Advantage Partners, a Tokyo-based private equity firm raising its fourth fund, has agreed to buy the financial business of Japan’s fallen internet giant Livedoor.
Lone Star will not proceed with a planned lucrative exit from Korea Exchange Bank because of continuing investigations surrounding its investment in 2003.
Lone Star’s cofounder and chairman is thinking about terminating a $7.3 billion deal to sell its stake in Korea Exchange Bank because of widening probes into its 2003 purchase. Local prosecutors have indicted the bank and Lone Star on stock manipulation charges.
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The specter of time is haunting private equity real estate, as every stage of the investment process is now likely to take longer than before.
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US investment group Lone Star has pulled its planned exit from Korea Exchange Bank following continuing investigations into its investment in 2003.
A Korean court today issued warrants to arrest US-based Ellis Short and Michael Thompson on alleged stock manipulation charges. The warrants came through after prosecutors failed in their applications twice before.
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