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Private equity is not dead, but no mega deals coming soon

Leveraged buyout guru Henry Kravis, cofounder of the legendary private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, tells Forbes that he believes private equity will come back from the hit it has taken from the financial crisis.

"It's not dead at all, but it will take different forms," he said.

Kravis compares the current economic environment to 1979, when, the U.S. economy was struggling, inflation was at 13%, unemployment at 11%, and zero financing was available. But then, of course, followed the explosion of private equity in the 1980s and 1990s.

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