According to an informed source the US group, which has nearly £30bn in private equity under management, has been interested in making a bid for the publishing company for at least five years.
The insider, who was part of the senior management team at EMI Music before it was acquired by Terra Firma in 2007, said KKR could provide one of the "cleanest solutions" because it could sidestep competition objections from the regulators in the US and at the European ...
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