Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is leading a buy-out group and has agreed to purchase Del Monte Foods for nineteen dollars per share, in an agreement that has valued the American food and pet products firm at about five billion dollars, including its debt.

Reports and sources have speculated that US private equity companies Kravis Roberts & Co. and Bain Capital are busy prepping themselves for Initial Public Offering of Toys "r" US and NXP SemiConductors.

The Dutch semiconductor firm NXP, which was spun off from Philips Electronics in 2006, is all set with its plans to raise over $1 Billion through an IPO.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, the private-equity firm managed by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, has reportedly filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, bringing it dearer to concluding a two-year attempt to go public in the U. S.

The private equity firm is revealed to possess $52.2 billion in assets under management at the end of 2009.

Thursday, a long awaited deal was concluded by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, under which it bought its Amsterdam-quoted fund, thus becoming a Euronext- listed company along with completing the first step towards an expected move to the New York Stock Exchange.

The US private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) may scrap its plans to list in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with the company considering the option to buy its Amsterdam-listed fund - thereby separating it from the somewhat pressurizing plan of having to list at a difficult time to go public.

Partnering to take advantage of a foreseeable increase in initial public offerings (IPOs), the New York-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has decided to sell shares of its private-equity companies through the Boston-based mutual fund bigwig Fidelity Investments.