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Henry Kravis: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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Henry Kravis began his career as Vice-President of Katy Industries, where he designed their acquisition program. He then joined Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a partner, and stayed until l976, when he and two partners founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a merchant banking firm that pioneered the development of the management buyout.
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Established in 2006, The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recognizes and celebrates extraordinary accomplishment and bold, visionary leadership in the nonprofit sector. The Kravis Prize is administered by Claremont McKenna College, the Kravis Leadership Institute, and Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis. Mrs. Kravis, an economist, is a Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute; Mr. Kravis, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an alumnus and trustee of Claremont McKenna College.
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Bells will be ringing, and carolers will be greeting the Upper East Side neighbors of Henry Kravis this morning. It may be Christmastime, but the revelers are not there to embrace the holiday. They will be outside the apartment of Mr. Kravis, a founder of the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, for a sidewalk screening of the first of a series of short films crusading against private equity firms. Passers-by can catch the film on high-technology sandwich boards being worn by protesters. The movie, “The War on Greed, Starring the Homes of Henry Kravis,” is a tongue-in-cheek story — think “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” meets “Roger & Me” — detailing Mr. Kravis’s homes and lifestyle, juxtaposed against the homes and incomes of working families. Read on.
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Altana AG is in talks to buy Rockwood Holdings Inc for €4 billion from buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), manager magazin reported, citing people familiar with the negotiations. Altana refused to comment on the report but at the same time confirmed that takeovers are part of its strategy, the magazine said in its online edition. Altana plans to meet with Rockwood's executive board on April 7 and aims to make considerable progress in takeover talks before Altana's annual general meeting on May 5, the magazine added.
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After receiving his MBA at Columbia Business School, Mr. Kravis worked in the corporate finance department of Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. from 1970 to 1976, and he became a partner in 1975. In 1976, he and two partners founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a merchant banking firm that pioneered the development of the leveraged buyout.
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On the heels of the Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) IPO, which will raise over $4.1 billion, buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is looking at a public offering of its own. The amount that would be taken in is a more modest $750 million.
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