KKR Completes Purchase Of Simon & Schuster (mediapost.com)
Investment firm KKR has completed its $1.62.billion acquisition of publisher Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global.
KKR is supporting Simon & Schuster’s employee ownership program. KKR has awarded billions of dollars of total equity value to over 60,000 non-senior management employees since 2011.
more at: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/390645/kkr-completes-purchase-of-simon-schuster.html
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