SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Major banking group Hana Financial Group said Monday that it plans to complete a merger between its two banking units — Hana Bank and Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) — before October as KEB’s labor union has agreed on the proposed merger. Hana Financial has been pushing for the merger since its [...]
“We expect that NPS — entrusted with the hard-earned capital of ordinary Koreans — will choose to make the proper financial decision to oppose these wholly unfair takeover proposals.” “The undeniable evidence of this outpouring of opposition is tens of millions of shares which have been confirmed as a vote against and/or provided as proxies [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national pension fund operator on Friday decided its official stance on a merger between key subsidiaries of Samsung Group, the country’s leading family-controlled conglomerate, but won’t disclose what the stance is for the time being, officials said. But sources say that the operator decided to support the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cosmetic maker Tonymoly almost doubled its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, but erased part of its earlier gains over a mixed outlook on its bid to tap deeper into China as a new growth engine beyond the saturated domestic market. Its shares opened trade at 64,000 [...]
Seoul, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Corporate Governance Service (KCGS) has advised the National Pension Service (NPS) to oppose the merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries. According to a statement released by the financial investment industry on July 8, the KCGS recently submitted a report suggesting that the NPS should oppose the proposed [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – As Samsung Group and U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management are struggling over the merger between Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T, some are raising concern that Korean firms’ management rights should be defended from attacks by international hedge funds. They say that as the Korean economy has matured and its financial markets are [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – After the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released its report opposing the merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries, the de facto holding company of the Samsung Group, Korean stock companies criticized faults in the advisory report one after another. On July 6, Korea Investment and Securities assumed [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Suh Kyung-bae, chief of South Korea’s top cosmetics maker AmorePacific Group, has become the country’s richest man in stock value, overtaking former No. 1 Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, market data showed Thursday. Stocks owned by Suh were valued at 12.8 trillion won (US$11.4 billion) as of Thursday, while [...]
“It is quite preposterous to win a case over Samsung in Korea. No one can win over Samsung in Korea and it was the expected result.” – Daum ID “cesiu****” “Elliott is very clever. It sued Samsung just to make a case for ISD. In the ISD, Samsung cannot be assured of winning.” – Naver [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO signed a Share Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) with the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”) of Saudi Arabia for sale of POSCO E&C shares. The transaction brings in KRW1.24 trillion of foreign investment into Korea. On June 15, 2015, POSCO Chairman Kwon Oh-joon and PIF Secretary General Abdulrahman M. Al Mofadhi [...]