Barbarians at the Gate
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1989 book about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a
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Henry Kravis
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Henry Roberts Kravis is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the private equity and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Barbarians at the Gate
…called Barbarians at the Gate. The book centers on F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco, who planned to buy out the rest of the Nabisco shareholders. Henry Kravis and his cousin George R. Roberts, opposed to Johnson's bid for the company, were among the pioneers of the leveraged buyout (LBO). Kravis claimed that…
Kravis in 2016