KKR's timing stokes questions

The New York Times weighs in with a lengthy piece on Kohlberg's Kravis Roberts decision to go public via a reverse merger with its Dutch financial affiliate. It notes that Henry Kravis has been thinking about how to go public for about five years. It offers an interesting account of how the decisions was made. In the end, it seem like a decision borne of a problem: what to do with KKR Financial, which was really tanking in Amsterdam. That, and the fact that the Blackstone Group had already gone public, and thus acquired a valuable currency to make deals and lure talent. KKR just might want to make some definitive moves to make the firm a more diversified company. We'll see if the timing is right.  

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