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League table UBS tops Korea’s buyout deal advisory in Q1 thanks to Lotte

UBS Group AG, the frontrunner in South Korea's M&A market last year, retained the top position in the country's buyout advisory market in the fi...

Pension funds CPPIB invests in Seoul office building for rental housing conversion

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and South Korean property developer MGRV have jointly acquired the headquarters of a domestic women...

Mergers & Acquisitions Affinity Equity set to close $1.1 bn purchase of Lotte Rental

Affinity Equity Partners said on Friday that it will sign a definitive agreement on March 11 with Lotte Group to acquire a 56.2% stake in South Kore...

Real estate CPPIB to enter South Korean rental housing market

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), one of the world’s top 10 global pension fund managers, is joining other foreign asset manag...

Mergers & Acquisitions Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...

Private equity Affinity to transform top Korean car rental firms into mobility service providers

Affinity Equity Partners aims to develop leading South Korean car rental companies into mobility service providers to create additional profitabilit...

Private equity Hong Kong-based PEF Affinity Equity to acquire control of Lotte Rental

Affinity Equity Partners, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, will acquire a controlling stake in South Korea’s No. 1 car rental and leasing co...

Banking & Finance Lotte Card launches long-term rental car card in Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Card Co. launched a long-term car rental exclusive card in Vietnam to expand its presence in the local market.Its Vietnamese s...

Private equity Affinity Equity bets big on Korea's car rental market

The car rental business resembles financial services. Buying cars with borrowed money, renting them out and eventually selling them to used car de...

Automobiles Slowing economy creates opportunity for S. Korean used car sellers

South Korea’s used car sellers hope to take advantage of the slowing economic growth at home and abroad to expand their market shares.Lotte Re...

Automobiles Lotte Rental establishes UAE subsidiary

South Korea's Lotte Rental Co. said on Thursday that it established an overseas subsidiary in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to boost the expo...

Future mobility Kakao Mobility launches overseas car rental service

South Korean mobility platform Kakao Mobility said on Monday that it launched an overseas car rental service accessible through its Kakao T app.The ...

Automobiles Lotte Rental to service Vietnam's individual long-term rental

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea's largest car rental firm, announced on Monday that it will enter Vietnam's individual long-term car rental market in ...

Real estate SK D&D, Habyt to cooperate for residential business

SK D&D Co., a real estate unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the...

Automobiles Lotte Rental launches driver-inclusive rental service in Vietnam

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea's largest car rental firm, announced on Monday that it has launched a "Vietnam Driver-inclusive Rental Car."The servic...

Mergers & Acquisitions SK Networks prepares to put SK Rent-a-Car on market

SK Networks Co. is preparing to put SK Rent-a-Car Co. on the market in a deal worth an estimated 600 billion won ($448 million) as part of efforts t...

Private equity Korean rental platforms become headache for PE investors

South Korean rental platforms have become a headache for private equity firms, with their declining profits and dim business outlooks making them ha...

Batteries SK Ecoplant, TES to enter Japan’s battery recycling market

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management firm, said on Tuesday it is entering Japan’s battery recycling m...

Artificial intelligence SK Networks looks to triple operating profit by 2026 with AI

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading and rental company actively investing in tech firms in recent years, will step up its efforts to transform i...

Automobiles Lotte Rental, KB Capital to co-work for car rental

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea's largest car rental firm, has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the domestic financial comp...

Pension funds NPS picks tech, electronics as its favorite local stocks in 2023

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, picked information tech, electric and electronic s...

Real estate WeWork’s downsizing plan in Korea to hit office market

Coworking space provider WeWork Inc. plans to downsize its business in South Korea, according to banking sources on Sunday. Market watchers say inve...

Automobiles Lotte Rental drops plan to enter Korea’s secondhand car sales market

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea’s largest car rental firm, has dropped its plan to enter the domestic used car sales market. Instead, it will st...

Automobiles Lotte Rental CEO becomes first owner of Kia EV9

The first owner of Kia Corp.'s EV9 large electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) is Mr. Choi Jin-hwan, President and CEO of Lotte Rental, South Korea'...

Corporate investment SK Networks to expand investment in tech firms for future growth

SK Networks Co., the general trading and rental arm of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, will expand direct funding for tech ...

Electric vehicles SK Networks completes acquisition of local EV charging platform operator

SK Networks Co., a South Korean general trading firm, said on Jan. 3 it has completed the acquisition of SS Charger Co., a leading electric car char...

Korean chipmakers Is semiconductor chip rental doable?: Samsung says yes

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is looking to launch a high-end memory chip rental service as its new business ...

Mergers & Acquisitions Hyundai Home Shopping to divest rental unit for $107 mn

Hyundai Home Shopping Network Corp., a TV shopping channel operator owned by South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Dec. 26 it will s...

Korean startups Stayfolio receives $7.7 mn in Series A investment

South Korea's property-rental platform Stayfolio announced on Wednesday that it has won 10 billion won ($7.7 million) worth of additional investment...

Automobiles SK Car Rental acquires ISO 45001 for safety, health management system

SK Car Rental said on Wednesday that it has obtained the safety and health management system (ISO45001) certification from the British Standards Ins...