Korea M&A Corporation

American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. (NYSE:AOB), a leading manufacturer and distributor of plant-based pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products, announced Thursday that it has completed the acquisition of Guangxi Boke Pharmaceutical Company Limited. The all-cash acquisition, valued at US$36.5 million, was expected by the company to be immediately accretive to earnings. Based in Nanning, Guang..

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sixty-seven venture-backed mergers and acquisitions were completed in the third quarter of 2007, 34 of which had disclosed values totaling $7.7 billion, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Financial and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). This dollar volume represents a 104 percent increase from the same quarter last year when 41 d..

When Park Hyeon-joo, chairman of Mirae Asset Financial Group, introduced South Korea's first retail mutual fund in December 1998, the country was mired in the Asian financial crisis. Only a year had passed since the government had agreed to bring strict discipline to its financial sector and rein in profligate industrial conglomerates, in return for a multibillion-dollar bailout from the Interna..

TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Mitsui Fudosan Co (8801.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it would buy a 33.16 percent stake in Imperial Hotel Ltd (9708.T: Quote, Profile, Research) for 86.2 billion yen ($748.2 million), fuelling further competition in the Tokyo hotel market. Mitsui Fudosan will buy 9.85 million shares of Imperial Hotel, Japan's fifth-largest domestic hotel chain operator, ..

TOKYO JAPAN, September 26, 2007 ----- TDK Corporation (TDK) announced that today it concluded an agreement with Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (Alps) regarding the transfer of Alps' equipment and intellectual property rights such as patents and know-how concerning its HDD head business. The agreement was approved by both companies' boards of directors and is the culmination of negotiations following a ..

Sydney, Sep 24, 2007 (RWE via COMTEX) -- AXAPF | charts | news | PowerRating -- (RWE Australian Business News) AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd (ASX:AXA) and its Malaysian joint venture partner, AFFIN Holdings, have been granted approval from Bank Negara Malaysia to start negotiations with a view to the possible acquisition of Malaysian Assurance Alliance Berhad (MAA). This approval is required to ..