SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Sang-jo, the director of the Fair Trade Commission, in response to American activist fund Elliott Management Corp.’s call to restructure Hyundai Motor Group, stated that “following such demands would be going against antitrust laws.” Kim also said that Elliott’s demands were “unfair” during the Asia Future Enterprise Forum [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Elliott Advisors Ltd., a unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp., said Wednesday it has acquired more than US$1 billion worth of stocks in three major affiliates of Hyundai Motor Group, and asked for more efforts to improve corporate governance by the group. The three affiliates are [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will “carefully consider” a proposal by U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management that urged the South Korean tech giant to split into two companies to increase the value of shareholders. Elliott, which fought in 2015 against a merger of two Samsung affiliates but lost, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea bizwire) – Paul Singer, CEO of Elliott Management, released an old photo of himself taken when he visited Seoul World Cup Stadium in 2002 while the co-host country was astonishing the world. With red shirts emblazoned with the “Be The Reds” slogan, he posed in front of the stadium together with his [...]
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, 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 [...]
“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, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean institutional investors own more than 20 percent of Samsung C&T, which could serve as the swing vote on its high-stakes fight with a U.S. hedge fund over a controversial merger plan, market sources said Tuesday. The state-run National Pension Service (NPS), the biggest institutional investor in South Korea, and [...]