Lone Star sells KEB stake, S.Korean firms
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U.S. private equity house Lone Star said on Friday it sold a stake in Korea Exchange Bank as well as two domestic firms for a total of $2.3 billion, speeding up disposals of controversial South Korean investments.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.   said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by a group led  by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.   and Texas Pacific Group  for $31.8 billion in the  largest leveraged buyout in history.
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TXU Corp.  said it agreed to be acquired  by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $45  billion including debt.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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HSBC  , Europe's biggest bank, said on Monday it had agreed to buy a 51.02 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank , the sixth largest bank in Korea, for about $6.3 billion cash.
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A South Korean securities firm partly  owned by billionaire financier George Soros has broken off  talks to buy SK Securities, knocking its smaller rival's shares  down by over 12 percent on Monday.
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LONDON, November 22  - Dutch banking and insurance company, ING Group (INN.ETR), has agreed to sell its Baring Asset Management division in two separate deals, for collective net gains of about â¬250 million.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 23 Â Lone Star Funds, the private equity firm based in Dallas, canceled an agreement to sell its controlling stake in Korea Exchange Bank to Kookmin Bank, South KoreaÂs biggest lender, citing Âpolitically motivatedÂ prosecutors who have been investigating the deal.
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LONDON/SEOUL  - HSBC agreed to buy 51 percent of Korea Exchange Bank from private equity firm Lone Star for $6.3 billion, in a deal that could propel the UK-based bank into the top ranks of Asia's third-largest banking market.
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Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co.  , a struggling subprime mortgage lender, has agreed to  be acquired by private equity firm Lone Star for $400 million,  the companies said on Monday.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on  Thursday it was ending an agreement to sell Korea Exchange Bank  (004940.KS) to Kookmin Bank (060000.KS) in a $7.3 billion deal,  which has been subject to a long-running prosecutor probe.
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Singaporesâs PSA gained a much-sought foothhold in Hong Kong with an agreement to buy a stake in Asia Container Terminals, a port operator in the worldâs busiest container hub, from Sun Hung Kai Properties.
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The German state has decided to sell its 38-percent stake in the distressed bank IKB, one of those hit hard by the US home loan debacle, a press report said Wednesday.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for $31.8 billion in the largest leveraged buyout in history.
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US billionaire Carl Icahn has sold most of his stake in Korean tobacco and ginseng firm KT&G, reports say.
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Dutch retailer Ahold said on Thursday  it had agreed to sell its Bruno's and BI-LO retail chains in  the United States to Lone Star Funds for $660 million, which is  slightly below market expectations.
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South Korea's tax tribunal ruled in favor of the National Tax Office's decision to impose taxes on Lone Star related to the purchase of an office building, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.