biography
| name: |
Kohlberg, Jerome, Jr
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1925– )
|
| biography:
| Lawyer and financier, born in New York City, New York, USA. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania (1946) and took a law degree from Columbia University in 1950. He worked as an investment banker for Bear Stearns & Co, before becoming a partner in Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co (1976–87), known as ‘the kings of the leveraged buyout’. Their operations helped fuel the ‘go-go’ atmosphere of American business that became synonymous with the Reagan years. He resigned in 1987 to establish an independent firm, Kohlberg & Co. |
|
|
