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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 ...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint fund with South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. Ltd. to make cross-border investme...

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 ...

About 10 South Korean insurers, including Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., have invested 300 million pounds ($394 million) in one of the UK’s largest i...

Morgan Stanley led South Korea’s merger advisory services market in 2018, accounting for 8.6 trillion won ($7.7 billion) worth of takeover deals, ...

Two small South Korean financial services companies have acquired a landmark office building in central Warsaw for 183 billion won ($162 million) in t...

A consortium of South Korean financial institutions has been in exclusive talks to buy the Canary Wharf headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in a deal ...

KB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and other units of South Korea’s top banking group KB Financial Group co-invested 90 million euros ($103 million) in a se...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has poured around $100 million into a co-investment led by a Morgan Stanley fund to acquire units of a US shale gas...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has bought new preferred shares issued by a US real estate investment trust company for $125 million, ahead of the ...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has completed the €235 million ($275 million) acquisition of a seven-story office building in the Paris metropolitan area...

An independent South Korean investment firm has become the first institutional shareholder in Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. publicly supporting the Hyundai M...

Hyundai Motor Group has bolstered the roster of its advisors with the addition of Goldman Sachs and US law firm Latham & Watkins LLP to step up fi...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have invested around 38 billion won ($36 million...

South Korea’s construction materials company, Aju Group, closed a $87 million acquisition of a hotel near Seattle from Marriott International Inc. las...

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...