Korean debts
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POBA, Korean insurers to buy $255 mn stake in UK motorway operator
South Korean retirement funds and insurance companies, including the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), are set to buy a 20% stake in th...
Mar 06, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shinhan sources $100 mn debt investment in US hotel portfolio
Shinhan Financial Group’s alternative investment arm has sourced a $100 million investment by three South Korean insurers in a mezzanine debt on US ho...
Mar 04, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Antares Capital raising $200 mn from Korea for private debt fund
Antares Capital LP, a leading US middle-market lender, is raising $200 million from South Korean institutional investors for a private debt fund to wh...
Feb 17, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Teachers’ fund commits $50 mn to Neuberger Berman’s unit
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has recently committed $50 million to a new fund of Dyal Capital Partners, part of US-based investment firm N...
Feb 06, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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POBA commits $150 mn to private debt funds of Antares, Ares and Golub
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has committed an aggregate $150 million to Antares Capital, Golub Capital and Ares Management as the t...
Jan 29, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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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)
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Korea scientists fund to commit $34 mn to BlueBay Asset’s Europe debt fund
Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has committed €28 million ($34 million) to a European mid-market private debt fund of Blu...
Jan 22, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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KDB Infra invests $60 mn in Turkey’s hospital PPP debt
KDB Infrastructure Investment Asset Management Co. Ltd. (KIAMCO) has invested 65 billion won ($61 million) in a debt on one of Turkey’s largest hospit...
Jan 19, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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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)
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Meritz Real Estate arranges $122 mn investment in US, Italy property debts
Meritz Real Estate Asset Management Co. Ltd., part of a South Korean financial services group, has recently arranged 120 billion won ($112 million) in...
Jan 04, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean REIT buys Vienna office building for $71 mn
JR AMC Co. Ltd., a South Korean real estate investment trust (REIT), has acquired an office building used as the headquarters of Porr AG, a European c...
Dec 28, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shinhan GIB underwrites $190 mn mezzanine debt on Manhattan building
Shinhan Financial Group’s newly-launched investment banking division has underwritten $190 million of 10-year mezzanine debt on One Worldwide Plaza, a...
Dec 27, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Meritz Real Estate underwrites $53 mn debt on luxury high rise in Manhattan
Meritz Real Estate Asset Management Co. Ltd. has underwritten five-year senior debt of 57.5 billion won ($53 million) secured on a super-luxury, 131-s...
Dec 22, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post invests $60 mn in senior debt on US gas power plants: report
Korea Post has invested $60 million in a seven-year private debt fund to provide a senior loan secured on four US gas-fired power plants, but the inve...
Dec 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hyundai Investments raises $162 mn for US debt securitization fund
Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has collected $162 million from five South Korean institutional investors to invest in a $2 billion US real estate debt s...
Dec 09, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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GIC, M&G Real Estate in $400 mn bid for POBA-owned Korean building
Singapore’s GIC and M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. are in the bidding for a new office building in South Korea, wholly owned by t...
Dec 07, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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LaSalle’s Europe debt fund collects $110 mn from three Korean investors
The Military Mutual Aid Association, the Employment Insurance Fund and an unidentified South Korean institutional investor have committed a total of $...
Nov 22, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[RFP] POBA seeks US private debt fund managers for about $150 mn
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will select two to three US private debt fund houses to make senior secured, direct lending of around ...
Nov 17, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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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)
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Malaysia pension fund buys Korean logistics center for $70 mn: report
Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has closed the acquisition of a logistics center near Seoul for around 75 billion won ($67 million) in its f...
Nov 03, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Korean LPs eye PPP and greenfield infrastructure
South Korean retirement funds and insurance firms will look to public private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in the UK and other developed ...
Oct 29, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Debt, Europe remain at top of Korean LPs’ property deals
Top South Korean institutional investors will remain focused on property-backed debt and Europe for real estate investment in 2018 because of valuatio...
Oct 27, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung, Kyobo Life to buy $129 mn debt of US toll road from IFM Investors
Two of South Korea’s top three life insurers – Samsung and Kyobo – will buy $129 million debt backed by revenues of the Indiana Toll Road Concession C...
Oct 24, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Deutsche Bank resells $60 mn Transtelco debt to Korean credit cooperative
Deutsche Bank has resold $60 million in senior secured debt of Transtelco Inc., a fiber optic services provider in the US and Mexico, to MG Korean Fed...
Oct 23, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean investors buy $75 mn debt of Warburg Pincus-backed Hanoi hotel
A pool of South Korean pension and retirement funds have invested around 85 billion won ($75 million) in debt of a Warburg Pincus-backed, five-star ...
Oct 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean institutions to invest $53 mn to buy Tesco-leased UK warehouse
A consortium of South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMAA) and MG Non-Life Insurance Co. Ltd. will invest 60 billion won ($53...
Oct 20, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Three Korean investors to buy $87 mn debt backed by US resorts: report
Three South Korean institutional investors will buy 100 billion won ($87 million) worth of mezzanine debt secured on a portfolio of 15 water park reso...
Oct 02, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Macquarie may resell Endeavour Energy stake to Korean investors for $176 mn
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is reselling part of stakes in Endeavour Energy, one of Australia’s biggest public energy compan...
Sep 27, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Sec debuts in US solar farm debt deal with $67 mn underwriting
Samsung Securities Co. Ltd., a top South Korean brokerage company, has underwritten $66.7 million in senior debt to fund a solar power plant acquisiti...
Sep 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mirae Asset buys $48 mn mezzanine debt backed by FedEx-leased warehouses
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. invested 54 billion won ($48 million) last week in mezzanine debt secured on two warehouses leased to FedEx Co...
Sep 22, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)