Korea scientists fund to commit $34 mn to BlueBay Asset’s Europe debt fund

Korea scientists fund to commit $34 mn to BlueBay Asset’s Europe debt fund

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has committed €28 million ($34 million) to a European mid-market private debt fund of Blu...

KDB Infra invests $60 mn in Turkey’s hospital PPP debt

KDB Infra invests $60 mn in Turkey’s hospital PPP debt

KDB Infrastructure Investment Asset Management Co. Ltd. (KIAMCO) has invested 65 billion won ($61 million) in a debt on one of Turkey’s largest hospit...

Mirae Asset buys $95 mn debt on Blackstone-owned Cosmopolitan hotel

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd., the brokerage arm of South Korea’s leading mutual fund house, has bought a $95 million mezzanine debt on the Cosmopolitan...

Meritz Real Estate arranges $122 mn investment in US, Italy property debts

Meritz Real Estate arranges $122 mn investment in US, Italy property debts

Meritz Real Estate Asset Management Co. Ltd., part of a South Korean financial services group, has recently arranged 120 billion won ($112 million) in...

Shinhan GIB underwrites $190 mn mezzanine debt on Manhattan building

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...

Meritz Real Estate underwrites $53 mn debt on luxury high rise in Manhattan

Meritz Real Estate underwrites $53 mn debt on luxury high rise in Manhattan

Meritz Real Estate Asset Management Co. Ltd. has underwritten five-year senior debt of 57.5 billion won ($53 million) secured on a super-luxury, 131-s...

Korea Post invests $60 mn in senior debt on US gas power plants: report

Korea Post has invested $60 million in a seven-year private debt fund to provide a senior loan secured on four US gas-fired power plants, but the inve...

Hyundai Investments raises $162 mn for US debt securitization fund

Hyundai Investments raises $162 mn for US debt securitization fund

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has collected $162 million from five South Korean institutional investors to invest in a $2 billion US real estate debt s...

LaSalle’s Europe debt fund collects $110 mn from three Korean investors

LaSalle’s Europe debt fund collects $110 mn from three Korean investors

The Military Mutual Aid Association, the Employment Insurance Fund and an unidentified South Korean institutional investor have committed a total of $...

[RFP] POBA seeks US private debt fund managers for about $150 mn

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will select two to three US private debt fund houses to make senior secured, direct lending of around ...

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Debt, Europe remain at top of Korean LPs’ property deals

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Debt, Europe remain at top of Korean LPs’ property deals

Top South Korean institutional investors will remain focused on property-backed debt and Europe for real estate investment in 2018 because of valuatio...

Samsung, Kyobo Life to buy $129 mn debt of US toll road from IFM Investors

Samsung, Kyobo Life to buy $129 mn debt of US toll road from IFM Investors

Two of South Korea’s top three life insurers – Samsung and Kyobo – will buy $129 million debt backed by revenues of the Indiana Toll Road Concession C...

Deutsche Bank resells $60 mn Transtelco debt to Korean credit cooperative

Deutsche Bank resells $60 mn Transtelco debt to Korean credit cooperative

Deutsche Bank has resold $60 million in senior secured debt of Transtelco Inc., a fiber optic services provider in the US and Mexico, to MG Korean Fed...

Korean investors buy $75 mn debt of Warburg Pincus-backed Hanoi hotel

Korean investors buy $75 mn debt of Warburg Pincus-backed Hanoi hotel

A pool of South Korean pension and retirement funds have invested around 85 billion won ($75 million) in debt of a Warburg Pincus-backed, five-star ...

Three Korean investors to buy $87 mn debt backed by US resorts: report

Three Korean investors to buy $87 mn debt backed by US resorts: report

Three South Korean institutional investors will buy 100 billion won ($87 million) worth of mezzanine debt secured on a portfolio of 15 water park reso...

Samsung Sec debuts in US solar farm debt deal with $67 mn underwriting

Samsung Sec debuts in US solar farm debt deal with $67 mn underwriting

Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., a top South Korean brokerage company, has underwritten $66.7 million in senior debt to fund a solar power plant acquisiti...

Mirae Asset buys $48 mn mezzanine debt backed by FedEx-leased warehouses

Mirae Asset buys $48 mn mezzanine debt backed by FedEx-leased warehouses

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. invested 54 billion won ($48 million) last week in mezzanine debt secured on two warehouses leased to FedEx Co...

Golub and Ares win $60 mn private debt mandates from Korea scientists fund

Golub and Ares win $60 mn private debt mandates from Korea scientists fund

Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has decided to make its first allocation to global private debt funds by committing $...

Korean investors fund half of HNA’s $700 mn debt financing for Gategroup deal

Korean investors fund half of HNA’s $700 mn debt financing for Gategroup deal

Shinhan Investment Corp. and a South Korean private equity firm have provided $350 million in bridge loans to finance Chinese HNA Group’s $1.5 billion...

KTB Asset’s real estate senior debt fund raises $106 mn from three Korean firms

KTB Asset’s real estate senior debt fund raises $106 mn from three Korean firms

KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. has raised 120 billion won ($106 million) from three South Korean financial services firms for a blind-pool fund to inve...

Korean insurers invest $118 mn in US power generation portfolio debt

Korean insurers invest $118 mn in US power generation portfolio debt

Five South Korean insurance companies have invested $118 million in senior debt of a portfolio of six US thermal power facilities, which are expected ...

US Golub Capital’s $2 bn debt fund may raise over $40 mn from Korea

US Golub Capital’s $2 bn debt fund may raise over $40 mn from Korea

South Korean brokerage firm Shinhan Investment Corp. and a retirement savings fund have decided to commit $20 million each to a $2 billion private deb...

Korean insurers invest $160 mn in debt of Facebook-leased NY property

Korean insurers invest $160 mn in debt of Facebook-leased NY property

A group of South Korean insurance firms have invested 180 billion won ($160 million) in mezzanine debt secured on two interconnected buildings in New ...

Hana Financial joins $269 mn debt financing of two US solar power plants

Hana Financial joins $269 mn debt financing of two US solar power plants

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has underwritten $40 million of secured debt, part of $269 million debt financing to fund asset manager Capital Dyn...

Australia archive facility’s 29-yr debt attracts $60 mn from Korean insurers

Australia archive facility’s 29-yr debt attracts $60 mn from Korean insurers

A group of South Korean insurers will invest 69 billion won ($60 million) in 29-year senior debt secured on Australia’s National Archives Preservati...

NPS in emergency system under acting CIO, global alternatives head

NPS in emergency system under acting CIO, global alternatives head

The National Pension Service (NPS) has begun running an emergency inspection system for its investment management department with the appointment of...

Meritz Real Estate arranges $226 mn mezzanine debt for NY building

Meritz Real Estate arranges $226 mn mezzanine debt for NY building

Meritz Real Estate Asset Management Co. Ltd. has arranged South Korean asset owners’ investment of around 260 billion won ($226 million) in 10-year me...

Goldman Sachs’ real estate debt fund raises $100 mn from Korea

South Korea’s institutional investors, including the Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMAA), have committed $100 million to Goldman Sachs...

[RFP] POBA seeks private credit SMA managers for $200 mn

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will select two global private credit managers to invest around $200 million in mezzanine debt via sep...

LaSalle seeks $180 mn-$270 mn from Korea for Europe debt fund

LaSalle seeks $180 mn-$270 mn from Korea for Europe debt fund

LaSalle Investment Management is seeking to raise 200 billion won ($180 million) to 300 billion won ($270 million) from South Korean institutional inv...

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