Samsung-Hanwha consortium tipped to invest $300 mn in Paris building

A consortium of Samsung Securities Co. Ltd. and Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is likely to invest 340 billion won ($299 million) in a Pa...

Samsung Life sells Commerzbank’s London headquarters for $590 mn

Samsung Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has completed the sale of Commerzbank AG’s London headquarters to Singapore’s property investment firm Wing Tai Holdin...

KB Financial units invest $103 mn in Spain hotel portfolio-backed debt

KB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and other units of South Korea’s top banking group KB Financial Group co-invested 90 million euros ($103 million) in a se...

Hana Financial buys US REIT’s preferred stocks for $125 mn

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has bought new preferred shares issued by a US real estate investment trust company for $125 million, ahead of the ...

NH Investment-backed REIT likely to buy Samsung Town building

A South Korean real estate investment trust firm sponsored by NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. was picked as a preferred buyer of Samsung C&...

Samsung Sec-led group to buy $760 mn stake in Dunkirk LNG terminal

A consortium of three South Korean brokerage companies led by Samsung Securities Co. Ltd. will pay around 850 billion won ($758 million) for a 39.24% ...

HNA sells US property to Samsung, tapping Korean buyers for US asset: report

HNA Group has sold a Minneapolis office tower to Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. for $320 million and is now tapping South Korean institutional ...

Blackstone, Temasek’s Mapletree in $700 mn auction for Samsung Town office

The Blackstone Group and Temasek-backed Mapletree Investments are competing with South Korean asset managers and brokerage firms in the auction for Sa...

Blackstone, Carlyle, TPG raise over $100 mn from network-hungry Korean firms

Three global private equity firms – Blackstone, Carlyle and TPG – have gathered an aggregate $113 million in commitments from South Korean institution...

Samsung, Kyobo Life to buy $129 mn debt of US toll road from IFM Investors

Two of South Korea’s top three life insurers – Samsung and Kyobo – will buy $129 million debt backed by revenues of the Indiana Toll Road Concession C...

Samsung Sec debuts in US solar farm debt deal with $67 mn underwriting

Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., a top South Korean brokerage company, has underwritten $66.7 million in senior debt to fund a solar power plant acquisiti...

Hana Financial to buy Japanese retail property for individual resale

Hana Financial Group, the parent company of KEB Hana Bank, will acquire a shopping center building and its surrounding land in a small Japanese city...

Hana Financial joins $269 mn debt financing of two US solar power plants

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has underwritten $40 million of secured debt, part of $269 million debt financing to fund asset manager Capital Dyn...

Samsung Group units in forming $443 mn fund to buy OECD building in Paris

An investment firm of South Korea’s Samsung Life Insurance Co. Ltd is forming a blind-pool real estate fund worth around 500 billion won ($443 milli...

Hana Financial to arrange $445 mn financing of US gas power plant

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. is tapping South Korean insurers and savings funds to arrange a 500 billion won ($445 million) financing of a new n...

Korean regulator moves to scrutinize savings funds’ financial health

South Korea’s savings funds may come under direct supervision of the country’s top financial watchdog as the Financial Services Commission (FSC) is se...

NongHyup Financial raising $264 mn infrastructure blind fund: report

NongHyup Financial Group Inc., a holding company of South Korea’s national agricultural cooperative, is raising a 300 billion won ($264 million) blind...

Samsung Life taps Europe, Chinese investors to sell London building

Samsung Life Insurance Co. Ltd. is sounding out potential buyers in Europe and China for the London headquarters building of Commerzbank AG, 30 Gresha...

Korean military fund names equity head as financial division CIO

The Military Mutual Aid Association’s (MMAA) former equity head Jae Dong Kim was installed this month as its first chief investment officer chosen fro...

Hana Financial underwrites $75 mn senior debt for US solar power plant

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has underwritten $75 million senior debts sold by a Swiss private asset manager to fund a US solar power plant acqu...

Hana Financial to underwrite $50 mn debt in aircraft fund for Qatar Airways

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. will acquire mezzanine debts of $50 million in an aircraft fund set up to buy a Boeing 777-300ER which Qatar Airway...

Korean institutions partake in US fund’s buyout deal as financial investors: report

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and a federation of credit cooperative in South Korea have extended about 50 billion won ($44 million) of loan...

Samsung property fund invests $100 mn in mezzanine debt of US building

A $270 million real estate fund of Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested $100 million in mezzanine debts backed by a prime office build...

Samsung Asset to launch $500 mn global infrastructure debt fund with IFM: report

Samsung Asset Management Co. Ltd. will launch a $500 million blind-pool fund investing in infrastructure-backed debt in developed countries, and joint...

Samsung’s property fund reaps $84 mn profit from sale of London office building

A real estate fund of South Korea’s Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. has secured 100 billion won ($84 million) in capital gains from the sale of ...

Court Dismisses Arrest Warrant for Samsung's Lee

The court has dismissed the request by the prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant to Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong. This will be a bi...

Chronology: Korea’s sprawling political scandal hits NPS over Samsung units’ merger

The following are key events in relation to Samsung C&T Corporation’s takeover of affiliate Cheil Industries Inc. in 2015, and prosecutors’ invest...

Q&A: NPS embroiled in Korea’s political scandal over Samsung units’ merger

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme with $460 billion in assets under management, is engulfed in on...

[Interview] Korea police fund eyes EM debt; keen on networks with foreign funds: CIO

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), a $2 billion savings fund, is interested in sovereign debt of emerging economies, and will put eff...

Samsung’s investment firm to set up $270 mn US property mezzanine fund

A property investment arm of the Samsung Group will raise 300 billion won ($270 million) from South Korean insurance companies and pension funds in a ...