Word: kohlberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...involvement with outside LBOs and venture capital firms has also come into question, particularly after one of the partnerships--Wall Street-based Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company--took over tobacco and consumer goods producer RJR-Nabisco at a time when the University was questioning its public investments in the company...
...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...
...million on the deal but failed to show much sympathy for the employees who might be transferred or laid off. They had, he said, "very portable types of professions." RJR's board decided Johnson did too. They fired him, after selling the company instead to leveraged-buyout specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...