KIC to boost startup investment with new San Francisco office

KIC to boost startup investment with new San Francisco office

Korea Investment Corporation will open a San Francisco office within the year to improve its deal sourcing capability for technology startups and othe...

NH, Shinhan fund Helsinki office complex purchase with $210 mn equity

NH, Shinhan fund Helsinki office complex purchase with $210 mn equity

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Shinhan Investment Corp. have underwritten about 250 billion won ($210 million) in equity to fund the 480 ...

NPS joins in billion-dollar LNG midstream deals of Blackstone, KKR

NPS joins in billion-dollar LNG midstream deals of Blackstone, KKR

The National Pension Service (NPS) made an investment of the trillion-won ($860 million) level in two LNG midstream assets in North America last month...

Eugene Investment acquires Poland office building for $61 mn

Eugene Investment acquires Poland office building for $61 mn

Eugene Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has entered the European real estate market with the purchase of an office building in Warsaw, Poland for ...

Goldman, GIC, Sequoia to exit from Korean food delivery app in $4 bn deal

Goldman, GIC, Sequoia to exit from Korean food delivery app in $4 bn deal

Goldman Sachs, Singapore’s GIC and Sequoia Capital are among the financial investors set to secure handsome returns from a combined 506 billion ...

Hana Fin buys Germany’s office complex from Blackstone for $1.1 bn

Hana Fin buys Germany’s office complex from Blackstone for $1.1 bn

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. closed on the 1.3 trillion won ($1.1 billion) purchase of Germany’s largest office complex in Frankfurt from ...

Prudential seeks to sell Korean insurance arm in estimated $2 bn deal

Prudential seeks to sell Korean insurance arm in estimated $2 bn deal

Prudential Financial Inc. has put its South Korean life insurance arm on the market, as the US insurance giant is seeking to shed part of overseas ass...

Mirae Asset consortium likely to clinch $2.1 bn Asiana Airlines deal

A consortium of Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Development Company (HDC) is set to be announced as a preferred buyer of a controlling stake...

Korean firms in all-out effort to sell down Paris office buildings

Korean firms in all-out effort to sell down Paris office buildings

South Korean brokerage firms are stepping up efforts to sell down their remaining equity investments of around 600 billion won ($518 million) in the P...

Japan, Australia may generate attractive property deals: Carlyle

Japan, Australia may generate attractive property deals: Carlyle

Financial restructuring by Japanese companies and rising population density in Australia look set to create attractive investment opportunities for co...

Brookfield completes $1.9 bn debt refinancing on IFC Seoul

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...

Samsung Sec to cooperate with Canada pension fund for infrastructure deals

Samsung Sec to cooperate with Canada pension fund for infrastructure deals

Samsung Securities Co. Ltd. has signed a preliminary agreement with Canadian pension scheme La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to cooper...

US gas stations deal secures $130 mn debt from Korea: report

US gas stations deal secures $130 mn debt from Korea: report

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. committed $130 million to a subordinated debt on a portfolio of 190 gas stations in the US Midwest last wee...

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

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...

PAG likely to buy Hyatt hotel in Seoul and nearby land for $400 mn

PAG likely to buy Hyatt hotel in Seoul and nearby land for $400 mn

Hong Kong-based investment firm PAG has been named a preferred buyer of Grand Hyatt Seoul and its nearby residential land which are valued at abou...

Kiwoom Asset sets up $56 mn retail funds to buy Amsterdam office

Kiwoom Asset sets up $56 mn retail funds to buy Amsterdam office

Kiwoom Asset Management Co. Ltd. plans to raise 50.7 million euros ($56.2 million) from individual investors in South Korea in August to buy an of...

Korea, China banks offer $120 mn loan on Chile LNG terminal stake deal

Korea, China banks offer $120 mn loan on Chile LNG terminal stake deal

The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and two Chinese banks have extended a syndicated loan of $120 million to fund a stake purchase in a liquefied natur...

CVC to buy Korea’s No.2 hotel booking app in $300 mn deal

CVC to buy Korea’s No.2 hotel booking app in $300 mn deal

CVC Capital Partners is set to buy a controlling stake in South Korea’s No. 2 accommodation booking app operator and in separate talks with minority s...

Brookfield seeks refinance of $1.5 bn debt on IFC Seoul

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...

JR AMC to buy Hungary office building for $47 mn

JR AMC to buy Hungary office building for $47 mn

JR AMC Co. Ltd., a real estate investment trust in South Korea, has agreed to buy a pre-completed office building in Budapest for 42.3 million euros (...

Hana Fin acquires Prague office building for $147 mn

Hana Fin acquires Prague office building for $147 mn

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. made a 130-million-euro ($147 million) acquisition in Prague’s office property market in June, just a few months af...

Mirae Asset, NH Investment join $134 mn Slovakia office deal

Mirae Asset, NH Investment join $134 mn Slovakia office deal

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have participated in a 120-million-euro ($134 million) acquisition of an Amazo...

Kiwoom Sec in $236 mn refinancing deal on Spain solar plants

Kiwoom Sec in $236 mn refinancing deal on Spain solar plants

Kiwoom Securities Co. Ltd. and a South Korean insurance firm have underwritten 140 billion won ($118 million) in a debt on nine solar power plants in ...

KIC picks Teachers’ Pension CIO as new chief investment officer

KIC picks Teachers’ Pension CIO as new chief investment officer

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has chosen Dae-yang Park, chief investment officer of the country’s Teachers’ Pension, as new CIO among a dozen app...

Samsung Sec to buy French office complex for $778 mn

Samsung Sec to buy French office complex for $778 mn

Samsung Securities Co. Ltd. is set to acquire an office building west of Paris for 691 million euros ($778 million), following a string of recent prop...

NH-Hana consortium buys $294 mn Amsterdam office for renovation

NH-Hana consortium buys $294 mn Amsterdam office for renovation

A consortium of NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has acquired an office building in Amsterdam for 350 bi...

KTB Investment seals $326 mn acquisition of Vienna office building

KTB Investment seals $326 mn acquisition of Vienna office building

KTB Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has recently completed the acquisition of an office building in Vienna used as the Austrian headquarters of T...

Daishin Asset unveils $68 mn public fund for Tokyo office purchase

Daishin Asset unveils $68 mn public fund for Tokyo office purchase

Daishin Asset Management Co. Ltd. has launched a public fund to raise up to 80 billion won ($68 million) to fund its $180 million purchase of a Tokyo ...

Hana likely to acquire Tour CBX on France office buying spree

Hana likely to acquire Tour CBX on France office buying spree

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. is likely to continue its buying spree for French office buildings by adding Tour CBX, worth around 400 million eur...

PGIM to secure $60 mn from Seoul office sale to Keppel

PGIM Inc., the asset management arm of US-based Prudential Financial Inc., is set to pocket about 70 billion won ($60 million) in capital gains from i...

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