Buyout giant KKR eyeing a couple of SGX companies: S-EA chief

Singapore

BUYOUT giant KKR is looking at a couple of companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), said Ashish Shastry, the private equity firm's top guy in South-east Asia.

These could be typically family-owned, third-generation, mid-cap companies in the manufacturing or industrials space, valued from a few hundreds of millions to S$1.5 billion, he said.