Stories tagged with KKR
Henry Kravis is at the door, knocking politely
By Laurie Bennett | March 18, 2009 at 9:17am | 2 
Buyout king Henry Kravis has been humbled, if only slightly.
Meet TXU-ex John Wilder, super tycoon
By Gary Jacobson | October 15, 2007 at 8:05am | 1
America’s newest quarter-billionaire, who just completed one of the largest corporate buyout deals in history, plans to relax a bit for the next few months.
Among John Wilder’s main ambitions in that timespan are driving coast-to-coast, reading the Bible cover to cover, riding a camel, camping with his sons, and learning how to ballroom dance.
The former chairman and CEO of TXU is now technically unemployed. But he personally walked away with more than $270 million from the $32 billion private equity buyout, completed last week.
Competition on a new level
By Muckety | July 5, 2007 at 4:41pm | 0
The long-standing rivalry between Henry Kravis and Stephen A. Schwarzman has reached the IPO front.
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts announced plans yesterday to go public, a path recently taken by Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group.
As with Blackstone, the KKR offering calls for the power to remain in the hands of the managing partners. Henry Kravis and George Roberts will retain 75% of the class A shares.
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