KKR's $1.4 billion acquisition of Arctos Partners traces back more than a decade to a relationship that began long before Arctos even existed. "We have known Ian Charles, the founder, for a long time: a decade plus," Nuttall said at Bloomberg's Invest conference on Wednesday as he got into the backstory of the deal announced last month. In 2016, KKR was looking for a secondaries specialist to help free up capital and worked with Charles, who at the time worked at Landmark Partners, a major