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Korea Zinc drops $1.8 bn rights issue to regain shareholder support
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Korea Zinc Chair Choi Yun-birm at a press conference on Nov. 13, 2024 to announce the cancellation of the rights…
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MBK Partners tipped to win battle for control of Korea Zinc
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MBK Partners was established in 2005 A consortium led by North Asia-focused buyout firm MBK Partners edges closer to winning…
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Regulator puts brakes on Korea Zinc’s $1.8 bn rights issues
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Financial Supervisory Service’s headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has put the brakes on Korea Zinc…
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MBK’s Korea Zinc bid aimed at corporate governance, shareholder value
in NewsMBK Partners founder and Chairman Michael ByungJu Kim MBK Partners’ takeover bid for Korea Zinc Inc. aims to improve corporate…
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Korea Zinc to raise $1.8 bn in rights issues amid face-off with MBK
in NewsKorea Zinc’s senior engineers held a press conference to protest MBK’s takeover attempt on Sept. 24, 2024 Korea Zinc Inc.…
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Korea Zinc, MBK face proxy war for the zinc smelter
in NewsKorea Zinc’s smelter in Ulsan, South Gyeongsang Province Korea Zinc Inc.’s face-off with an MBK Partners-led consortium over control of…
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MBK’s Korea Zinc takeover attempt to spur search for white knights
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(Courtesy of Getty Images) North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partner Ltd.’s attempt to take control of Korea Zinc Inc.…
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Korea Zinc shares skyrocket on last day of buybacks
in News(Courtesy of Getty Images) Shares in Korea Zinc Inc. rallied on Thursday, the last day of its buybacks, against market…
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Korea Zinc takes control of key shareholder in management feud with MBK
in NewsKorea Zinc Chair Choi Yun-birm speaks at a press conference on Oct. 2, 2024 (File photo by Yonhap) Korea Zinc…
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MBK wins enough stake in tender offer to control Korea Zinc
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Information board at Korea Zinc’s headquarters in Seoul (File photo by News1) North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd.…
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Corporate management disputes spring up in S.Korea
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Korea Zinc executives and employees at a press conference to protest MBK’s potential takeover in Seoul on Sept. 24, 2024…
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Korea Zinc ups share buyback price, volume to counter MBK
Korea Zinc Chair Choi Yun-birm at a press conference on Oct. 2, 2024 (File photo by News1) Korea Zinc Inc.…
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MBK not to raise Korea Zinc tender offer price after regulator warns
MBK Partners will not raise its tender offer prices again for Korea Zinc Inc. and its affiliate Young Poong Precision…
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Korea Zinc to fulfill share buyback regardless of offer size
Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-birm announced a share buyback plan at a press conference on Oct. 2 (Courtesy of Yonhap)…
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Korea Zinc offers higher share buyback price than MBK’s bid
Korea Zinc’s smelter in South Korea Korea Zinc Inc. will unveil a share buyback at a higher price than MBK…
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MBK ups Korea Zinc bid price as management feud heats up
MBK Partners office in Seoul (File photo by Bum-June Kim) North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd. raised its…
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Korea Zinc to sell $301 mn in CP amid management feud with MBK
Korea Zinc Vice Chairman Lee Je-joong speaks at a press conference to protest against a potential takeover by MBK in…
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Hanwha, LG to support Korea Zinc in battle against MBK
Illustration of Korea Zinc’s booth at a battery industry exhibition in Seoul in 2023 (File photo by Korea Zinc) South…
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Korea Zinc teams up with brokerage firm to counter MBK
Korea Zinc’s smelter in South Korea (File photo by Korea Zinc) Korea Zinc Inc. Chair Choi Yun-birm joined hands with…
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Korea Zinc teams up with brokerage firm to counter MBK
Korea Zinc’s smelter in South Korea (File photo by Korea Zinc) Korea Zinc Inc. Chair Choi Yun-birm has joined hands…
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MBK not to sell Korea Zinc to China after tender offer
Kim Kwang Il, a partner at MBK, speaks to the press about the private equity firm’s tender offer for Korea…
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MBK, Young Poong seek $1.5 bn hostile bid for Korea Zinc
MBK Partners office in Seoul (File photo by Bum-June Kim) MBK Partners Ltd., the North Asia-focused private equity firm, is…
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PE firms seek to buy Korean explosives maker for $218 mn
Koryo Nobel Explosives’ industrial explosive New Superemulsion Star (File photo, courtesy of Koryo Nobel) A private equity consortium seeks to…
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Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Youngpoong in management feud
Korea Zinc’s factory in Onsan, South Korea (Courtesy of Korea Zinc) South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is…
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Hyundai Motor eyes hydrogen value chain leadership
Hyundai Motor CEO Chang Jaehoon (far right) takes over from Yoshinori Kanehana (far left), Chairman of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, as…
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HD Hyundai supplies large hydrogen forklifts to Korea Zink
South Korea’s HD Hyundai XiteSolution announced on Monday that it deployed its four 5-ton hydrogen forklifts in Korea Zinc Inc.’s…
