Brookfield completes $1.9 bn debt refinancing on IFC Seoul

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has borrowed an additional 475 billion won ($402 million) on International Finance Center in Seoul (IFC Seoul) in a 2...

Korean investors on track to pour nearly $1 bn into US, UK airports in 2019

South Korean institutional investors are on track to pour nearly $1 billion into US and UK airports in 2019, including the planned $51 million co-inve...

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...

Mirae Asset teams up with builder for $1.2 bn Asiana Airlines deal

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has attracted Hyundai Development Company (HDC) as a strategic partner to bid for a controlling stake in debt-ridden A...

Brookfield seeks refinance of $1.5 bn debt on IFC Seoul

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is seeking to refinance 1.8 trillion won ($1.5 billion) of debts it borrowed on the International Finance Center in S...

Hana Fin, CIC to set up $1 bn Korea-China cooperation fund

Hana Financial Group will set up a joint fund with China Investment Corp. (CIC) to invest in companies seeking to penetrate each other’s markets, with...

MBK Partners scraps $1.5 bn IPO of Korean retail REIT

MBK Partners has cancelled an initial public offering for a retail real estate investment trust (REIT) in South Korea due to a lack of demand, which...

Mirae Asset-Amundi group may buy France skyscraper for almost $1 bn

A consortium of Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and French asset manager Amundi was picked as the preferred buyer for Tour Majunga, a landmark building in...

Two French offices draw Korean bidders in $1.2 bn deals

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is nearing a 370 billion won ($330 million) deal to buy an office complex near Paris, while a South Korean ...

Saudi Aramco agrees to buy $1.6 bn stake in Hyundai Oilbank

Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest energy company, has signed an agreement to buy a stake of up to 19.9% in Hyundai Oilbank Co. Ltd. for 1.8 trillion w...

Affinity Equity-led group to exercise put option on $1.8 bn Kyobo Life shares

A consortium led by Affinity Equity Partners will push ahead with exercising their right to sell shares in South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co. Ltd....

KKR, NPS to invest $700 mn in $1.9 bn Seoul real estate project

Private equity firm KKR & Co and South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will make an equity investment of 800 billion won ($704 million) in ...

NPS tipped to buy Goldman Sachs’ new Europe HQ for over $1 bn

  The National Pension Service (NPS) has been recently picked as the preferred buyer of Goldman Sachs’ new European headquarters in London, ...

M&G Real Estate to buy $1 bn Seoul building as KKR backs down

M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. will sign an agreement soon to buy new twin office towers in Seoul for around 1.1 trillion won ($1...

KKR consortium poised to buy $1 bn Seoul office tower

A consortium of KKR & Co. and South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. on March 30 was selected as a preferred buyer of twin office towers in ...

Korea teachers fund allocates $1 bn for new global alternatives in 2018

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) plans to invest an additional 1.1 trillion won ($1 billion) in overseas alternative assets in 2018, out of th...

Blackstone, Korea Post among bidders for $1 bn new office tower in Seoul

Twin office towers under construction in Seoul, worth an estimated 1.1 trillion won ($1 billion), have attracted Blackstone Group, Korea Post and five...

KKR, POBA plan to sell commercial buildings in Korea for $1 bn

Private equity firm KKR & Co. and the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) have put two commercial buildings in South Korea up for sale sep...

Carlyle offers $1.7 bn pre-arranged financing to sell ADT Korea

The Carlyle Group has offered 1.9 trillion won ($1.7 billion) in pre-arranged debt financing to potential bidders of its wholly-owned ADT Korea, in a ...

Goldman and KKR mezzanine funds seen to raise up to $1.14 bn from Korea

Goldman Sachs’s new mezzanine fund, which aims to raise $10 billion, is expected to gather an aggregate $800 million to $1 billion from South Korean i...

South Korea seen to spend $1.4 tn on infrastructure by 2040: report

South Korea is expected to largely meet its infrastructure investment needs by 2040, spending $1.4 trillion on infrastructure by the year, according t...

Hanwha Asset to raise $1 bn from insurance arms to launch global funds

South Korea’s Hanwha Asset Management Co. Ltd. will launch three global funds for infrastructure, real estate and private equity investments, with $1 ...

NPS’ per employee AUM rises to $2.1 bn in 2016: report

Each investment management staff at South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) oversaw 2.4 trillion won ($2.1 billion) in assets in 2016 on average,...

MBK beats TPG to buy Korean industrial gas supplier for $1.7 bn

MBK Partners, Asia’s biggest private equity firm, has offered close to 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) to buy South Korea’s second-largest industrial ga...

[Interview] Hanwha Life targets senior secured debt; sees $1 bn net growth in 2017 alternative asset

Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., which manages 100 trillion won ($87 billion) of assets, will chase senior secured debts of commercial buildings in dev...

TIAA-CREF, Korean teachers’ savings fund to form $1 bn US real estate debt JV

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint venture with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America - Colle...

Blackstone in $1 bn mezzanine debt fundraising; Korean govt officials’ fund to invest $50 mn   

Blackstone Group has attracted New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS), US insurer MIRAS and a South Korean government employees’ fund to ...

MBK Partners closes $4.1 bn fund, above funding target; NPS opts out

Asia’s biggest private equity firm, MBK Partners, has raised $4.1 billion for its fourth fund, exceeding the target of $3.5 billion and more than ...

Korea Post put 1 trillion won into offshore property in past 3 yrs

Korea Post has invested a total of 998.6 billion won ($888 million) in overseas commercial buildings since 2013, the vast majority of which involved e...

Knowledge transfer was key factor of NPS’ $1 bn fund of fund GP selection – sources

The National Pension Service (NPS) put top priority on “knowledge transfer,” along with the performance of funds when it picked BlackRock Financial Ma...