[ASK 2021] Sculptor Capital: Non-Traditional Real Estate

Sculptor Capital Management is a leading alternative asset manager with capabilities across multi-strategy, credit and real estate. Sculptor has...

Sculptor Capital bets on non-traditional real estate

Non-traditional real estate assets such as cell towers, parking lots and marinas will likely provide significant investment opportunities to debt in...

Bain Capital to invest $360 mn in Korea’s top ERP developer

Bain Capital has agreed to invest around 400 billion won ($360 million) in South Korea’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software d...

SK E&S to sell 49% stake in city gas businesses; valued over $900 mn

South Korea-based energy company SK E&S Co. is pushing to liquidate its assets by carrying out a stake sale in its profitable city gas businesse...

SK E&S to sell 49% stake in city gas businesses; valued over $895 mn

South Korea-based energy company SK E&S Co. is pushing to liquidate its assets by carrying out a stake sale in its profitable city gas businesse...

Hyundai Glovis, Ulsan Port Authority to build logistics center in Ho Chi Minh City

South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co. and a local port authority will build a logistic center in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to use it as a di...

Silicon Valley-based PnP sets sights on Korean smart city ventures

Plug and Play (PnP), a Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, will team up with the city of Seoul to invest in South Korean venture firms with sm...

IMM PE, Affirma Capital shortlisted for T Map Mobility's $275 mn fundraising

Competition is heating up among domestic and foreign private equity firms hoping to invest in T Map Mobility Co., a mobility spin-off of South Korea...

JTBC raises $366 mn from Tencent, Praxis Capital

South Korean TV drama production firm JTBC Studios Co. will raise a total of 400 billion won ($366 million) by issuing convertible preferred shares ...

Korea’s venture capital firms poised to grow, no bubble seen in market

Growth in South Korea’s venture capital investments has been slow relative to the pace of the country’s economic growth, creating an opp...

Venture capital investments hit all-time high in S.Korea

Venture capital investments in South Korea are seeing a speedy recovery after facing a setback earlier this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. Over th...

Gangneung, South Korea’s coffee capital

Wanna come to Gangneung for a sip of tasty coffee?For some 20 years, Gangneung has been the city of coffee for many Koreans.Located on the other side ...

Busan, where the city and nature meet

I came to Korea in 2014 from a small country in Africa called Benin. I like to travel so I’ve visited Jeju, Seoul and Busan but this time I deci...

Busan, the city of cruise tourism

Busan is the place for cruise tourism in Korea. Busan Port International Cruise Terminal is always bustling with people going on overseas tours from B...

Hyundai Capital sells $2.5 bn dollar bond; Tongyang Life issues $300 mn perpetual bond

Hyundai Capital America, the US capital arm of Hyundai Motor Group, has issued $2.5 billion worth of global bonds, the largest amount for a local comp...

Bakery franchise Tous Les Jours draws Affirma Capital, chemical group as bidders

Bakery franchise Tous Les Jours, a division of CJ Foodville Corp., has drawn four preliminary bidders for its sale, including Singapore-based Affirma ...

Sale of Korea’s bank debentures hits all-time high as capital reserves shrink

Bond issuance by South Korean banks has risen to a record high as banks move to secure adequate capital to ride out any short-term liquidity disruptio...

Korean banks’ Q2 capital ratio drops for third straight quarter

The average capital adequacy ratio of South Korean banks declined in the April-June period for the third consecutive quarter, weighed by rising corpor...

NPS boosts private debt and venture capital investment in Q1

The National Pension Service (NPS) has beefed up investments in private debt and venture capital funds by adding Antares Capital Advisers and Insight ...

Bain Capital to invest $123 mn in South Korean online education startup

ST Unitas, known for English test and civil service exam preparation classes in South Korea, will receive around 150 billion won ($123 million) in inv...

Outbound real estate funds hit by first capital outflow in over 4 years

South Korea’s real estate funds for outbound investment saw their first net capital outflows in four and a half years in March, hit by delays in...

Korean LPs receive massive capital calls from global funds

Pension schemes and savings funds in South Korea are busy responding to a flood of capital calls simultaneously from foreign investment firms which ar...

[Dealmaker] Unison Capital shines in Korea’s niche sectors

Middle market-focused Unison Capital Inc. stood out in South Korea’s buyout market in 2019 with two lucrative exits and two startup acquisitions...

Shinhan backs AMP Capital’s $763 mn US data center acquisition

Shinhan Investment Corp. has provided 194.1 billion won ($162 million) in financing for AMP Capital’s 911 billion-won ($763 million) acquisition...

SK Group, Hillhouse Capital to form $850 mn fund to invest in Chinese start-ups

SK Group will set up a 1 trillion won ($850 million) fund with China’s private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group to invest in Chinese start-up...

AMP Capital’s $6.2 bn infrastructure fund raises $1.2 bn from Korea

Twenty-four South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union and the Public Offic...

Ardian, Veritas Capital, HPS Investment win POBA’s $150 mn PEF mandates

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has picked three global private equity firms as follows to commit $50 million to their blind-pool fund...

Unison Capital agrees to sell Gong Cha to US PEF for $300 mn

South Korea-based Unison Capital Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell milk tea brand Gong Cha to US private equity firm TA Associates for ar...

Unison Capital in final stages of talks to sell Gong Cha to US PEF

Unison Capital Inc. is in the final stages of negotiations to sell Taiwan-style milk tea brand Gong Cha to US private equity firm TA Associates for ar...

TIAA, Korean Teachers’ Credit to form 3rd JV with $510 mn capital

The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) and the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) have reached a preliminary agreement to ...