About This Fund
KKR European Fund VI is the sixth generation of KKR's flagship European private equity buyout fund, representing the firm's largest European private equity fund to date at the time of its close. The fund achieved its final close at $8.0 billion in April 2023, underscoring sustained institutional demand for large-cap European buyout exposure. KKR invested over $1.0 billion from its own balance sheet alongside employee commitments and portfolio company management, representing a GP commitment exceeding 12.5%—one of the highest GP commitment ratios in the European large-cap buyout segment.
The fund focuses on control-oriented buyout and growth equity investments in market-leading businesses across the developed economies of Western Europe. KKR targets companies with resilient earnings profiles, scalable platforms, and opportunities for operational improvement through the application of its proprietary value-creation framework. Sectors of historical focus include technology, healthcare, consumer, financial services, and industrials. The fund structure is a Luxembourg SCSp (Societe en Commandite Speciale), consistent with KKR's earlier European vehicles.
Building on the track record of its predecessors, KKR European Fund VI benefits from KKR's integrated pan-European sourcing network and deep local relationships developed over more than two decades of European private equity investing. The fund forms a cornerstone of KKR's European private equity platform, which managed a combined $28.3 billion in assets at the time of the final close.