Activst fund KCGI struggles to fund Hanyang Securities deal

KCGI, a South Korean private equity firm, has been struggling to raise funds for its 244.9-billion-won ($183 million) purchase of a controlling stak...
KCGI, a South Korean private equity firm, has been struggling to raise funds for its 244.9-billion-won ($183 million) purchase of a controlling stak...
A number of junior bankers at the Korean offices of major global investment banks such as Morgan Stanely and J.P.Morgan have resigned since July wit...
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system and defense equipment maker under Hyundai Motor Group, is expected to clinch large defense deals in...
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services provider, said on Wednesday it has signed a deal to acquire Tongya...
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has begun supplying its latest automotive chip, LPDDR4X, to Qualcomm Technologies...
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Thai Aviation Industries (TAI), Thailand's state-owned aircraf...
South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. secured its first project to convert a floating storage unit for liquefied natural gas (LNG-FSU).HD Hyu...
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said on Wednesday that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Norway's state-owned energy company Equi...
Hankook Tire & Technology Co. said on Wednesday that it will supply its tires for Mercedes' high-performance brand AMG's sports car, the GT Coup...
South Korean shipbuilders are in talks with Qatari state companies for an estimated $3.3 billion in deals to manufacture additional liquefied natura...
Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF) has signed an agreement to buy a 40-megawatt (MW) data center from Seoul-based IGIS Asset Management Co. ...
South Korean regulators have ordered Doosan Robotics Inc. to amend the securities prospectus it submitted last week for its merger with Doosan Bobca...
Prime office transactions in Seoul hit a 10-year low in the second quarter due to delayed fundraising amid uncertainties of the central bank’s...
South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...
Doosan Group’s announcement of a merger between Doosan Robotics Inc. and Doosan Bobcat Inc. has met with strong criticism from investors and p...
Doosan Enerbility Co., a leading South Korean power plant engineering company, said on Monday it has clinched a 580 billion won ($418 million) deal ...
The sale of South Korean mid-sized insurer MG Non-Life Insurance Co. has been canceled as the financially distressed insurer failed to attract any b...
Bank of America Corp. (BofA) is quickly expanding its presence in the South Korean initial public offering market, where J.P. Morgan and Citigroup G...
South Korea is considering tripling the maximum amount of dollars the National Pension Service (NPS) can buy from the domestic foreign exchange mark...
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has hired four investment firms – MBK Partne...
Hanwha Systems Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Tuesday it has clinched a $867 million deal to supply its advanced mobile multi-...
LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s top three battery makers, on Monday posted a smaller quarterly profit, hurt by sluggish global ele...
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is seeing little demand for a Seoul-based new prim...
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...
Jollibee Foods Corp., the Philippines’ largest fast-food chain, is set to take over a majority stake in Compose Coffee Co., South Korea’...
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has clinched a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply LFP batteries for low-en...
UBS Group AG topped the South Korean mergers and acquisitions (M&A) league table in the second quarter as the global investment bank worked on m...
Hanwha Ocean Co., a shipbuilding unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group, said on Monday it has won a combined 2....
A consortium of Eugene Private Equity and Korea Development Bank Private Equity will acquire 80% of South Korean vaccine maker Boryung Biopharma Co....
SK On Co. has inked an MOU with ExxonMobil Corp. to buy lithium extracted by the US oil giant from a salt well in the US state of Arkansas. The deal...