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..

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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..

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. is mulling over a plan to acquire Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Corp., according to reports from Reuters and others. Both DRAM suppliers are losing money amid the memory downturn, but Powerchip is in a bad position. Powerchip (Hsinchu) reported that total revenue reached NT$14.97 billion ($448.3 million) in Q3, with an after-tax net loss of NT$15..

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Itochu Corp., an Osaka, Japan-based trading company, will acquire a 20 percent stake in Ting Hsin Group, a China-based food processor, for 70 billion yen ($730 million), Nikkei English News reported, without saying where it got the information. The acquisition gives Itochu a foothold in the expanding processed-food market in China, which is forecast to grow by 30 percent t..

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SAMICK MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CO., LTD is proud to announce that it has acquired ED. SEILER Pianofortefabrik GmbH & Co. KG effective November 1, 2008. ED. SEILER Pianofortefabrik GmbH & Co. KG is now a wholly owned subsidiary of SAMICK MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CO., LTD. A new management team for SEILER has been appointed, and SEILER pianos will continue to be manufactured in Germany in the same factorie..

TOKYO:Sanyo Electric Co. is largely in agreement with a bid by Panasonic Corp. to take a majority stake in the company and thereby become Japan's largest electronics manufacturer, a press report said Sunday. Panasonic president Fumio Otsubo and Sanyo president Seiichiro Sano reached the "broad agreement" last month, public broadcaster NHK without naming its sources. Reports of Panasonic's plan t..

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China's largest soft drinks maker, Wahaha, said Monday that it is interested in buying the dairy company at the origin of a nationwide scandal over contaminated milk. A Wahaha spokesman said Wahaha Group Chairman Zong Qinhou had expressed an interest in taking over Sanlu Group, the dairy firm first found to be selling melamine-contaminated products. It followed comments by Zong reported Monday i..

Banco Santander SA is in talks to buy Sovereign Bancorp Inc., the largest remaining U.S. savings and loan, in what would be the third acquisition of a troubled lender in three months by Spain's biggest bank. Santander ``confirms that it's in talks over the said acquisition,'' the Santander, Spain-based bank said today in a regulatory filing. Sovereign was in ``advanced discussions'' with Santand..

Morgan Stanley soared 85 percent in New York trading after the firm sealed its $9 billion investment from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., giving the Japanese bank preferred stock paying a 10 percent dividend. Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan's biggest lender, will get 21 percent of the New York-based company as previously agreed, the firms said today in a joint statement. Terms were renegotiated becau..

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TOKYO, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is mulling merging its securities unit, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., with U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley's Japanese securities unit, Kyodo News Agency reported Friday. The company's merger with Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., if realized, will make one of the largest wholesale securities service firms in Japan, whose busin..

Blackstone Group(BX Quote - Cramer on BX - Stock Picks) completed its first Chinese acquisition, paying as much as $600 million for a stake in specialty chemicals maker China National BlueStar, Bloomberg reports. Buyout firm Blackstone agreed in September 2007 to buy a 20% stake from state- owned China National Chemical, which will own the rest of BlueStar. The deal's completion may be announced..

Crossing T’s and dotting I’s, this week there were a couple news briefs from the M&A front: Sony BMG: After months of rumors, Sony (SNE) announced August 5th that they’d reached an agreement to buy partner Bertelsmann’s fifty percent stake in their joint Sony BMG music label. Regulators in Europe approved the deal a few weeks ago and it’s now officially complete. The world’s second largest recor..

A potential acquisition of Wachovia Corp. by Wells Fargo & Co. would create the largest bank in the United States, surpassing Bank of America for that distinction. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) has $609 billion in assets, $418 billion in net loans, $339 billion in deposits, $151 billion in mutual fund assets under management and 3,327 branches in 24 states. Charlotte, N.C.-based Wac..

The US Treasury on Friday rushed to the aid of ailing money market funds, saying it would guarantee the holdings of funds as it attempted to prevent the spillover of the financial crisis to the $3,400bn (€2,360bn; £1,850bn) US business. In establishing the temporary guarantee programme for the US money market mutual fund industry, the Treasury tapped the Exchange Stabilisation Fund, which was es..

Bank of China on Thursday agreed to acquire a 20 per cent stake in a French financial services company controlled by a leading member of the Rothschild family, a sign that Chinese financial institutions are willing to invest in western assets despite the current state of the market. Confirming an earlier report by FT.com, the bank said in a statement that it would pay Rmb2.2bn (€236m, $330m) for..

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Chapter 11 Reorganization Under the Bankruptcy Code The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing (generally) for reorganization, usually involving a corporation or partnership. (A chapter 11 debtor usually proposes a plan of reorganization to keep its business alive and pay creditors over time. People in business or individuals can also seek relief in chapter 11.) a. Background b. How Chapter 11..

SanDisk Corp., the world's largest maker of memory cards used in digital cameras, surged the most in more than eight years in Nasdaq trading after Samsung Electronics Co. said it may buy the U.S. company. SanDisk jumped $4.18, or 31 percent, to $17.64 at 4 p.m. on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the biggest gain since January 2000. Samsung, the world's second-largest chipmaker, said today it is conside..

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Malaysian sharia lender Bank Islam (BIMB.KL: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in on the hunt for merger and acquisition opportunities at home and in neighbouring Indonesia to boost its market share, its managing director said on Wednesday. Bank Islam, Malaysia's oldest sharia lender which began business in 1983, is trying to claw back market share after heav..

Sep 01, 2008 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- SGIOF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Japan-based pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co and US-based Sciele Pharma have signed a definitive agreement under which Shionogi will make a cash tender offer for Sciele shares and subsequently acquire Sciele by executing a cash merger. Under the terms of the agreement and pursuant to a tender offer, Shiono..

Baird, the US-based investment bank and asset manager, is to expand its China business in a move that highlights the growing opportunities for mid-sized banks seeking to service deal activity involving mid-market Asian companies. Milwaukee-based Baird will on Monday announce the launch of investment banking operations in Asia with the hiring of Anthony Yan-Hong Siu, a former senior banker at Sta..