PEF leadership

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has sold its four undelivered drillships to a domestic private equity fund for a combined 1.04 trillion w...

South Korea’s SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, is set to raise up to 1 trillion won ($822.5 million)...

LS-Nikko Copper Co., the world’s second-largest electrolytic copper maker, is set to sell an 800 billion won ($670 million) stake in a joint v...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, will unveil its latest Galaxy model at next month’s Unpacked event – a ...

Chey Jae-won, the younger brother to SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, returned to the conglomerate’s leadership on Dec. 17, after an eight-year...

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

Samsung Electronics Co., in a surprise move, has merged its mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit, and replaced chief execut...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is looking for a new chief investment officer (CIO) as the term of current CIO Jang ...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Tuesday it has begun mass production of the industry’s smallest 1...

South Korea's telecom giant KT Corp., mid-sized builder Hoban Construction Co. and about 10 private equity firms have submitted letters of intent to...

KKR & Co. and three other private equity firms, shortlisted for SK E&S Co.'s new preferred shares worth 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion), are n...

South Korea's M&A market, which has enjoyed record levels of activity so far this year, is expected to remain buoyant for the remainder of the y...

Singapore's GIC, Affinity Equity Partners, Baring Private Equity and IMM Private Equity have taken the next step toward their long-delayed exit from...

UIWANG, Gyeonggi Province – Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., a South Korean luxury handbag maker, stresses one interesting number to its clients w...

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. has put on hold indefinitely its plan to sell up to a 49% stake in SK Geocentric Co., formerly known as SK Global Ch...

Singapore’s GIC, Canada's Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan (OTPP) and private equity firms, including Affinity Equity Partners, may need to endu...

London-based private equity firm Permira will maintain its focus on high-quality companies and sector leaders with strong growth potential as valuat...

Samsung Electronics Co. will expand the production capacity of foldable devices amid an unexpected global craze over its Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip ...

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...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has deepened its reliance on top-tier private equity firms during the prolonged pandemic situation, focusing on r...

South Korea's largest laundry service provider Cleantopia Co. was sold on Tuesday for about 190 billion won ($165 million) to Seoul-based JKL Partne...

KKR & Co., IMM Private Equity and Glenwood Private Equity are among the preliminary bidders for 2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) worth of new prefe...

Hoban Group, started as a small residential rental company in Gwangju in 1989, has now emerged as a major player in South Korea's M&A market, in...

Private equity firms (PEFs) have participated in one in every three buyout deals involving South Korean companies in the first six months of the yea...

CJ Cheiljedang Corp. may overtake Daesang Corp.’s leadership in Korea’s packaged kimchi market for the first time in history. According ...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest TV maker, will launch the much-anticipated QD-OLED TV in the first half of next year, while expan...

South Korea’s e-commerce platform TMON Inc., majority-owned by KKR & Co. and Anchor Equity Partners, will postpone its plans for initial p...

The bid to acquire a controlling stake in Hugel Inc., South Korea’s leading maker of botulinum toxin, more commonly known as botox, from US pr...

Private equity firms registered in South Korea posted their largest-ever amount of both investments and divestments in 2020 which were almost balanc...

South Korea's initial public offering market is gaining fresh momentum from high-profile listings such as mobile banking app KakaoBank and game deve...