financial firms

SK Innovation Co. Ltd., the single shareholder of SK Lubricants Co. Ltd., has put the lube base oil supplier up for sale as the parent company seeks n...

South Korea’s largest waste treatment company EMC Holdings Co. Ltd. has drawn binding bids from Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) Gr...

Silence over the tenure of incumbent chief investment officer (CIO) at the National Pension Service is stirring up talk within the global asset manage...

Hana Financial Investment Co., Ltd has invested in an energy storage system development project as an underwriter for senior loans worth $117 million....

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

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has purchased a $77 million mezzanine loan backed by a six-story space in the 101-story, 30 Hudson Yards, the third...

Baring Private Equity Asia is in the final stages of talks with a South Korean private equity firm to sell the country’s No. 4 parcel delivery c...

The Carlyle Group has tentatively agreed to buy $200 million worth of bonds exchangeable into shares in KB Financial Group and the US private equity f...

KKR & Co. has been named as preferred buyer of two South Korean companies providing industrial and medical waste treatment services in a deal wort...

Singapore’s Keppel Infrastructure and MBK Partners are among 15-odd preliminary bidders for South Korea’s largest wastewater treatment com...

KKR & Co. is preparing to join the race for a South Korean industrial and medical waste treatment company valued at about 800 billion won ($645 mi...

Prudential Financial Inc. has decided to sell its South Korean insurance arm to KB Financial Group for about 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) and will ...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has extended its financial division head’s term for another year to focus on the risk management asso...

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

Anchor Equity Partners has invested 209.8 billion won ($170 million) in South Korea’s content and entertainment company Kakao M Corp., just afte...

Spain’s Banco Santander and Hyundai Capital Services Inc. have decided to buy a controlling stake in Sixt Leasing SE, a unit of German car renta...

South Korea’s $25 million biotechnology-themed fund, launched by Meritz Securities Co. Ltd., has earned triple-digit returns on its 2.7 billion ...

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...

Macquarie’s investment unit may attract Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and other limited partners of its Asia infrastructure fund a...

Macquarie’s South Korean unit signed a definitive agreement on Dec. 6 to buy a non-controlling stake in LG CNS Co. Ltd., an IT services arm of L...

South Korean brokerage firms are stepping up efforts to sell down their remaining equity investments of around 600 billion won ($518 million) in the P...

Three South Korean brokerage firms, including Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., underwrote around 250 billion won ($208 million) of a subordinated debt on ...

South Korean financial institutions, including Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and KDB Life Insurance Co. Ltd., have invested $96.4 million in ...

A number of wealthy South Koreans have committed 5.5 million euros ($6.1 million) to Germany’s Earlybird Venture Capital, in the first direct investme...

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...

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has led a South Korean brokerage consortium to buy the largest hotel in Austria, Hilton Vienna, for $375 million which is e...

The planned sale of the parent company of South Korea’s biggest online gaming firm Nexon Co. Ltd., was abruptly cancelled after it failed to narrow th...

Three South Korean financial services firms - NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., its affiliate NH Bank and Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. - ...

The 300-billion-won ($263 million) equity investment in a South Korean cosmetics firm by a consortium of Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs in 2016 was th...

A consortium of Dalmore Capital and Equitix Investment Management will sell down a stake in Cross London Trains (XLT) to three South Korean brokerage ...