Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.’s Tokyo-based managing director, Naohiko Kitsuta, has left the buy-out firm after less than two years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The news follows the departure of the former chief executive of KKR’s Japanese division, Taketo Yamakawa, who left a year after joining in 2006.
Despite the firm’s executives leaving, KKR still reportedly has around $3 billion for deals in the region.
The co-head of Permira’s Tokyo office, which was opened in 2005, recently left the firm.
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