KKR Hires From Barclays, UBS for Equity Capital Markets Push

KKR & Co. hired a pair of bankers from Barclays Plc and UBS Group AG as part of an effort to further expand its equity capital markets platform, which raised $20 billion in equity proceeds last year.

Andrew Kolmar, most recently a Barclays managing director, and Hannah Malter, who resigned last month as UBS’s head of equity capital markets syndicate in the Asia-Pacific region and a managing director, will join the New York-based alternative-asset manager this summer.

“The public markets are critical to us and having equity capital markets capabilities in-house enables us to be especially thoughtful in ...