Dec 11 (Reuters) - David Bonderman, the co-founder of the $239 billion alternative asset

management giant TPG, has died at the age of 82, the company said on Wednesday.

Bonderman and Jim Coulter, former colleagues at the Bass Family Office, created TPG in 1992

and opened the firm's first offices in San Francisco.

He was born in Los Angeles in 1942 and was also the owner of the National Hockey League's

32nd expansion franchise, the Seattle Kraken.

He won several accolades, including the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of

Achievement and the Woodrow Wilson Award of Corporate Citizenship.