MBK’s stake sale may fetch big bucks to three Korean partners Three partners including co-founder Michael Kim owns 80% of PE firm’s Korean entity
Translated by Ryu Ho-joung 공개 2022-01-17 07:43:43
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MBK Partners, a North Asia-focused private equity firm, has agreed to sell a minority stake to US-based Dyal Capital Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman, in a deal that marks the first stake purchase by a global asset manager in an Asian private equity firm.The Seoul-headquartered firm agreed to sell a roughly 13% stake to Dyal Capital for $1 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg News on Wednesday.
A MBK Partners spokesman confirmed the sale, but declined to comment on details about the transaction.
MBK Partners is one of Asia’s biggest private equity firms, with buyout and special situations as its core strategy. It has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo.
While details of the deal have not been disclosed, industry watchers say it is likely that most of the stake purchased by Dyal Capital belonged to existing shareholders of MBK Partners’ South Korean entity.
Investments by the firm’s South Korea team reportedly represent about 50% of its total portfolio. According to financial statements for the year ended on June 30, 2021, the South Korean entity was 20.24% owned by Michael ByungJu Kim, the private equity firm’s co-founder and partner, and 29.5% each owned by partners Jong-Ha James Yoon and Kwang-Il Kim.
Assuming that the deal was structured to include part of the holdings in MBK Partners’ all entities on a pro rata basis, the stake sale would enable the three partners – who together own a nearly 80% of the South Korean entity – to cash out more than $100 million each.
The deal comes amid a boom in M&A activity across Asia. MBK Partners, which focuses on investments in Greater China, Japan and South Korea, completed successful exits in all three countries last year.
New York-based Dyal Capital focuses on acquiring minority stakes in established asset managers. The stake sale is expected to help MBK Partners to expand beyond Asia into Europe and the US. (Reporting by Hyo-jung Lim)
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