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Key financiers support Schulze bid for Best Buy

Best Buy Co. Inc. founder Richard Schulze has recruited four big-name private equity firms – KKR & Co., Leonard Green & Partners, TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management – to help bankroll his $8.8 billion plan to buy the company, the Star Tribune reports.
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Best Buy Co. Inc. founder Richard Schulze has recruited four big-name private equity firms – KKR & Co., Leonard Green & Partners, TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management – to help bankroll his $8.8 billion plan to buy the company, the Star Tribune reports.

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