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  • Mergers & Acquisitions
    Hahn & Co’s $270 mn deal to buy Namyang Dairy at risk of collapse

    South Korean private equity (PE) firm Hahn & Co.’s deal to acquire Namyang Dairy Products is at risk of collapse as th...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
    Ssangyong draws HAAH and electric bus, scooter makers

    Ssangyong Motor Co., a troubled South Korean sports utility vehicle maker, has drawn nine preliminary bidders, including a US au...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • IPOs
    HK inno.N’s IPO attracts $25 bn from retail investors

    HK inno.N Corp. (inno.N), a pharmaceuticals unit of Kolmar Korea, drew a massive $25 billion from retail investors for its lis...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Earnings
    Hyosung Group still going strong with stellar Q2 earnings

    South Korea’s textile and chemicals conglomerate Hyosung Group has again reported stellar business results for the second ...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Korean chipmakers
    Chip supercycle view revives with DRAM, NAND prices at multi-year highs

    The contract prices of memory chip prices are hovering around multi-year high levels, fanning the view that the global semicondu...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
    Korea’s only shipyard under creditor protection to be sold this year

    A sale of Daehan Shipbuilding Co., South Korea’s only shipbuilder under creditor protection, is to be completed within thi...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Markets
    Current asset prices not irrational: Howard Marks

    Many asset prices have skyrocketed to their highest-ever levels as interest rates remain historically low, but that does not mea...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Korean games
    Nexon founder resigns in top management reshuffle

    South Korean game company Nexon’s founder Kim Jung-ju has resigned from the chief executive position at NXC Corp., the hol...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Pension funds
    Canada’s CPPIB promotes Suyi Kim to global head of private equity

    The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has named Suyi Kim, its Asia head, as the global chief of its private equity bu...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Memo from Howard Marks
    Thinking about macro

    For a piece of information to be desirable, it has to satisfy two criteria: it has to be important, and it has to be knowable. &nd...

    Jul 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)