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Suit over KKR premerger filings affirms US DOJ focus on private equity roll-ups

By Flavia Fortes ( January 14, 2025, 20:53 GMT | Comment) -- The US Department of Justice today sued private equity firm KKR and more than a dozen of its investment advisors and funds for failing to make complete and accurate premerger filings in at least 16 separate transactions, evading antitrust scrutiny. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, confirms the agency's commitment to going after private equity firms’ strategy for roll-up acquisitions. The US Department of Justice sued private equity firm KKR and over a dozen of its investment advisors and funds today for failing to make complete and accurate premerger filings in at least 16 separate transactions, evading antitrust scrutiny....

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