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September 02, 2019
SK Holdings hands over SK Biotek stake to US subsidiary

SK Holdings said Sept. 2 that it has handed over its entire stake in SK Biotek to its US subsidiary Alchemy Acquisition in exchange for new shares worth 438.7 billion won ($361 million). The transaction took place on Aug. 30, immediately after board approval. Its decision reduced SK Holdings’ di...
August 30, 2019
Line to merge online recruiting subsidiary

Line Corp., a Japanese subsidiary of Naver Inc., plans to merge Line Part Time Job, Line's wholly-owned business dedicated to online recruiting for part-time jobs, by November this year, according to the Korean internet giant on Aug. 30. Line gained approval from its board of directors the same da...
August 27, 2019
Hansol walks away from W1tr Tailim acquisition deal

Seoul-based Hansol Paper walked away from an acquisition bid for corrugated box maker Tailim Packaging and cardboard maker Tailim Paper, the company revealed in an Aug. 27 disclosure. “Contemplating on the Tailim acquisition deal as its potential bidder, we decided not to join the final bidding r...
August 26, 2019
Samsung Active Asset drops merger plan with Franklin Templeton unit

Samsung Active Asset Management said on Aug. 26 that it had dropped its merger plan with Franklin Templeton Investment Trust Management to create new joint venture Samsung Franklin Templeton in South Korea under a bilateral agreement. The two companies cited common ground in the face of changing m...
August 26, 2019
Inbound M&As in S. Korea on rise in H1: FTC

The volume of inbound mergers and acquisitions in South Korea approved by its antitrust body have been on the rise in the first half of 2019, data showed Aug. 26. Foreign companies’ cross-border M&A transactions involving Korean entities came to a combined 3.7 trillion won ($3.04 billion) in the ...
August 23, 2019
Lotte Chemical to merge with Lotte Advanced Materials

Lotte Chemical said in a regulatory filing on Aug. 22 that its management had agreed to merge with wholly owned subsidiary Lotte Advanced Materials. Seoul-based Lotte Chemical’s board of directors agreed on a planned market extension merger between two subsidiaries of the Korean-Japanese Lotte c...
August 20, 2019
Genexine, ToolGen cancel merger plan on shareholder opposition

South Korean biopharmaceutical drugmaker Genexine and gene-editing company ToolGen said Aug. 20 in respective regulatory filings that they had dropped plans for a 1:1.2 merger to create ToolGenexine due to shareholder opposition. The total value of stakes held by dissenting shareholders from b...
August 16, 2019
Majesty Golf Korea looks to buy remaining 49% stake in Majesty Golf

South Korea’s private equity firm Orchestra Private Equity said Aug. 15 that its portfolio firm Majesty Golf Korea is looking to buy a 49 percent stake in Majesty Golf, a Japanese company that makes high-end golf equipment, for 2.1 billion yen ($19.7 million) from retail shareholders by September....
August 16, 2019
LG H&H closes $125m acquisition of New Avon

Seoul-based LG Household & Health Care said on Aug. 16 that it had closed a stake purchase deal in US beauty and personal care product maker New Avon for $125 million in cash. Under the transaction, LG H&H had bought New Avon’s entirety -- 1 million shares from US private equity Cerberus Capita...
August 14, 2019
Dongwha Enterprise acquires battery electrolyte firm Panax Etec

South Korea’s wood material maker Dongwha Enterprise said Aug. 14 that it has bought an 89.63 percent stake in battery electrolyte maker Panax Etec, valuing the firm at 131.5 billion won ($108.4 million). Dongwha paid 117.9 billion won to acquire the stake from Seoul-based private equity firms ...
August 14, 2019
Krafton invests w10b in Neptune

Game developer Neptune’s shares soared 20 percent in morning trading on Aug. 14 following the news that it has received funding worth 10 billion won ($8.24 million) from Krafton Game Union, formerly known as Bluehole. The South Korean company said in a regulatory filing that Krafton has decided t...
August 13, 2019
Korean brokerages acquire Hilton’s hotel in Vienna

Three Korean brokerage firms have bought a hotel in Vienna, Austria, for 370 million euros ($414 million), according to industry sources on Aug. 13. Seoul-based real estate-focused Mastern Investment Management , acting on behalf of Meritz Securities, Hana Financial Investment and NH Investment ...
August 12, 2019
SKC, Kolon Industries mull sale of polyimide film maker JV

South Korean chemical product makers SKC and Kolon Industries said on Aug. 12 that they are still considering selling their respective shares in a polyimide film maker joint venture SKC Kolon PI , without elaborating on details. The two companies are due to come up with more details by Novem...
August 07, 2019
Toss, IMM join bid to buy LG Uplus’ PG operation

Viva Republica, a South Korean financial technology unicorn that operates money-transfer platform Toss, and Seoul-based IMM Private Equity have joined the preliminary bid to buy LG Uplus ’ payment gateway operation, industry sources said Aug. 6. Viva Republica and IMM are two of five bidders in...
August 05, 2019
Coway stake buyers short-listed

Potential buyers of water purifier rental firm Coway have been short-listed to SK Networks , a Haier-led consortium and US private equity firms Carlyle Group and Bain Capital, according to industry sources on Aug. 5. Up for grabs is a stake of 25.08 percent in Coway, which market watchers have...

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