Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (NYSE:KKR) signed an agreement to acquire 90% stake in Alliance Tire Group from Warburg Pincus LLC and Yogesh Mahansaria on April 12, 2013. The transaction will be funded from KKR's investment funds and will be supported by a financing tranche led by Crescent Mezzanine with additional participation by the Ivy High Income Fund. Yogesh Mahansaria, Founder of Alliance Tire Group, will continue to maintain an ownership stake in Alliance Tire Group. The deal is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory and third-party consents.

Credit Suisse acted as financial advisor for Alliance Tire Group and Nine Rivers Capital acted as financial advisor for Yogesh Mahansaria. Barclays Bank PLC and JP Morgan acted as financial advisors for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Vaishnavi Ramakrishnan and Mihir Mukherjee of Edelman India and Nicholas Worley of Hill+Knowlton Strategies Asia acted as public relation advisors for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Malini Roy of Citigate Dewe Rogerson acted as public relation advisor for Alliance Tire Group. Katie Sudol, Ian Ho, Stuart Orsak, Justin Wong, William Allen, Sinead O'Shea, Jackie Kahng, Xiaohui Lin, Andrea Wahlquist, Linda Barrett, Katharine Moir, Daniel Foster, David Vann, Étienne Renaudeau, Kenneth Ehrhard, Timothy Mulvihill, Marcela Robledo, Sharo Atmeh of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP acted as legal advisors to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Darshika Kothari, Divya Mundra, Nohid Nooreyezdan, Samir Gandhi, Rahul Rai, Bidisha Das, and Abe Abraham of AZB & Partners acted as legal advisors for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

Vandana Shroff and Allice George of Amarchand Mangaldas and Kirtee Kapoor, Simon Witty, Winnie Ling, John D. Paton, Alon Gurfinkel, Stephen M. Pepper, Rebecca Tracy Rotem, John T. Wright, Jessica Lutrin, and Hayden S. Baker of Davis Polk acted as legal advisor for Warburg Pincus and Alliance. Gaby Smeenk, Lennart Crain, Aleksander Ivarsson, Daniël van Gerven, Henk van Ravenhorst, Constantijn Voogt, Nick van Dijk, Angela van Breda, Paula Ravensbergen, Tijmen Klein Bronsvoort, Robert Steeg, Ferdinand Hengst and Angelique Groen-Boon of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V. acted as legal advisors to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Ernst & Young acted as financial and tax advisor to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Sjoerd Buijn of Stibbe acted as legal advisor to Warburg and Alliance. Credit Suisse (USA), Inc. acted as financial advisor for Alliance Tire Group.