KKR Invests in Lyft
Global investment firm KKR, today announced the closing of a primary investment in Lyft, a ridesharing platform in the U.S. KKR is making the investment through its Next Generation Technology Fund, a More...
Leon Black’s private equity firm Apollo Seeks $20 Billion for New Buyout Fund, Report
Leon Black’s private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC, is seeking $20 billion for its ninth global buyout fund, the biggest pool of capital for private equity deals since the financial crisis, More...
KKR Gets Record $13.9 Billion for North American Buyout Fund
KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the final closing of $13.9 billion fund, the most ever raised for a buyout pool focused on North America. Americas 12th Fund, gathered the maximum More...
Cash Pile on Menu at Kravis and Schwarzman’s Kazakhstan Dinner
KKR & Co. founder Henry Kravis, Blackstone Group LP Chairman Stephen Schwarzman and Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein were more than willing guests when Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev More...
KKR to Buy Stake in London Hedge-Fund Firm Marshall Wace
KKR & Co. purchase a 24.9 percent strategic interest in London-based Marshall Wace LLP marks the New York private-equity firm’s most significant move yet into hedge funds. The price wasn’t disclosed, More...
Jerome Kohlberg, Co-Founder of Buyout Pioneer KKR, Dies at 90
Jerome Kohlberg, The “spiritual father of the entire LBO industry, ” as Fortune magazine called him, and co-founder of private-equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, KKR & Co., has died. He More...
KKR’s Kravis Gives $100 Million For Rockefeller University Lab
Henry Kravis and his wife Marie-Josee’s foundation is giving a leadership gift of $100 million to Rockefeller University to help build a laboratory building in Manhattan. The Research Building, two More...
Mario Gabelli Has Highest Pay on Wall Street
To the surprise of many, Mario Gabelli is the highest paid CEO on Wall Street, and took home $85 million in 2013. What is unexpected is that, as manager of GAMCO investments which he founded in 1977, More...
KKR’s Henry Kravis Clinches Digital Deal with Legendary Swiss Publisher Ringier
KKR’s Henry Kravis persuaded Ringier, a 180 year old Swiss publishing business, to do a joint deal for the latter’s digital assets, with KKR holding a 49% stake. Chairman Michael Ringier, More...
Henry Kravis’ KKR Buying $400 Million Stake in Chinese Chicken Producer
KKR & Co., the private-equity firm led by billionaires Henry Kravis and George Roberts, acquired a minority stake in China’s largest chicken grower Fujian Sunner Development Co., for about $400 More...