LOAN DEAL, SOUTH KOREA CAPITAL MARKETS DEAL
Malt from the Orient: KKR’s US$1.8bn buyout of Oriental Brewery – its first investment into South Korea – was riddled with twists and turns and plenty of drama. The W1.14trn (US$900m) financing backing the acquisition marked the only leveraged financing of significance from Asia in 2009 and overcame extremely challenging conditions in credit markets. It is IFR Asia’s Loan of the Year and South Korea Capital Markets Deal of the Year.
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