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 ...

KKR to buy stake in Shinhan Fin; to raise joint funds of up to $4.4 bn

KKR & Co., a private equity giant, has reached a preliminary agreement to buy a minority stake in South Korea’s No.2 banking group Shinhan Financi...

Shinhan Alternative invests $300 mn in debt on Brooklyn office complex

Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. has invested $300 million in mezzanine debts against Dumbo Heights, an office campus in Brooklyn, on be...

Daishin Securities to invest $110 mn to buy two Manhattan buildings

Daishin Securities Co. Ltd., a small-sized South Korean brokerage firm, is set to buy two buildings in Manhattan with an equity investment of 122.7 bi...

Vietnam’s Vingroup raises $400 mn from new stock sale to Hanwha Asset

Vingroup JSC, Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, has issued convertible preferred shares to raise $400 million in a private placement to South Korea’s Ha...

Ares Management secures $300 mn in US gas project debt from Korea

Ares Management LP has raised a total of $300 million in credit facilities from South Korean institutional investors, including Hana Financial Investm...

KB Securities acquires $140 mn Facebook-leased Dublin building

KB Securities Co. Ltd., a unit of a top South Korean banking group, has bought a building used as Facebook Inc.'s second Dublin office for around 150 ...

Shinhan sources $100 mn debt investment in US hotel portfolio

Shinhan Financial Group’s alternative investment arm has sourced a $100 million investment by three South Korean insurers in a mezzanine debt on US ho...

Shinhan GIB underwrites $190 mn mezzanine debt on Manhattan building

Shinhan Financial Group’s newly-launched investment banking division has underwritten $190 million of 10-year mezzanine debt on One Worldwide Plaza, a...

Brokerage firm Shinhan sources and lends $175 mn loan on Chicago building

Shinhan Investment Corp. has extended a $175 million loan on a prime office tower in Chicago, a rare case in which a South Korean brokerage house sour...

Pennsylvania gas power plant to secure $140 mn loans from Korean investors

South Korean banks and institutional investors will provide $140 million in syndicated loans to a US gas-fired plant project in Pennsylvania, part of ...

NPS secures hefty return from first exit of global infrastructure co-investment

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has pocketed more than €100 million ($114 million) from the recent sale of a 5% stake in Spain’s leading ...

Meritz Securities to buy Zalando’s Berlin campus for $215 mn

A consortium of South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. and Capstone Asset Management Co. Ltd. will acquire a new office building of German online re...

KB Securities to launch public fund to buy $224 mn Hawaii hotel from KKR

The brokerage arm of KB Financial Group, a top South Korean banking group, is planning to raise around 60 billion won ($54 million) from individual in...

[Interview] Shinhan Life eyes low-volatility investments ahead of new accounting rule

The life insurance arm of South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group will allocate more than 90% of its assets under management to loans and bonds to...

[RFP] Korea Post seeks to invest about $90 mn in offshore insurance-linked securities

Korea Post’s savings unit has decided to commit about 100 billion won ($87 mn) to investment firms managing or marketing offshore insurance-linked sec...

Korean banks flex muscles for alternative assets; Kookmin, Shinhan may invest in KKR’s fund

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank are consdering investing 30 billion won ($26 million) each to a private equity buyout fund which KKR &...

[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...

Meritz Securities drops $500 mn Walmart store acquisition plan after US rate hike

South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has abandoned plans to acquire about 40 stores of Walmart Stores Inc. in southern states of the U.S. for $500...

Apollo secures $72 mn from Korean funds for German property refinancing

Apollo Global Management has attracted 80 billion won ($72 million) from a couple of South Korean pension funds to refinance part of bank loans it had...

Shinhan Securities leads M&A financing for Trench Group acquisition (edited)

Shinhan Securities Co. announced on Monday that it participated as the lead arranger in the merger and acquisition (M&A) financing of Trench Gro...

Shinhan to lead financing for battery storage project in Japan

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