”

Brendan Ballou Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 38:47 Sachin Khajuria and Brendan Ballou – Private Equity: Profit or Plunder? (EP.331)

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