Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, the private-equity firm managed by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, has reportedly filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, bringing it dearer to concluding a two-year attempt to go public in the U. S.

The private equity firm is revealed to possess $52.2 billion in assets under management at the end of 2009.

Thursday, a long awaited deal was concluded by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, under which it bought its Amsterdam-quoted fund, thus becoming a Euronext- listed company along with completing the first step towards an expected move to the New York Stock Exchange.

The US private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) may scrap its plans to list in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with the company considering the option to buy its Amsterdam-listed fund - thereby separating it from the somewhat pressurizing plan of having to list at a difficult time to go public.

Partnering to take advantage of a foreseeable increase in initial public offerings (IPOs), the New York-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has decided to sell shares of its private-equity companies through the Boston-based mutual fund bigwig Fidelity Investments.