Korea M&A Corporation

History is repeating itself in the private-equity business. Twenty years ago this week, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. won the historic battle for tobacco and cookies maker RJR Nabisco. What was then the largest leveraged buyout came to symbolize the frenzied deal-making of 1980s Wall Street, immortalized in the book "Barbarians at the Gate." RJR was among the least successful deals in KKR's 32-y..

This is the information memorandum of Korean bank which is owned by Lone star.

KKR is expected to buy Mengniu Modern Dairy, in which China's largest dairy company Mengniu has a stake. The company has five farms and 40,000 dairy cows across China's northern provinces, including a flagship farm in Mongolia. Mengniu Modern Dairy's headquarters is China's largest single farm, spread over nearly 3,000 acres at Ma'anshan, in the eastern province of Anhui, and stocked with 8,300 ..

Korea's biggest agency network, Cheil Worldwide, bought a 49% stake in London agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay today in a first step toward creating a micro-network that will open in New York next year. The goal for Cheil, Samsung Electronics' Seoul-based in-house ad agency, is to consolidate its role with Samsung as well as start building its own international business apart from its largest cl..

Asahi Breweries Ltd. and Suntory Ltd. approached the owners of Independent Liquor about a possible sale of the Australian and New Zealand drinks group, Dow Jones Newswires reported. Independent appointed UBS AG to consider the offers, which are not considered “knockout blows” at this stage, Dow Jones said, citing an unidentified person familiar with the situation. Independent is owned by buyout ..

Recent turmoil in global financial markets is making it clear that companies around the world will need to focus intently on competitiveness to attract capital. That is true for countries, too, as regulators try to create conditions that will give their economies an edge in the eyes of international investors. Korea is not immune from these competitive pressures. So several recent events, althou..