REIK & CO.

REIK & CO.

REIK & CO. was founded in 1996 by Henry R. Kravis, the co-founder of KKR, to manage his personal and family investment activities separate from the private equity giant. The entity reflects the common architecture among financial sponsors who build parallel family vehicles to avoid conflicts and maintain liquidity independence from their primary firms. The office operates from New York, where Kravis has centered his career since the earliest days of the buyout industry. The firm invests across public equities, fixed income, and private alternative assets, mirroring the multi-asset approach typical of large single-family pools but distinguished by Kravis's deep sourcing network built over four decades at KKR. Confirmed public equity holdings have included names like Apple and Microsoft, while the private portfolio historically moves through direct co-investments and select fund commitments, though specific positions remain closely held. Geographic exposure leans heavily toward North America, consistent with Kravis's deal-making footprint. The office maintains a deliberately small, private structure — headcount is not disclosed — with no known additional satellite locations. Kravis's philanthropic activities operate through separate channels, primarily the Kravis family foundation, rather than through REIK & CO. directly. In recent years, Kravis has stepped back from day-to-day KKR management, a transition that likely concentrates more attention on the family office portfolio, although the firm discloses no operational milestones. REIK & CO.'s structural differentiator is its origin: it is the parallel family vehicle of one of the three architects of the modern leveraged buyout, operating outside the regulatory and investor-reporting framework of a public alternative asset manager. That separation allows for permanent capital deployment without fund-life constraints — a structural advantage that institutional allocators rarely access directly but that shapes the firm's patient, concentrated investment posture.