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KKR to rue the day it missed out on 139-year-old Australian asset

There is spilt milk everywhere; no one comes out of this $2.175 billion mess looking good.

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Global giant KKR & Co’s private equity team looks at heaps of Australian businesses, but has the capital, bandwidth and appetite to pick eyes out of all the ideas and invest only in the best.

Sometimes it gets it right – for example, carbon projects group GreenCollar was a home run 18 months ago.

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Anthony Macdonald is a Chanticleer columnist. He is a former Street Talk co-editor and has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies. Connect with Anthony on Twitter. Email Anthony at a.macdonald@afr.com
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