[lasr_velocirptr]

I have thinking about doing this for a while. How does one go about verifying whether a business is PE owned or not?

[Spastche]

you can kind of get an idea by looking up who owns it on your state's secretary of state website, if a personal name or an LLC with a local address is the owner it's probably local, but if it's an out of state address then you can probably google it and find out who's address that is associated with