Private Equity

KKR’s European PE bosses on deals, debt and dot com disasters

KKR's European co-heads of PE Philipp Freise and Mattia Caprioli say the music has stopped. But the duo want to keep on dancing

When cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed late last year, it wasn’t just retail investors who were left nursing heavy losses.

Institutions including private equity giant Thoma Bravo and venture capital firm Sequoia had invested millions of dollars in Sam Bankman Fried’s business before it declared bankruptcy.

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