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...bankruptcy blues had already struck another takeover team, go-getting Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Hillsborough Holdings, a Tampa-based building- supplies company formed by KKR in 1988, filed for Chapter 11 protection last week. Although two smaller KKR companies, Seamen Furniture and SCI Television, are also in financial straits, Hillsborough's filing is the first for a large KKR unit. The holdings firm reported liabilities of $347.6 million against assets of $304.2 million...
This February, RJR-Nabisco became a privatecompany after a multi-billion dollar takeover byKohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company (KKR), aWall Street leveraged buyout firm. Harvard, whichwas invested in KKR, now owns part of RJR throughits involvement in the buyout, but can no longervote on its policies...
Gerstner, who was widely expected to succeed American Express Chairman James Robinson, 53, has never run a tobacco business. But KKR partner Henry Kravis chose Gerstner for his prowess as a strategic planner. Among other accomplishments, Gerstner launched the successful Platinum card. As chairman at RJR Nabisco, he will have to engineer the sale of about $8 billion in assets to pay off some of KKR's buyout borrowings. But his compensation will be as tall as his task: as much as $45 million over five years...
...quietly turns her assets over to the Wall Street take-over firm Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts (KKR). The elite company begins a hostile takeover of the Sox, attempting to wrest control of the team from Jean Yawkey and Haywood Sullivan. Adams is joined in her efforts by Donald Trump and Bob Guccione...
...million the University currently has invested in LBOs, Sperling says "somewhere in the low tens of millions of dollars" of that money was in the KKR deal, which was finalized last month...