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Private equity Korea’s Tmax Group buys back software developer for $612 mn

South Korea’s Tmax Group bought back the software making unit it had sold to a local private equity firm two years ago to try to boost synergy...

Mergers & Acquisitions SkyLake offers to fully take over BusinessOn; stock rallies

Seoul-based private equity firm SkyLake Equity Partners has offered to buy the remaining shares of BusinessOn Communication Co., South Korea’s...

Artificial intelligence DeepX attracts $80 mn new investment

DeepX, South Korea's homegrown neural network and AI chip developer, announced on Friday that it finalized attracting an investment of 110 billion w...

Private equity MBK eyes stake in Korean software developer Tmaxsoft

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is eyeing shares of South Korean enterprise software developer Tmaxsoft Co. around two years aft...

Private equity Tmax Group to draw more than $572 mn to buy back Tmaxsoft

South Korea's leading software company Tmax Group is set to draw at least 750 billion won ($572.3 million) and a maximum of 1 trillion won from Seou...

Mergers & Acquisitions MBK to acquire Korea’s top FCCL maker NexFlex for $407 mn

MBK Partners agreed to buy NexFlex Co., South Korea’s top flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL) producer, as the leading Northeast Asian priva...

Mergers & Acquisitions UK's Croda to buy Korean bio materials maker for $286 mn

Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...

Mergers & Acquisitions Korea PE firms to buy FCCL maker NexFlex at $463 mn

South Korean private equity firms are set to take over NexFlex Co., the country’s largest manufacturer of flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL...

Mergers & Acquisitions Smartphone material maker NexFlex draws bidders

NexFlex Co., South Korea's largest manufacturer of flexible copper clad laminates (FCCLs) used for smartphones, has drawn around half a dozen prelim...

Mergers & Acquisitions Fried chicken chain BHC to pay $255 mn for Outback Steakhouse Korea

South Korea’s No. 2 fried chicken brand BHC Group is set to spend $255 million to acquire the Korean operations of Outback Steakhouse, an Aust...

M&As Fried chicken chain BHC set to acquire Outback Steakhouse Korea

South Korea’s second-largest fried chicken brand BHC Group has been named the preferred negotiator to acquire a 100% stake in the Korean opera...

Doosan Group Doosan Group inks sale of copper foil maker to PEF SkyLake for $588 mn

Doosan Group has agreed to sell Doosan Solus Co. Ltd., a copper foil and OLED materials maker, to South Korean private equity firm SkyLake Investment ...