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George Rosenberg Roberts (born 1943) is an American financier. He is one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976.
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.
In 2006, KKR raised a new $17.6 billion fund, the KKR 2006 Fund, with which the firm began executing a series of some of the largest buyouts in history. KKR's $44 billion takeover of Texas-based power utility TXU in 2007 proved to be the largest leveraged buyout of the mid-2000s buyout boom and the largest buyout completed to date. [ 107 ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday against private equity firm KKR & Co, "for repeatedly flouting the premerger antitrust review process," alleging the company avoided ...
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 .
When it comes to organizing initial public offerings, private-equity giant KKR has few peers. Even in the tough market of the past couple of years, the firm has been able to pull off some ...
Good morning. KKR became famous in the 1980s as the leveraged buy-out pioneer that acquired RJR Nabisco—a nail-biting drama chronicled in the book Barbarians at the Gate.Today it’s the world ...
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]