April Group News

KKR & Co.’s buyout of a French insurance broker is offering a window into the diminishing power of Wall Street’s vaunted leveraged finance machine. The buyout firm agreed to fund on its own the totality of the €2.3 billion ($2.4 …

French insurance broker April Group said private equity firm KKR & Co. has become its new majority shareholder, according to a statement posted on its website. The statement, which confirmed a Bloomberg News report, didn’t disclose deal terms. KKR is …