Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

…was merged into investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Nabisco and Reynolds became independent with the 1999 spin-off of R.J. Reynolds shares. See Nabisco; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.

…York City-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR and Co. L.P.). Not only did KKR pioneer the LBO approach to buyouts in the late 1970s, but the most famous LBO in American history was the takeover of RJR Nabisco by KKR in 1988, for the record amount…