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  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    KKR & Co LP
    KKR co-founders each receive $100mn as private equity pay booms

    Henry Kravis and George Roberts stepped down as co-chiefs of buyout group last year

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Are private equity firms the new conglomerates? Premium content

    Plus, THG tries to win back shareholder confidence and a group of America’s most elite universities get $40bn richer

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    Due Diligence
    What’s KKR without the K and the R? Premium content

    Plus, a little-known private equity group takes on Sanjeev Gupta, and the lavish lifestyle of Evergrande’s boss comes under scrutiny

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    KKR & Co LP
    Henry Kravis and George Roberts hand over transformed KKR

    Buyout firm has become diversified institution — almost like conglomerates the barbarians once broke up

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    LexKKR & Co LP
    KKR founders: a monument built in permanent capital Premium content

    Kravis and Roberts exploited a dazzling insight at the end of their careers as well as the beginning

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    KKR & Co LP
    KKR: memories from Barbarians at the Gate

    On Henry Kravis’s intimidating art collection.

  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2019
    Due Diligence
    The K and the R of KKR sit down with the FT Premium content

    Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

  • Friday, 8 December, 2017
    InterviewFTfm
    Private equity faces a dilemma: to buy or to sell

    KKR’s European head concerned about how rising interest rates will affect the industry

  • Friday, 27 October, 2017
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Private equity: Twilight for the buyout barbarians

    The founding partners of some of the biggest buyout firms are preparing to hand control to a new generation who will face a more forbidding landscape

  • Monday, 17 July, 2017
    News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
    KKR’s succession plan puts pressure on rivals to follow suit

    Many founders of the big listed private equity groups show no signs of stepping aside

  • Monday, 17 July, 2017
    Property sector
    KKR positions successors to Henry Kravis and George Roberts

    Group breaks with private equity norm by announcing heirs presumptive to founders

  • Tuesday, 26 July, 2016
    Private equity
    KKR buoyed by bull market
  • Monday, 25 April, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    KKR swings to $553m quarterly loss

    Buyout group hit by large fall in value of First Data investment

  • Friday, 7 August, 2015
    ObituaryMergers & Acquisitions
    Jerome Kohlberg, senior founder of KKR, 1925-2015

    ‘First K’ who defied hardball at takeover triumvirate

  • Monday, 24 February, 2014
    Currencies
    KKR co-chiefs reap $160m apiece in 2013

    Take-home totals up more than 17%

  • Friday, 26 July, 2013
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    KKR suffers 75% plunge in quarterly profits
  • Thursday, 28 February, 2013
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Finance: An inequitable divide

    US and European private equity groups have enjoyed contrasting fortunes

  • Sunday, 11 November, 2012
    Fund management
    KKR opens funds aimed at private investors
  • Friday, 26 October, 2012
    US & Canadian companies
    KKR falls short on N America fundraising
  • Thursday, 11 October, 2012
    US & Canadian companies
    Court releases emails in buyout ‘club’ suit
  • Friday, 27 July, 2012
    US & Canadian companies
    KKR bucks trend in weak market
  • Monday, 18 June, 2012
    US & Canadian companies
    KKR agrees to buy Prisma Capital
  • Tuesday, 27 March, 2012
    US & Canadian companies
    John Mack joins KKR as adviser

    Wall Street veteran builds portfolio

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2012
    FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack
    KKR chiefs take home $94m each
  • Monday, 27 February, 2012
    IPOs
    KKR chiefs take home $94m each
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