PEF leadership

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. is tapping private equity firms to sell up to a 49% stake in SK Global Chemical Co. after the chemical raw materials...

BTS agency HYBE’s founder Bang Si-hyuk will resign from his position as CEO to focus on music production. HYBE said that Bang will remain as c...

On June 29, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo will reach a three-year mark of serving as the head of South Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate. This ye...

Coupang Corp. has executed changes in leadership roles to focus more on overseas ventures. The company has entered Japan and Singapore this year. So...

India, one of the world’s fastest-growing auto markets, has for decades been dominated by Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp., which runs Maruti ...

A consortium of three South Korean private equity firms has acquired the domestic operations of the US sportswear brand Spyder for 60 billion won ($...

Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s largest display maker, plans to spend as much as 3 trillion won ($2.7 billion) to build a new organic light...

Samsung Electronics Co. will invest 171 trillion won ($151 billion) by 2030 to take over the global foundry leadership from its archrival TSMC. The ...

South Korea's lesser-known private equity firm Centroid Investment Partners has acquired US sports equipment manufacturing firm TaylorMade Golf Co. ...

Germany's Delivery Hero SE has narrowed down the list of bidders for South Korea’s second-largest food delivery platform Yogiyo to Shinsegae I...

South Korean and overseas private equity firms are knocking on the door of the initial public offering market for profitable divestments, riding the...

South Korea’s second-largest food delivery app Yogiyo has drawn about 10 preliminary bidders, including retailer Shinsegae and private equity ...

Lotte Chemical Corp. plans to further expand the production line for ethylene oxide adduct (EOA), a specialty material used in the construction indu...

The aviation industry, one of the hardest-hit sectors by the global pandemic, is now whetting the appetite of South Korean private equity firms whic...

Doosan Co., the holding company of South Korea's Doosan Group, is in contact with several private equity firms to sell its in-house electronic mater...

South Korea-based private equity firm Skylake Equity Partners is seeking to sell a 100% stake in Outback Steakhouse Korea, as the PE firm and sale m...

South Korea’s die and mold industry reported another year of export growth last year, fueled by record-high volume to North America, and maint...

Japan's biggest refiner Enoes Corp. is one of the four final bidders for a minority stake in South Korea's SK Lubricants Co., wholly owned by SK Inn...

The semiconductor chip manufacturing process requires wafer – a thin slice of semiconductor on which integrated circuits are fabricated – ...

The semiconductor chip manufacturing process requires that wafers – thin slices of semiconductor on which integrated circuits are fabricated &...

  Affirma Capital and South Korea-based EastBridge Partners will invest a combined 400 billion won ($350 million) in SK Telecom Co.'s mobility...

Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. is up for sale as its main creditor hopes to cash out of the South Korean builder on the back of its impro...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest TV maker, has launched new flashy flagship TV models, with which the tech giant aims to retain it...

The National Pension Service boosted investments in private equity deals involving high-growth internet and software companies last year, while dive...

New York-based EMP Belstar, of which about half of the top managers are of Korean origin, has recently hired as a non-executive director a former se...

Medivate Partners, South Korea’s life science-focused private equity firm, is set to secure more than 2.5 times its investment of around 60 bi...

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is lowering the bar for mergers and acquisitions by including potential rivals, which have yet to en...

Hana Financial Investment Co. has acquired a small South Korean industrial waste treatment company in a consortium with two private equity firms, in...

Hyundai Motor Group has carried out a massive reshuffling among its key affiliates, with members of Chairman Chung Euisun's inner circle promoted ...

Samsung Electronics Co. is upping the ante to extend its leadership in the memory chip sector with a vow to invest heavily in the NAND business next...