Details

Last Funding Type

Post-IPO Equity

Industries

Advice,Asset Management,Financial Services,Real Estate,Venture Capital

Founded date

Jan 1, 1976

Operating Status

Active

Stock Symbol

nyse:KKR

Legal Name

KKR & Co., Inc.

Also Known As

KKR,KKR & Co.

Investor Type

PE

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is an investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strategic partners, hedge funds. The company generates attractive investment returns for its fund investors through a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and driving growth and value creation with KKR portfolio companies. The company invests its own capital alongside the capital it manages for fund investors and delivers financing solutions and investment opportunities through its capital markets business. The firm has completed more than two-hundred-eighty private equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately $545 billion of total enterprise value as of June 30, 2017. Assets Under Management (“AUM”) and Fee Paying Assets Under Management (“FPAUM”) were $153 billion and $114 billion, respectively as of September 30, 2017.

Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts, all of whom had previously worked together at Bear Stearns, where the three completed some of the leveraged buyout transactions founded the company. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has completed a number of transactions including the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was a large buyout in history to that point, as well as the 2007 buyout of TXU, which is currently also a large buyout completed to date since its founding.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has offices in 21 cities in 16 countries across 5 continents. The firm is currently headquartered in the Solow Building, New York, but in October 2015, the firm announced its intentions to occupy a newly constructed 30 Hudson Yards.

In October 2009, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts listed shares in the company through KKR & Co., an affiliate that holds 30% of the firm's ownership equity, with the remainder held by the firm's partners. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in March 2010, with trading commencing four months later, on July 15, 2010.

It was founded on 1976 and is headquartered in New York.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has had 99 exits. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts most notable exits include Policygenius ,   AcuFocus

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has acquired 167 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Borden Chemical on Jan 1, 1995. They acquired Borden Chemical for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Jan 1, 1995 Borden Chemical	Manufacturing	—	—	Detail
Dec 3, 2002 Legrand	Electronics	acquisition	—	Detail
Mar 5, 2004 Sealy	Health Care	acquisition	$ 1.50B	Detail
Apr 20, 2004 PanAmSat	Content	acquisition	—	Detail
Jun 30, 2004 Auto-Teile-Unger	Logistics	acquisition	—	Detail