Arizonans fight utility rate hike after private equity takeover. In The Republic, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, Court Rich, calls it a matter of fairness

Arizonans fight utility rate hike after private equity takeover. In The Republic, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, Court Rich, calls it a matter of fairness

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents homeowners fighting against this utility rate increase.) By Rose Law Group Reporter Robson Ranch residents in Eloy are righteously rattled by a rate “increase to their water and sewer bills… after their small utilities were purchased by one of the largest private equity funds in the world,” Netherlands-based CVC DIF. How much of a hike? “The utilities are in some cases seeing rate increases of nearly 90% or…