Investment firm KKR has completed its $1.62.billion acquisition of publisher Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global.
KKR is supporting Simon & Schuster’s employee ownership program. KKR has awarded billions of dollars of total equity value to over 60,000 non-senior management employees since 2011.
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