Blackstone Geo-Young
Scope
Date
~
-
Executive reshuffles
Samsung promotes young executives to lead memory, foundry businesses
Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced a leadership shuffle in its two key businesses – memory chips and foundry – as the South ...
Dec 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Pre-IPOs
Goldman Sachs joins race for Korea’s beauty store chain
Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) has entered the race for a stake in South Korea’s health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young, beco...
Nov 23, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Pre-IPOs
IMM, four other local PEFs shortlisted for CJ Olive Young pre-IPO
IMM Private Equity and four other South Korean private equity firms have been shortlisted for health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young’s pre-i...
Oct 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone leans toward warehouse, life science properties
The Blackstone Group, which four years ago held the world’s largest hotel portfolio, has shed most of its hotel investments over the past few ye...
Oct 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
-
M&A
PAG inks $127 mn deal to sell Tobots-maker Young Toys to MiraeN, 2 local PEFs
Hong Kong-based investment firm PAG has agreed to sell South Korean toymaker Young Toys Inc. to a consortium led by local education service provi...
Aug 27, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Pension fund
NPS joins in billion-dollar LNG midstream deals of Blackstone, KKR
The National Pension Service (NPS) made an investment of the trillion-won ($860 million) level in two LNG midstream assets in North America last month...
Jan 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Real estate
Hana Fin buys Germany’s office complex from Blackstone for $1.1 bn
Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. closed on the 1.3 trillion won ($1.1 billion) purchase of Germany’s largest office complex in Frankfurt from ...
Dec 05, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone, Principal Asset win Korea Post’s $150 mn mandates
Korea Post has awarded two real estate debt investment mandates worth $150 million to the Blackstone Group and Principal Asset Management, its savings...
Jul 04, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone to buy stake in Korea’s largest shopping mall
The Blackstone Group has agreed to buy a 31.85% stake in South Korea’s largest shopping mall from the US developer Taubman Centers Inc. which is selli...
Feb 16, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korea Investment to commit $18 mn from short-term debt to Blackstone
Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., one of aggressive cross-border institutional investors in South Korea, will commit 20 billion won ($18 mil...
Dec 19, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Hana Alternative to buy $366 mn London building from Blackstone
Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. Ltd. is set to acquire a Blackstone-owned office building in London for 285 million pounds ($366 million) to be...
Nov 24, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone’s $18 bn fund may cut back each commitment: report
Blackstone Group is on track to raise above-target 20 trillion won ($18 billion) for its new global real estate fund and may cut back commitment from ...
Nov 22, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
KTCU, Mirae Asset to invest $143 mn in debt on Blackstone's power plant: report
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) and three units of Mirae Asset Financial Group will invest a combined 160 billion won ($143 million) in senio...
Aug 01, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone, Temasek’s Mapletree in $700 mn auction for Samsung Town office
The Blackstone Group and Temasek-backed Mapletree Investments are competing with South Korean asset managers and brokerage firms in the auction for Sa...
Jun 11, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Mirae Asset to acquire Blackstone’s London office building for $460 mn
Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to acquire a prime office building in the City of London from the Blackstone Group for £340 million ($461 million...
May 06, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Simone Investment buys $56 mn debt on Blackstone-owned Hawaii hotel
Simone Investment Managers Co. Ltd., a unit of a South Korean handbag maker, has invested around 60 billion won ($56 million) in a mezzanine debt on...
Mar 27, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone, Korea Post among bidders for $1 bn new office tower in Seoul
Twin office towers under construction in Seoul, worth an estimated 1.1 trillion won ($1 billion), have attracted Blackstone Group, Korea Post and five...
Mar 01, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Hangang Asset invests $47 mn in debt on Blackstone-owned Orlando hotels
Hangang Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested 50 billion won ($47 million) in a mezzanine debt on two luxury hotels in Orlando, Florida, on behalf of...
Jan 25, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
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...
Jan 05, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone, Carlyle, TPG raise over $100 mn from network-hungry Korean firms
Three global private equity firms – Blackstone, Carlyle and TPG – have gathered an aggregate $113 million in commitments from South Korean institution...
Nov 06, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone, Kuwait fund among bidders for NPS’ Sony Center in Berlin: report
Blackstone, Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) and three property investment firms are vying for Sony Center in Berlin which South Korea’s National Pen...
Jul 19, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
-
[Exclusive]NPS invests $300 mn in TeamHealth as co-investor with Blackstone
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in TeamHealth Holdings Inc. for about $300 million, in a joint investment i...
Feb 06, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
-
KTB Asset jointly acquires $68.5 mn debt of NY building from Blackstone
South Korea’s KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and two other domestic institutions have invested about $68.5 million in mezzanine debt secured by a Manha...
Feb 05, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone in $1 bn mezzanine debt fundraising; Korean govt officials’ fund to invest $50 mn
Blackstone Group has attracted New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS), US insurer MIRAS and a South Korean government employees’ fund to ...
Jan 16, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone may inject $200 mn into Korea fund for 6~7 logistics center purchase
The Blackstone Group L.P. is understood to commit about $200 million to a South Korean fund to finance its 70 billion won ($59 million) acquisition of...
Dec 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean asset firm raises $79 mn to invest in Blackstone-owned Las Vegas hotel
A small-sized South Korean asset management firm, Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., has raised a real estate fund to invest 93 billion won ($79 million) i...
Nov 25, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone’s property loan fund raises $900 mn in Korea, beating funding target
Blackstone, the world’s largest real estate investment firm, has attracted 1 trillion won ($900 million) from South Korean institutional investors for...
Aug 25, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
-
NPS to put $440 mn in Blackstone’s $5 bn core fund
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea will commit 500 billion won ($436 million) to a $5 billion private equity fund that Blackstone Group...
Jul 11, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone, Pomona win mandates for Korea GEPS’ $100 mn investment
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has awarded $50 million mandates each to Blackstone and Pomona Capital for global secondary ...
Jun 23, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Blackstone picked as preferred buyer of S.Korea’s $400 mln office building – report
Blackstone has been chosen as the preferred bidder of a prime office building in downtown Seoul, in a deal estimated to fetch 460 billion~480 billion ...
Jun 15, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Seoul appeal: Korean art captivates Indonesia’s affluent connoisseurs
- 2 CJ CheilJedang scraps $3.5 bn green bio sale, shifts gears to expansion
- 3 Trump Jr. meets Korean business chiefs in back-to-back sessions
- 4 Samsung in talks to supply customized HBM4 to Nvidia, Broadcom, Google
- 5 Kookmin Bank raises $700 mn in forex bonds amid strong demand