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...Spencer Knibbe, founder and managing partner at recruiting firm MBK Search, says the fear is centred around the tech and residential lending sectors....
...Partners leads group in talks to take HK-listed Car Inc. private (Reuters)...
...MBK Partners, the South Korean private equity group, has struck a deal to buy Asia-Pacific assets from Godiva, the Turkish-owned Belgian chocolatier....
...The eventual winner of the $1bn chocolate tussle was MBK Partners which will permanently license the Godiva brand for use in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, take control of the original factory...
...The first two, facing serious shareholder revolts, have now put themselves in the hands of private equity — Asatsu to Bain Capital and Kuroda to MBK....
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...A mooted $1.4bn buyout of one of Japan’s biggest golf course owners, Accordia Golf, by South Korea’s MBK Partners would have faced a challenge in the form of many elderly players in Japan abandoning the...
...ING in 2013 sold its Korean life insurance unit to the country’s largest private equity group MBK Partners for Won1.84tn....
...Comcast is buying a 51 per cent stake in USJ from Goldman Sachs, MBK Partners and other members of the consortium that, in 2009, bought the struggling theme park operator for Y111.2bn just two years after...
...This will apparently have the effect of reducing the sale price to $5bn, making the subsidiary cheaper for would-be purchasers such as MBK Partners, Carlyle and KKR....
...MBK said it does not expect any trouble in winning that approval in Korea....
...MBK Arup Sustainable Projects Limited (Masp), a joint venture between Mitsui, the Japanese trading house, and Arup, the engineering consultancy, has linked up with Conductix-Wampfler, a subsidiary of Delachaux...
...Sensing a shift in mood, Michael Kim and Kwun Jun-il left Carlyle to set up domestic private equity companies: MBK Partners and Actium....
...buyer for close to £140m, making it the UK’s most expensive home - South Korea halts the sale of a 57 per cnet stake in Woori for a second time after attracting only one bid, from private equity group MBK...
...Morgan Stanley advised MBK Partners....
...Private equity groups including Carlyle and MBK Partners, and foreign investors such as Macquarie and MetLife, are reportedly among the 11 bidders....
...Should the laws be amended, it would be good news for other foreign investors in Taiwan’s cable TV industry, which include Australian bank Macquarie and Korea’s MBK Partners....
...MBK, a South Korean private equity firm, is pursuing the deal, while ANZ has voiced its interest. HSBC has ruled itself out and Standard Chartered has played down bid speculation....
...However, MBK, a local private equity group, is pursuing the deal. Of the international contenders, ANZ has voiced its interest but appears to be leaning towards buying an Indonesian bank....
...South Korea’s MBK is now pursuing the deal and its fate could offer clues about whether sentiment towards private equity is changing....
...Goldman and its partners MBK, the South Korean private equity group, and management are paying an enterprise value of $1.4bn – not quite the magnitude of 2007 buyouts....
...First-round offers have rolled in from Lotte Group, a local retail conglomerate seen as one of the stronger bidders, as well as Japanese brewers and private equity firms including MBK Partners and Affinity...
...MBK and Macquarie’s recent joint $3.2bn acquisition of C&M in Korea was funded by Shinhan Bank....
...He said: “Nothing has been signed but it appears MBK is now the firm favourite.”...
...Carlyle bid $6.5bn for Advanced Semiconductor Engineering while MBK Partners, a Seoul-based start-up, burst on to the scene with a $1.5bn buy-out of China Network Systems....
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