company townFeb. 26, 2007 Barbarians at the Energy GridFINANCE • A group led by Kohlberg Kravis is taking energy giant TXU private for $45 billion, besting the Blackstone record by $6 billion.

One-month return of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (NYSE:KKR) was 21.83%, and its shares gained 33.63% of their value over the last 52 weeks.

On Friday last week, Spectris had accepted the increased offer from Advent and withdrew its recommendation of a GBP40 per share bid from KKR but switched horses again on Tuesday. The acquisition is ...

Industrial group Spectris has agreed to a takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) worth more than £4 billion after the private equity giant muscled out rival bidder Advent International ...

Industrial group Spectris has agreed to a takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) worth more than £4bn after the private equity giant muscled out rival bidder Advent International.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Henry Kravis, speaking on a conference call on Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts' nl:kpe Amsterdam-listed fund, said the private equity group is still optimistic it will able to ...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is expected to announce the formation of a new company with Jonathan Grayer, the former chief executive of Kaplan Inc., the education unit of the Washington Post Co ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- One or more of the funds that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the New York private-equity firm, manages may invest in the common units of KKR Private Equity Investors LP.

Very early days, but things aren’t going too well so far for KKR’s effort to take private equity to public investors. Here’s the NYT story. Daily insights on business use cases with VB Daily ...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. agreed in principle to acquire closely held oil and natural-gas explorer Samson Investment Co. in a $7.2 billion deal that will greatly expand the private equity firm ...

Some investors in Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' funds are concerned over a disruption in alignment of interests as KKR's IPO will put the buyout shop under shareholder pressure to meet short-term goals ...

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a private equity fund, is looking to raise $6 billion to establish a new pool for Asian startups. Reuters reports that the new funding will be raised during the ...