Financial Structures & Family Ties

Financial Structures & Family Ties:

Disentangling Purdue Pharma's Corporate Ownership Structure and the Sackler Family Wealth

The Scales of Corporate Harm Lab

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Relationship Between Entities

– Ownership Interest

– Trustee

Colour by variable:

Company Type

– Corporation

– General Partnership

– Limited Partnership

– Limited Company (UK)

– Limited Liability Company

– Trust

Place of Incorporation/Organisation

– Delaware

– New York

– Wyoming

– Wyoming; New York

– British Virgin Islands

– Jersey (Channel Islands, UK)

Corporate Address

– One Stamford Forum, Stamford, CT, USA

– 498 Washington St, Coventry, RI, USA

– North Bay Associates, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

– Corporation Service Company, Wilmington, DE, USA

– Unknown

Bankruptcy Status

– Debtor

– Non-debtor

How to use this visualisation

This is an interactive diagram of the Purdue Pharma LP ownership structure at the time of the company's bankruptcy filing in September 2019. Rectangles represent different corporate and financial entities that either are subsidiaries or have some ownership stake in Purdue Pharma LP. Lines connect related entities with arrows indicating the direction of ownership. Lines are labeled with the percentage of ownership interests held by the parent entity. Entities with 0% ownership have no equity interests but receive a service fee for acting as General Partner. Dashed lines represent the Sackler family members over the age of eighteen who are beneficiaries of trusts that have ownership over corporate entities. It is important to note that this information is incomplete as Purdue is a privately owned company and only the entities filing for bankruptcy are obligated to publicly disclose their finances.

Zoom in and out of the diagram by scrolling or by clicking the magnifying glass buttons in the sidebar. Drag or use the arrow or WASD keys to pan. Return to the orignal zoom and extent using the refresh button next to the zoom buttons in the sidebar. Hover over entities with a mouse to see their immediate parent or subsidiary companies in bold. The tooltip (which can be turned off by toggling the radio button in the sidebar) shows information such as the company type, the place of incorporation/organisation, corporate address, nature of business, status in the Purdue bankruptcy filing, governing law, trustees, as well as assets and liabilities. Colour the entities by selecting among company type, place of incorporation/organisation, corporate address, and bankruptcy status in the dropdown menu. For the best experience, we recommend exploring this visualisation on a laptop or desktop computer rather than on a mobile device.

This visualisation was created by Ruth K. Buck, Emily Rosenman, and Louisa M. Holmes of the Scales of Corporate Harms Lab (SCHLab) in the Department of Geography at Penn State. We have also created a user guide with more detailed information about how to interact and interpret the visualisation. For more information about Purdue Pharma and the role of corporate spatial strategies in perpetuating and profiting from the US opioid epidemic, please read the accompanying text [placeholder for link to journal text].