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By Business Wire KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which KKR will acquire Yayoi Co., Ltd. (“Yayoi” or the “Company”), a software developer, distributor, and support service provider for small- and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) in Japan from ORIX Corporation (“ORIX”), a leading integrated financial services group. Yayoi is the largest financial and accounting software provider for SMEs and sole proprietors in Japan, best known for its namesake accounting and tax filing software, widely used by Japanese SMEs. According to MM Re…