Retail investors test Celltrion, HLB shares as Korea’s GameStop

Celltrion Inc. and HLB Inc., two leading South Korean biopharmaceutical shares, shot up on Monday as the main bourse’s key index climbed back ...

Celltrion seeks to distribute COVID-19 treatment from mid-Jan

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. has completed second-phase clinical trials of its COVID-19 treatment and is seeking conditional approval of its distr...

Hahn & Co finances $700 mn Korean Air deal with about $400 mn debt

Hahn & Co., a South Korean private equity firm, has completed the payment for the 790 billion won ($722 million) purchase of Korean Air Lines' i...

Celltrion finalizes $278mn acquisition of Takeda's primary care assets

South Korea's biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. has completed the $278 million acquisition of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd's primary care a...

Celltrion says COVID-19 antibody kills virus within 5 days; shares surge

South Korea’s biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. can unveil an antibody treatment by around the end of the year that is able to kill the COVI...

Celltrion’s Q3 earnings beat market consensus to hit record high

South Korean biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc's operating profit topped market expectations by more than 20% in the third quarter, hitting a record high...

NongHyup looks to expand KIC co-investment beyond PE

South Korea’s National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF), or NongHyup Bank, is willing to expand its co-investment partnership with Kor...

[ASK2020] Why is co-investment an attractive tool for investors?

Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading alternative investment management firm providing innovative private markets solutions to sophisticated...

NPS forms co-investment partnership with Dutch pension

The National Pension Service has formed a strategic alliance with Dutch pension fund manager APG, through which they recently made co-investments in A...

Celltrion founder aims to raise $1 bn for healthcare startup from global funds

Seo Jung-jin, founder and chairman of South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Group, said on Oct. 6 that he is in talks with a number of global...

Celltrion group tipped to exceed 1 trillion won in profit; first among bio firms

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. and its affiliates are expected to post robust operating profits this year on the back of strong sales of Remsima a...

Celltrion rebuts JP Morgan’s heavy downgrade; shares rebound from sharp fall

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. on Sept. 10 rebutted J.P. Morgan’s massive downgrade of its target price for the biopharmaceutical company. T...

Auto parts maker Mando to co-develop COVID-19 ventilators with NASA

Mando Corp, a South Korean auto parts manufacturer, has been picked by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a ventilator co-...

Celltrion to co-develop pill-type autoimmune disease drug with UK startup

Biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. has agreed to develop a tablet-type treatment for autoimmune diseases jointly with the UK biotech startup Intract Phar...

Carlyle names co-CEO Kew Lee as sole CEO

Kewsong Lee, co-chief executive officer of the Carlyle Group, has been appointed as the US private equity group’s chief executive officer after ...

KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...

One Equity Partners fully exits from Celltrion with $1.8 bn in proceeds

One Equity Partners (OEP), a New York based private equity firm, unloaded its remaining shares in Celltrion Healthcare valued at approximately 31...

Mirae Asset co-leads $100 mn financing for China’s biotech startup

Mirae Asset Financial Group has invested $28 million in Shanghai-based biotechnology startup JW Therapeutics, about a quarter of $100 million financin...

IMM Investment buys stake in Texas Express Pipeline in $1 bn co-investment

South Korea’s IMM Investment Corp. has agreed to buy a 35% stake in Texas Express Pipeline, a joint venture for natural gas liquids transportati...

Macquarie seeks co-investors for over $2 bn Korean gas firm purchase

Macquarie’s investment unit may attract Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and other limited partners of its Asia infrastructure fund a...

POBA, PFA, Patrizia co-invest in Europe’s $1.3 bn logistics portfolio

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), Danish pension fund PFA and real estate investment firm Patrizia AG have co-invested 800 billion won ...

KTCU, SK Holdings to launch $1 bn fund for global co-investment

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint fund with South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. Ltd. to make cross-border investme...

[ASK 2019 SUMMIT] KIC to boost alternatives with co-ops' assets

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will raise the proportion of alternative investments with further diversified portfolios, while seeking to manage p...

POBA to up co-investment with CalSTRS, Texas pension fund

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will double co-investment with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to 880 billi...

NPS co-invests in Morgan Stanley fund’s US energy firm purchase

The National Pension Service (NPS) has poured around $100 million into a co-investment led by a Morgan Stanley fund to acquire units of a US shale gas...

[Interview] Carlyle sees huge potential in private credit: Co-CEO

The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, puts the expansion of credit business as a top priority as the private debt market...

NPS, KTCU pour $100 mn into healthcare co-investments

The National Pension Service (NPS) has put around 100 billion won ($93 million) into an equity stake in Dental Corporation, Canada’s largest net...

Hyundai co-invests in $275 mn property near Paris with French firm

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has completed the €235 million ($275 million) acquisition of a seven-story office building in the Paris metropolitan area...

StepStone collects $90 mn from Korean LPs for PDF, co-investment

New York-based StepStone Group has raised $90 million in commitments from three South Korean institutional investors since the start of this year, inc...

POBA, US pension fund to launch $400 mn JV to co-invest in real estate debt

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) and a California pension fund will inject $200 million each into a joint venture they are setting up t...