SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s verdict that Samsung C&T has no obligation to pay U.S.-based hedge fund Elliott some 26.7 billion won (US$19.3 million) in delayed interests over the 2015 merger of two Samsung units. The Seoul High Court dismissed an appeal filed by the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Friday dismissed a suit filed by U.S.-based hedge fund Elliott seeking some 26.7 billion won (US$20.2 million) in delayed interest from Samsung C&T as a fallout of the 2015 merger of two Samsung units. Elliott, which owned a 7 percent stake in Samsung C&T, led a [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has filed a suit to reverse an international tribunal’s order to pay nearly US$100 million in damages to hedge fund Elliott Investment Management in a dispute stemming from the controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung Group affiliates, officials said Tuesday. Last month, the Permanent Court of Arbitration [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has faced significant setbacks in the Korea v. Elliott Investment Management investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) case. According to a press release titled “Decision on the Elliott International Investment Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Case” by the justice ministry on Friday, which provides a summary of the June 20 judgment, [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group on Monday withdrew a key spinoff merger plan in a setback to its corporate restructuring amid stepped-up opposition campaigns by some investors. The decision comes as global hedge fund Elliott and proxy advisers such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) continued to take issue with the carmaker’s [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Elliott Advisors Ltd., a unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp., on Friday reiterated its demand for a holding company structure for Hyundai Motor Group. In a statement, the U.S. fund called on the Korean automotive group to merge Hyundai Motor Co. and Hyundai Mobis Co. into [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. hedge fund Elliott Associates denied allegations Friday over a possible breach of local disclosure rules regarding Samsung C&T Corp., stressing a series of processes for its Samsung stake purchase were “perfectly legal.” Elliott made the claim ahead of a prosecution probe on suspicions that it illegally “parked” its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s financial authorities on Wednesday referred U.S. hedge fund Elliott Associates to state prosecutors for allegedly violating local disclosure rules when it tried to prevent a merger of two Samsung Group affiliates last year. The Securities and Futures Commission said Elliott abused the total return swap (TRS) system to [...]
Seoul, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) - It has been reported that Elliott Management, an American hedge fund that filed lawsuits opposing the merger of Samsung C&T Corporation and Cheil Industries Inc., has returned its stockholder certificates for Samsung C&T Corporation, Samsung SDI and Samsung Fire Insurance to the Korea Securities Depository (KSD). Since the proposal to merge Samsung C&T [...]
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