Korea M&A Corporation

On January 1, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) launched the Global M&A Center to address the increase in global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), growing desire among Korean smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to pursue crossborder M&A transactions and the new government’s pledge to activate the M&A market in Korea. The Center will assist Korean companies pursuing small- to..

보호되어 있는 글입니다.

LG Chem has consolidated its position as a global power in car batteries, in a deal with carmaker General Motors for its eco-friendly vehicle, Volt. Samsung SDI is following up with its own major deal with BMW, a German premier carmaker. The two firms' contracts are different in scope and size, but it is clear that they both understand where their next cash cows lie. It is a foregone conclusion ..

A report Wednesday said Chinese authorities are preparing for the stock market listing of foreign companies next year, in comments that come as HSBC Holdings PLC says it is hoping to be among the first in line. HSBC Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Sandy Flockhart beats a drum marking the opening of a branch in China's Shandong province last month. Shanghai Vice Mayor Tu Guangshao, the city's top ec..

Today, CDC Corporation (CHINA) (Analyst Report) announced that CDC Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary has filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering (IPO) of 4.8 million American depositary shares (ADS) at an estimated price of $11.0- $13.0 range. Of this total, 4 million ADS will represent newly-issued Class A ordinary shares being offered for sale by CDC Softwa..

* Investment banks formally pitching for deal * $3 bln offer would be split between H and A shares * Offer would be one of the largest in HK this year * Hong Kong-listed shares fall 4 pct, track weakness in banks (Adds analyst quote in paragraph 6,7 share price movement) By Michael Flaherty and Clare Jim TOKYO/HONG KONG, July 8 (Reuters) - China Merchants Bank (3968.HK) plans to raise about $3 b..

UBS AG (UBSN.VX) on Thursday announced the appointment of Chi-Won Yoon as chairman and CEO of Asia Pacific, succeeding Rory Tapner, who is leaving the bank after 25 years. Yoon joined UBS in 1997 as Head of Equity Derivatives, becoming Head of Asia Equities in 2004, Head of Asia Pacific Equities in 2008, and Head of Equities and Fixed Income for the region earlier this year. Yoon inherits a fran..

Robeco, the asset manager wholly owned by Rabobank, plans to officially open a representative office in Seoul on August 1, and is in the process of hiring a person in the Korean market to help with client servicing and business development. Ken Park, a Korean native, will run the office, located in the Seoul Finance Center. He recently joined the asset manager after building a career in consulti..

American International Group Inc. (AIG) has mandated Morgan Stanley (MS) and Deutsche Bank AG (DB) as global coordinators for the upcoming initial public offering of its Asian life insurance unit, people familiar with the situation said Thursday. The spin-off of American International Assurance Co. through a public listing on an Asian stock exchange is part of AIG's efforts to repay a government..

Chinese banks extended 13.6 billion yuan (1.99 billion U.S. dollars), as well as 420 million U.S. dollars worth of loans for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) since the end of last Monday, a senior official with the national banking regulator said Tuesday. Cai Esheng, vice chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, told a forum on M&A that the loans would support domestic and foreign deal..

SouFun, China's top real estate website, is eyeing an initial public offering next year in Hong Kong or the United States if the global economy recovers, Chairman Vincent Mo said on Wednesday. He said SouFun would prefer to list in China, where its client base is concentrated, but the country's strict regulatory approval process stood in the way. "Hong Kong and the United States are our two main..

TOKYO -- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. said it has set the price for its new share offering that will raise up to 923 billion yen ($9.38 billion) due to strong demand from investors and optimism about its business strategy. Japan's third-largest bank by assets said last month it would raise capital by issuing 235 million new shares, including an over-allotment option of 15.3 million share..

SHENZHEN, China, June 16 (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), operator of China's largest instant messaging service, aims to list in China after regulators modify current rules, as it seeks to cash in on its big name in its home market. Hong Kong-listed Tencent, whose popular QQ service is practically synonymous with instant messaging in China, is currently registered as a Cayman Islands busi..

Japan regained its spot as the Asian-Pacific region's most active country in mergers and acquisitions in the first quarter, edging out China, which had upstaged Japan for most of last year. A steady stream of domestic consolidation is buoying deal activity in Japan as companies feel the effects of the country's worst postwar recession. From January to March, albeit in a period when the overall n..

BEIJING, Dec 26, 2008 (Asia In Focus via COMTEX) -- BACHF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The Shanghai branch of the INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA (ICBC), the BANK OF SHANGHAI and the SHANGHAI UNITED ASSET AND PROPERTY EXCHANGE (UAE) jointly launched 10 billion yuan ($US1.46 billion) worth of credit lines for enterprises' mergers and acquisitions (M&A). According to an agreemen..

China Investment Corp. Chairman Lou Jiwei said he wouldn’t “dare” invest the sovereign wealth fund’s money in foreign financial firms after losing $6 billion on stakes in Morgan Stanley and Blackstone Group LP. “I don’t dare to invest in financial institutions now,” Lou said today at a conference in Hong Kong. “The policies of the developed nations on these institutions are not clear. Until they..

Laura Lipscomb Federal Reserve Bank of New York May 2005 In conjunction with the Committee on the Global Financial System work group project on foreign direct investment in emerging market financial sectors, staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York examined markets for different products used to hedge risks associated with emerging markets, including credit default swaps, political risk ins..

South Korea's POSCO Engineering & Construction said on Thursday it planned a share sale worth a potential 1.2 trillion won ($1.1 billion), which may become the country's biggest initial public offering in two years. The construction company, which is 89.5 percent owned by the world's fourth-largest steel maker POSCO (005490.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), set an indicative price range for the sal..

SHANGHAI, April 14 (Reuters) - Zijin Mining Group (2899.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), China's second biggest gold miner, has set the indicative price range for its Shanghai IPO at 6.88 to 7.13 yuan per share, two sources familiar with the offer said on Monday. That means the company's local currency A shares will be sold in Shanghai at a premium of between 2.7 and 6.4 percent to Monday's HK$7.4..

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals (OncoMed) today announced a worldwide strategic alliance to discover, develop and market novel antibody therapeutics to target cancer stem cells which are believed to play a key role in the establishment, metastasis and recurrence of cancer. The alliance with GSK will be conducted through its Center of Excellencefor External Drug Discovery (CEEDD..

GCA Holdings Corp. shares surged as much as 17 percent, the stock's daily allowable gain, after the investment-advisory firm said it will acquire a U.S. company. The shares rose as much as 100,000 yen to 694,000 and finished the morning trading session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at 663,000. Tokyo-based GCA, the second-ranked Japanese adviser on mergers this year, will acquire closely held Savvi..

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..

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. are getting less than half the minimum fees typically charged for arranging a $3 billion Taiwan banking merger, three people familiar with the terms of the deal said. Goldman, the world's leading takeover adviser, accepted less than $1 million for advising state-backed Chang Hwa Commercial Bank on its union with T..

• Sustainable value creation is of prime interest to investors who seek to anticipate expectations revisions. • This report develops a systematic way to explain the factors behind a company’s economic moat. • We cover industry analysis, firm-specific analysis, and firm interaction. Investors should assume that CSFB is seeking or will seek investment banking or other business from the covered com..

MUMBAI: ICICI Bank will play a larger role in financing M&A deals for Indian companies looking abroad. This is, in fact, one of the reasons for the massive public issue just completed by the bank, according to Chanda Kochhar, deputy managing director, ICICI Bank. “With India Inc spending so much on global acquisitions, there is a need for banks like us to increase our balance sheet,” she said, s..

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Merger and acquisition deals in China involving foreign acquirers totaled 21.63 bln usd, with deals for retail and consumer-oriented businesses growing sharply with the easing of restrictions on foreign investment in the sector, The Standard reported, citing Thomson Financial. Many Western firms are also attracted to retailers as a play on China's rapidly growing middle clas..

Abstract 1. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Japan, which were extremely low in comparison to other advanced nations traditionally, has showed a dramatic increase over the past few years (Chart 1), largely owing to growth in Out-In M&A (foreign company's acquisitions of Japanese companies). In terms of the industrial distribution, Out-In M&A implemented in the finance, machinery and telecomm..