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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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on Sunday   it was still in talks with South Korea's Kookmin Bank   060000.KS to sell Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) 004940.KS but   may decide to scrap a preliminary deal reached in May.
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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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Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. , a struggling subprime mortgage lender, said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Lone Star for $400 million.
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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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Lone Star Funds, a private equity firm seeking to abandon its $400 million purchase of Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co , said on Tuesday it extended its tender offer to buy the struggling subprime mortgage lender to September 12.
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South Korea has found illegal aspects in  the 2003 sale of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to U.S. fund Lone  Star, a senior prosecutor said on Thursday, which may  eventually lead the courts to declare the deal void.
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Prosecutors indicted a Korean bank and a Belgium-based holding company owned by Lone Star Funds, an American private equity group, on charges of stock price manipulation in connection with Lone StarÂs 2003 acquisition of the bank. Lone StarÂs vice chairman, Ellis Short, and its general counsel, Michael Thomson, already face charges of spreading false information to weaken the stock price of the Korea Exchange BankÂs credit card unit before it was bought by Lone Star. The new charges are against the bank and LSF-KEB Holdings, a paper company based in Brussels that Lone Star set up in 2003 to take over the bank, according to Chae Dong-wook, a senior prosecutor. Officials of the bank and other Lone Star officials declined to comment.
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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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LONDON/SEOUL  - HSBC  has agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB)  from U.S. private equity firm Lone Star for about $6.3 billion in cash to boost its profile in Asia's third-largest banking market.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star is close to  terminating its $7.3 billion deal to sell Korea Exchange Bank  (004940.KS) to Kookmin Bank (060000.KS), as a prosecutor  investigation made the sale nearly impossible, the Financial  Times reported on Wednesday.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on Sunday  it was still in talks with South Korea's Kookmin Bank  (060000.KS) to sell Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) (004940.KS) but  may decide to scrap a preliminary deal reached in May.
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Intelsat is to be sold to four private  equity firms for $3.1 billion, the world's second-largest  satellite operator said 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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TXU Corp., Texas' largest electricity producer, said Monday it has agreed to be sold to a group of private-equity firms for about $45 billion including debt in what would be the largest private buyout in U.S. corporate history if shareholders go along.
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AMSTERDAM  - Global food retailer Royal Ahold NV said Thursday it will sell two of its U.S. grocery chains, BI-LO and Bruno's, to Dallas-based Lone Star Funds for &#36;560 million US in cash.
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South Korea's National Pension Service is interested in buying a 51 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) from U.S. investment firm Lone Star, the fund's chief investment officer told Reuters on Tuesday.