EQT

Industry: Unknown

Employees: Unknown

Country (Headquarters): Sweden

Website: https://eqtgroup.com/

Private equity (PE) is heavily criticized for an extractive business model that prioritizes short-term profits over long-term sustainability, often leading to mass layoffs, excessive debt loads on acquired companies, and degraded service quality. Critics argue that PE firms generate high returns for themselves through aggressive cost-cutting and financial engineering, sometimes causing company bankruptcies, harming employee well-being, and, particularly in healthcare, contributing to higher patient mortality