Yewy Cheah, a young gun dealmaker in KKR’s Australian team, is understood to have left the alternatives giant to join a local family office.
Cheah was a director at KKR Credit, the firm’s special situations group that cuts cheques to Australian businesses and holds stakes in a bunch of non-bank lenders like Latitude Financial and Pepper Money.He joined KKR about a decade ago, from Goldman Sachs, and had risen up the ranks to point where he was the most senior in-country person at KKR Credit. Bankers described him as “humble”, “smart” and “easy to work with.
Cheah follows Ben Hall out the door at KKR; Hall was a managing director and head of KKR Credit in Australia, and sat on the boards of a bunch of portfolio companies including Pepper. Hall left the firm at the end of last year.co-edits Street Talk, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets. He has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies.
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