South Korea

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association allocated $100 million to 3650 REIT, a U.S. commercial real estate lender originating and managing portfolio loans for institutional investors.

Sean Chung has joined Golub Capital as managing director, working out of the $60 billion credit firm’s Seoul office in an expansion of its South Korea-focused team.

The Korean Private School Teachers and Staff Pension is seeking up to four private equity managers to run up to KRW 400 billion ($310 million).

Deal activity slowed to a crawl on the Friday before the May Day holiday. Other than a pre-SPAC move and a KKR real estate acquisition in Asia, we tracked little of note today.

Smaller private equity and venture capital players generated $237 million in deal activity today, mostly across various technology sectors in the U.S. and Asia.

Coller Capital held the first close of Coller Capital Secondaries RMB I Fund, which has a target size of RMB 1.5 billion ($218 million). The fund, CCRMB I, was the first secondaries fund to be denominated RMB to be sold ...

The $18 billion University of Michigan endowment allocated to five funds across absolute return and global private equity strategies in recent months. Meeting materials for the Ann Arbor-based fund detailed $210 million in allocations with a wide-ranging set of investments ...

The sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company in Abu Dhabi and KKR are collaborating to co-invest across performing private credit opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. The partnership is likely to invest at least $1 billion of long-term capital, providing ...

LaSalle Investment Management raised over $2.2 billion for its latest real estate fund focused on key Asia Pacific markets -- Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. LaSalle Asia Opportunity VI is the firm’s sixth closed-ended opportunistic fund ...

KKR attracted $1.1 billion to its inaugural Asia credit fund, which grows a platform that leverages the alternatives giant’s existing $184 billion expertise in global credit. KKR Asia Credit Opportunities Fund is focused solely on performing privately originated credit investments ...