Alliance Boots
Apr 25 2007, Balendu

A private equity firm and an Italian billionaire have finally clinched the takeover battle for Britain’s largest drugstore chain, Alliance Boots, marking Europe’s biggest private equity buyout. The equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company,..

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