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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

[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...

[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...

ABCP issues backed by Chinese bank deposits seen to top corporate bond sales in Korea

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

[RFP] Korea Post seeks fixed-income managers for U.S. corporate bond investment

- Proposal submission due by June 7, 2016; final selection set for July 2016 - To pick 2 firms for publicly-offered funds with minimum $300 mln AUM...

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...