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KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global private-equity and investment company. As of December 31, 2023 [update] , the firm had completed private-equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately $710 billion of total enterprise value.
Jerome Kohlberg Jr. (July 10, 1925 – July 30, 2015) was an American businessman and investor. He was an early pioneer in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries founding private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and later Kohlberg & Company.
Roberts worked for Bear Stearns in the late 1960s and early 1970s becoming a partner at the age of 29. [2] While at Bear Stearns, Roberts, alongside Kohlberg and Kravis, began a series of what they described as "bootstrap" investments. Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout ...
Henry Roberts Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. [1] He is a co-founder of KKR & Co. Inc.. His lavish lifestyle has been criticized by activists looking to reform private equity regulations and restrict the practice of leveraged buyouts he pioneered.
KKR started out as a private equity firm that was founded by cousins Henry Kravis and George Roberts, along with their mentor Jerome Kohlberg, in 1976. The firm is now led by Bae and Nutall.
Joseph Yong Bum Bae is the co-chief executive officer of KKR & Co. Inc, along with Scott Nuttall. [1] [2] The two took over as co-chief executives in fall 2021 from KKR's founders, Henry Kravis and George Roberts. Bae joined KKR in 1996 after a short stint at Goldman Sachs. [1] [2] He is credited with a critical role in KKR's expansion in Asia. [1]
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) Co-Founder Henry Kravis has decided to try his luck with cryptocurrencies. Last year, CCN reported that Howard – co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management ...
The firm was founded in 1987, [1] when American businessman and investor Jerome Kohlberg Jr. resigned from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. over differences in strategy. Kohlberg did not favor the larger buyouts, including Beatrice Companies in 1985 and Safeway in 1986, highly leveraged transactions or hostile takeovers being pursued increasingly by KKR.