Jerome Kohlberg Jr: The world’s greatest investors

Jerome Kohlberg Jr started out focusing on “bootstrap” deals, whereby he’d set up a shell company to buy a firm from a retiring owner.

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Jerome Kohlberg Jr later co-founded KKR
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Kohlberg was born in New Rochelle, New York, and graduated with a law degree from Columbia. He joined Bear Stearns in 1955. After two decades at Bear Stearns, he founded Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts (KKR) in 1976 with Henry Kravis and George Roberts. He would resign in 1987 to form Kohlberg & Co, before retiring in 1995. He died in July 2015.

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Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

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