Conf call redux: Turning Schenker into DSV
Managing expectations
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 ...
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