We help make history. A pioneer in management buyouts, KKR continues to set standards for the industry.

Our Landmark Achievements

We have a proven ability to innovate. Buyout techniques are now being applied to new industries, and new geographies. In the corporate finance area, our innovations have provided capital to people with great ideas for growing businesses. Since 1976, we have grown from a relatively small domestic buyout firm to an integrated alternative asset manager with global capabilities and reach.

Our landmark achievements include:

The first billion-dollar buyout transaction:
  • Wometco Enterprises

1984

  

Several of the largest global buyout transactions ever completed:
  • Energy Future Holdings
  • HCA
  • RJR Nabisco
  • First Data
  • TDC A/S
  • Alliance Boots
  • Capmark
  • SunGard
  • Biomet
  • Beatrice

2007
2006
1989
2007
2006
2007
2006
2005
2007
1986

$48.4B
$33.0B
$31.4B
$29.5B
€12.4B
£12.4B
$16.8B
$12.0B
$11.6B
$8.7B

The largest buyout in U.S. history:
  • Energy Future Holdings Corp.(formerly TXU Corp.)

2007

$48.4B

The first buyout of a public company by tender offer:
  • Malone & Hyde

1984

$350M

The largest leveraged buyout in Europe:
  • Alliance Boots

2007

£12.4B

The two largest leveraged buyouts in the Netherlands:
  • NXP
  • Maxeda [fka Vendex KBB]

2006
2004

€9.0B
€2.5B

The largest leveraged buyout in Singapore:
  • Avago Technologies, Inc.

2005

$2.8B

The largest leveraged buyout in Denmark:
  • TDC A/S

2006

€12.4B

The largest leveraged buyout in India:
  • Aricent

2006

$0.9B

The two largest leveraged buyouts in France:
  • Legrand
  • PagesJaunes Groupe

2002
2006

€4.6B
€5.6B

Three of the largest Canadian leveraged buyouts:
  • Shoppers Drug Mart
  • Masonite
  • Yellow Pages Group

2000
2005
2002

C$2.7B
C$3.1B
C$3.1B

The development of the leveraged build-up model:
  • PRIMEDIA
  • KSL

1989
1993