In a survey of chief and senior executives from 56 brokerage companies, pension funds and private equity firms in South Korea, 46 respondents (86.8%) identified SK Group in a multiple-choice question as the South Korean conglomerate likely to be most active in investment banking deals, including M&As, rights issues, and bond sales, in 2025.
Restructuring efforts by financially distressed chemical and construction companies (56.3%), along with activist funds’ campaigns to enhance corporate value (54.5%), will serve as additional triggers in the M&A market, according to the survey.“With a record level of dry powder, the demand for M&As will grow in low-growth businesses,” said chief executive of a Korean private equity firm.
The deal is understood to have been led by Kim Dong-seon, the third son of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn and vice president of Hanwha Hotels & Resorts.“Hanwha Group will actively chase M&As to facilitate the succession to its third-generation owners, including Vice Chairman Kim Dong-kwan and Kim Dong-seon,” said an investment banker who participated in the survey.“It will focus on defense, food and beverage companies,” he added.
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