Corporate Finance
Vintage Private Equity – KKR & Alliance Boots: A Buyout Through the Crisis
KKR’s leveraged buyout of Alliance Boots plc (then a FTSE 100 company) in 2007 was Europe’s largest private equity buyout at the time. Alongside Stefano Pessina, the former CEO of Alliance UniChem and executive deputy chairman of Alliance Boots, KKR bought Alliance Boots for £11.39 per share