KKR has completed numerous landmark acquisitions, including the famous 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was the largest acquisition in history at the time. Furthermore, its 2007 acquisition of TXU Energy remains the largest acquisition to date. Since 1977, KKR has invested in over 160 companies, guaranteeing at least one investment every year except 1982 and 1990.
Category: Private Equity
How Carlyle makes money?
As of the end of Q1 2025, The Carlyle Group had $453 billion in assets under management, a 6% increase year-over-year.
“How to Invest”
“How to Invest” was written by David. Rubinstein interviewed 24 famous investors. These 24 famous investors came from different investment fields. They are all top-notch business founders or investors in their respective fields and are very representative. I hope readers can gain inspiration for getting rich from the heartfelt advice given to other investors by 24 famous investors.
A brief discussion on partnership
In addition to venture capital firms, accounting firms, law firms, consulting firms, private equity funds, investment banks, and wealth asset managers; these types of large companies are usually partnerships──unless they are companies To go public, it will be reorganized into a limited company.
How Does Private Equity Giant Blackstone Make Money?
Schwarzman and his mentor Peter Peterson left Lehman Brothers to co-found Blackstone with $400,000
Big pharma spin-offs, and advantages to invest them
The following are the three big pharma spin-offs I know of in the past ten years. These three pharmaceutical companies are all world-renowned super pharmaceutical companies
Twitter acquisition is a modern version of ‘Barbarians at the Door’
Twitter acquisition is a modern-day version of ‘Barbarians at the Door’, First of all, if you haven’t read “Barbarians at the Gate”, which is regarded as the most classic Wall Street M&A and business war related books or movies in history, please find time to read it.
Why most mergers and acquisitions end in failure?
Why most mergers and acquisitions end in failure? From a purely positive or optimistic perspective, companies must conduct mergers and acquisitions in order to achieve the following goals:
Problems with Cigar Butt Investment
Cigar Butt Investment. Most investors who have a little research on Buffett may know that Buffett used his own investment in the early stage of his investment career, especially during the Warren Buffett partnership that had not yet established Berkshire (ticker:s: BRK.A and BRK.B), is his mentor Graham’s “Cigar Butt Investment Method” means:
TikTok, the rival of all social networks
Let’s talk about TikTok, In September, TikTok quietly announced the milestone of reaching billions of monthly active users (aka MAU).