Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee meets Vietnam's PM Phuc to discuss business ties

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee met with Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Oct. 20 to discuss ways to strengthen bus...

Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee embarks on Vietnam trip, may meet PM Phuc

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee is visiting Vietnam, where he is widely expected to meet Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to seek more...

Shinhan Card to issue $300 mn in dollar bonds; first such issue in 13 years

Shinhan Card Co. is set to issue $300 million (about 340 billion won) worth of dollar bonds at the end of this month for overseas investors, according...

Shinhan seeks to acquire stake in JV with BNP Paribas in split move

Shinhan Financial Group is seeking to acquire a stake held by BNP Paribas in a joint venture in what is widely seen as the South Korean holding compan...

KEPCO set to finance $190 mn for Vietnam’s coal power plant project

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) will move forward with its participation in Vietnam’s coal-fired power plant project, after the deal came c...

Shinhan Bank sells $285 mn in Australian-dollar social bonds

Shinhan Bank has raised A$400 million ($285 million) in five-year bonds denominated in the Australian dollar to fund lending to pandemic-hit companies...

SK Innovation’s battery arm secures $258 mn in pre-IPO placement

SK Innovation Co.’s wholly owned subsidiary SK IE Technology Co. (SK IET) is set to fetch 300 billion won ($257.6 million) in a pre-IPO placemen...

KKR’s strategic relationship with Shinhan Financial fizzles

Back in 2018, KKR & Co. tentatively agreed to buy a minority stake in South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group to build a strategic relationshi...

Affinity Equity, Baring PEA tipped to invest $1 bn in Shinhan Financial

Affinity Equity Partners and Baring Private Equity Asia will likely invest a combined 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) in new shares of Shinhan Financial...

Hanwha Q Cells secures 315MW solar power, energy storage project in Portugal

Hanwha Q Cells Co. has secured the right to generate half of the 700-megawatt power capacity put up for auction in Portugal, becoming the first compan...

KB Securities buys Amazon’s Edinburgh logistics center for $86.5 mn: report

KB Securities Co. has reportedly acquired Amazon’s logistics center in Edinburgh, Scotland, for 102.5 billion won ($86.5 million), which the onl...

Debt-laden Doosan Group puts Doosan Infracore up for sale to secure cash

Doosan Group kicked off the sale process for Doosan Infracore, the group’s construction equipment builder, with the sale manager ...

[Upcoming IPO] Korean streaming service Watcha secures funding to join global players like Netflix

Watcha, a Korean streaming platform, is gearing up to tap into Japan and Southeast Asian markets following the completion of Series D funding worth 19...

Naver likely to invest near $83.5 million into SM Entertainment to secure K-pop content

Korea’s platform giant Naver is in talks with SM Entertainment, Korea’s largest entertainment company, to acquire shares worth approximate...

Shinhan Financial in search to acquire traditional asset manager

Shinhan Financial Group, one of Korea's largest financial holding firms, has reached out to asset management companies that are well-versed ...

Equity-linked securities weigh on top Korean brokerage firms

About 48 trillion won ($39 billion) of outstanding equity-linked securities (ELS) issued by South Korean brokerage companies has put their sector lead...

KKR secures $1.2 bn exits in Korea for two Asia funds

KKR & Co. has sold a modern logistics facility it had developed in a South Korean port in a transaction estimated to be worth more than 200 billio...

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 ...

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...

Shinhan Financial to raise $200 mn for KKR’s tailor-made funds

Shinhan Financial Group will raise $200 million for two KKR funds of funds (FoFs) tailor-made for the South Korean banking group, under a strategic pa...

Shinhan raises $330 mn for Carlyle’s bespoke revolving loan fund

Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. (SAIM) has raised $330 million for the Carlyle Group’s newly launched revolving loan fund (CREV) ...

NPS sets up $860 mn Vietnam investment fund with SK Group

The National Pension Service (NPS) has launched a 1 trillion won ($860 million) fund with SK Group to invest in Vietnamese companies, through which th...

Greystar, Patrizia secure Korea Post’s $100 mn housing investment

US-based Greystar Real Estate Partners and Germany’s Patrizia AG have won a $100 million mandate from Korea Post to invest in the housing sector...

Meritz Securities buys 24 aircraft for $686 mn from US lessor

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has recently closed the acquisition of 24 aircraft for $686 million from Aviation Capital Group Corp. (ACG), in its third i...

Shinhan provides $100 mn mezzanine loan on Brookfield’s US hotel

Shinhan Investment Corp. has provided a $100 million mezzanine loan on Brookfield’s resort hotel in Florida which recently secured $560 million ...

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...

Korean VC firms invest $26 mn in India, Vietnam start-ups

South Korean venture capital firms have invested a combined $26 million in Internet-based start-up companies in India and Vietnam, betting on the rapi...

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...

Shinhan to lend $150 mn senior loan on US energy deal: report

Shinhan Investment Corp. will provide a $150 million senior loan to an energy company of Ares Management LP to finance its acquisition of a US midstre...

Shinhan buys KPMG-leased Prague building for $58 mn: report

Shinhan Investment Corp., a brokerage arm of South Korea’s leading banking group, has bought a KPMG-leased office building in central Prague for 65 ...