News / PE behemoth KKR makes $5bn-plus offer for Hitachi Transport System

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Private equity behemoth Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has announced it is buying out Japan’s Hitachi Transport System (HTS), which, if successful, we believe will be the largest-ever private equity transaction in transport and logistics executed by a single financial sponsor.

Just a week after Loadstar Premium casually investigated the possibility of a take-private deal in logistics, KKR has entered into an agreement with Hitachi, the controlling shareholder of HTS, under “which, following a share consolidation after the tender offer, HTS will acquire ...