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...barriers in 1992, the B.A.T deal would be worth two-thirds the total value of the 898 European mergers and acquisitions carried out in the first half of this year. It would rank second only to last year's $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco by the LBO firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...family member in 40 years has held a major job in the company, which merged with Nabisco in 1985. The last ties were cut in January, when heirs sold their stock to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the investment firm that bought RJR Nabisco for $25 billion. In his own small way, Patrick Reynolds has remained an annoyance to relatives and cigarette makers alike. If his book is successful, he says, he will donate a substantial portion of the profits to a lobbying group he is forming, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free America...
When Ross Johnson, flamboyant head of RJR Nabisco, lost his bid for control of the giant food and tobacco company in a $25 billion leveraged-buyout brawl last year, he also lost his job. Last week RJR's new owner, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, announced its surprise choice for Johnson's replacement: Louis Gerstner, 47, marketing maven and president of American Express...
...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...
...LBOs have been lucrative for Harvard, Sperling says. For example, Harvard's investment in the Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company (KKR) limited partnership that recently took over RJR-Nabisco "has generated significant returns for Harvard's account...