UDR owns 58,800 apartments in numerous cities, and Equity Residential owns nearly three times as many units.
For example, Connecticut, where numerous tax-advantaged private equity and hedge funds are headquartered, also has one of the most underfunded public-employee pension plans in the United States.
And so numerous homeowners have drained their equity through cash-out mortgage refinancing and home equity loans.
Substantial Fees The numerous fees collected by private equity firms have been a frequent lightning rod for the industry.
But officials said they had numerous concerns about whether private equity firms would provide additional capital if a bank's problems deepened.
In recent years, numerous big and small private equity firms across the country have taken large stakes in the back-office operations — the accounting, document processing and title-search departments — of law firms specializing in foreclosure, often called foreclosure mills.
Throughout his career he has represented many companies and investment banks in initial public offerings of securities, and has represented numerous public companies in private equity financing transactions (PIPEs) and the resulting resale registration statements associated with these financings.
That is hard to do with private equity firms, which have numerous businesses owned by funds, each of which is walled off to protect investors.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a $16 billion private equity group, has invested in numerous companies that profit from Medicare.
Through Claridge, his private equity firm, he has made numerous under-the-radar and so far profitable investments, most notably in high-end organic foods.
