Umicore Zinc Chemicals

Korea Zinc Inc. Chairman Choi Yun-birm appears to have kept his grip on the world’s largest zinc smelter after successfully fending off an MBK...

MBK Partners Special Situations (MBKP SS), which operates the Seoul-based private equity firm’s credit situations funds, has voluntarily relin...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) said on Monday it will not participate in investments related to hostile mergers and acquisitions...

South Korean chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group has taken a 9.9% stake in Austal Ltd., an Australian shipbuilder, for 183.3 million Aust...

The battle for control of Korea Zinc Inc. between an MBK Partners-led alliance and the zinc smelter’s Chairman Choi Yun-birm is evolving into ...

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is on the verge of clinching a major acquisition deal by offering a higher bid than other conten...

Lotte Group, South Korea’s sixth-largest conglomerate, is speeding up its business streamlining efforts amid mounting debts as it has moved on...

Companies under South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group scrambled to sell shares and bonds to raise 4 trillion won ($2.8 billion) e...

South Korea’s Hanwha Group, which is seeking to re-enter the catering market five years after leaving the sector, has agreed to buy a nearly 6...

LG Chem Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest chemicals producer that is fostering vaccine and new drug development as new growth drivers, has kick...

SK and Lotte groups remain the focus for South Korean dealmakers as the two conglomerates accelerate restructuring by divesting non-core assets, a s...

South Korea’s largest zinc smelter, Korea Zinc Inc., plans to export antimony to the US. This rare metal is a flame retardant for batteries ...

A senior Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) official on Thursday denied a report that the regulatory body has referred MBK Partners and Young Poong...

The battle over Korea Zinc Inc.'s management control between Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-birm and the Young Poong Corp.-MBK Partners alliance has b...

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has reported Korea Zinc Inc.'s Chairman Choi Yun-birm and its board of directors to prosecut...

The battle over Korea Zinc Inc.'s management control between Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-birm and the Young Poong Corp.-MBK Partners alliance has n...

Premier Partners and Praxis Capital are on track to raise 1 trillion won ($680 million) in their respective funds after the two South Korean private...

Lotte Chemical Corp.'s joint venture with Japan’s Tokuyama Corp. will ramp up specialty chemicals production to accelerate its shift from...

South Korea’s mergers and acquisitions market shrank further in 2024, with leading business groups seeking to unload non-core assets to bolste...

A consortium of MBK Partners and Young Poong Corp. has raised its stake in Korea Zinc Inc. to 46.7% of voting shares, drawing the group closer to ma...

Hyosung TNC Corp., a South Korean textile and yarn maker, said on Thursday it will acquire the specialty gas division of Hyosung Chemical Corp. for ...

When OneAsia Partners, a Seoul-based private equity fund operator, revised part of its PEF Havana I’s articles of association on Feb. 14, 2023...

Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s top lead and zinc smelter, said on Tuesday its Australian subsidiary Ark Energy selected Hanwha Corp. as the pref...

Lotte Group on Thursday denied liquidity crisis rumors sparked by Lotte Chemical Corp.'s struggle to meet a bond redemption request after the South ...

Hyosung TNC Corp., the world’s top spandex maker, is considering taking over the specialty gas business of its chemical affiliate, news of whi...

Hyosung Chemical Corp. has failed to reach an agreement with a consortium of IMM Private Equity and STIC Investments Inc. to sell its specialty gas ...

MBK Partners, a North Asia-focused private equity firm, has completed the second closing of its sixth buyout fund at $5 billion, on course to reach ...

South Korea has designated Korea Zinc Inc.'s precursor manufacturing process as a national core technology and advanced industrial technology, effec...

Korea Zinc Inc. Chair Choi Yun-birm said on Sunday he has a strategy for defending management control of the world’s top zinc and lead smelter...

Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s top lead and zinc smelter, on Wednesday withdrew its 2.5 trillion won ($1.8 billion) rights issue as the move to ...