buyouts

South Korea’s MBK Partners said on Jan. 3 that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Dongjin Textile Co. -- a Korean firm that has been s...

DL Chemical Co. became the first South Korean company to acquire a US-listed company in a leveraged buyout. The Korean petrochemical company said on...

US-listed chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. and Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital terminated their $1.4 billion buyout agreement...

When KNet Investment Partners LLC, a South Korean venture capital company, invested 9.9 billion won ($8.6 million) in Krafton Inc. in 2009, the game...

South Korea’s private equity firm Hahn & Co. filed a lawsuit against the owner of Namyang Dairy Products and his family to complete a $267...

Coffeebanhada, a South Korean budget coffee chain operator, is seeking to attract investment from private equity funds and strategic investors.Accor...

Leading private equity firms, including Bain Capital, KKR & Co. and MBK Partners, appeared to have turned to an exit mode in South Korea this ye...

Shinsegae Group pushed through to be the sole winner in the prolonged race to acquire control of eBay Korea, making it a close runner-up in South Ko...

Korean Air Lines Co. will spend 1.8 trillion won ($1.6 billion) to own a majority stake in beleaguered local rival Asiana Airlines Inc., in a deal t...

Apax Partners is an established, leading private equity firm both in France and in Europe. We are motivated to realise and develop the potential...

South Korea’s M&A market may reconsider leveraged buyouts due to the Supreme Court’s remanding of the case involving Sun Jong-koo, the...

Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., South Korea’s second-biggest life insurer, has committed around $400 million to KKR & Co.’s new Asia b...

MBK Partners held the final close of its fifth buyout fund at $6.5 billion on May 20, which marked the third-biggest fundraising for an Asia-focused p...

South Korea’s new private equity firm Tiger Alternative Investors has provided $100 million in debt funding for KKR’s $1.32 billion acquisition of Ken...

Korea Post’s insurance unit plans to commit $200 million to around three blind-pool private equity funds for buyout strategy in 2018 to invest in the ...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd., wholly owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., is seeking to raise between €100 million ($107 million) an...

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and a federation of credit cooperative in South Korea have extended about 50 billion won ($44 million) of loan...

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., South Korea’s second-largest non-life insurer by assets, is considering investing in one or two addition...

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. has recently committed €50 million ($53 million) to a €7 billion buyout fund which British private equity...

The National Pension Service (NPS) and the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), two major South Korean investors, were confirmed to invest a combined &...