Blackstone

This company appeared on Global Exchange's list of "10 Top Corporate Criminals of 2017" for being one of the largest multi-national private equity, investment and financial services corporations in the world and leveraging ties to Trump to gain business advantage, from tax loopholes to securing contacts in Saudi Arabia.
Source: Global Exchange (2017)

In 2022 the median pay for a worker at this company was US$237,000. The CEO was paid 1,068 times this amount. Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality. CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more). In contrast, the CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio was 20-to-1 in 1965 and 58-to-1 in 1989.
Source: AFL-CIO (2023)

This company owns a number of gambling related assets from Las Vegas to Spain.
Source: news article (2021)

The 2022 Financial System Benchmark ranks 400 financial institutions across three measurement areas: governance and strategy, respecting planetary boundaries (environment, climate and biodiversity) and adhering to societal conventions (human rights). This company ranked #282/400, with a total score of 4.7/100.
Source: World Benchmarking Alliance (2022)

JUST Capital polls Americans every year to identify the issues that matter most in defining just business behaviour. For their 2023 rankings JUST Capital asked a representative sample of 3,002 Americans to compare 20 different business Issues on a head-to-head basis, producing a reliable hierarchy of Issues ranked in order of priority. Issues are organised under the headings Workers, Customers, Communities, the Environment, or Shareholders & Governance. JUST Capital then define metrics that map to those issues and track and analyse the largest, publicly traded U.S. companies. This analysis powers their rankings, in which this company ranked in the Bottom 10% of 951 companies, and 34th of 34 Capital Markets companies.
Source: JUST Capital (2023)

On 29 August 2013, this company agreed to pay US$85m to settle an investor class action lawsuit accusing it of not disclosing bad investments before its US$4.7b initial public offering in 2007.
Source: Reuters (2013)

In 2014, this company, together with other private equity firms KKR and TPG, agreed to pay US$325m to settle a lawsuit that accused seven private equity groups of conspiring to fix the prices of some of the world's biggest leveraged buyouts.
Source: Financial Times (2014)

On 7 October 2015, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission announced that three private equity fund advisers within this company agreed to pay nearly US$39m to settle charges that they failed to fully inform investors about benefits that the advisers obtained from accelerated monitoring fees and discounts on legal fees.
Source: US SEC (2015)

This company is on OpenSecrets.org's list of "Top Donors", a list of the 100 biggest givers in US federal-level politics since 1990. Companies on this list lobby and spend big, with large sums sent to candidates, parties and leadership PACs. This company comes in at number 21 on the list, with contributions totalling $82,304,331 between 1990 and 2020.
Source: Open Secrets (2020)

This company received an S&P Global ESG Score of 32/100 in the Diversified Financial Services and Capital Markets category of the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, an annual evaluation of companies' sustainability practices (last updated 16 Dec 2022). The rankings are based on an analysis of corporate economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as corporate governance, risk management, environmental reporting, climate strategy, human rights and labour practices.
Source: S&P Global (2022)