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Nov. 28, 2006

Short Week Turns Out to Be Long on Deals, Setting Another Record

COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - Last week, the thinkable happened: The record for the largest leveraged buyout in history fell - again.

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By Rick Kennedy
     
      Last week, the thinkable happened: The record for the largest leveraged buyout in history fell - again.
      The 17-year reign of the legendary $31.3 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco by private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ended in July with the $33 billion acquisition of hospital chain HCA by a group including KKR it...

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