Firm Overview

MBK Partners is an Asian independent private equity firm with more than $8.1 billion in capital under management. The firm focuses on acquisitions in North Asia – Korea, Japan and Greater China (China, Taiwan and Hong Kong).

Established in 2005, MBK Partners has 35 investment professionals located in Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong. MBK Partners has experience and a strong investment record in the telecommunications and media, financial services, heavy industrials, consumer, pharmaceuticals and business services industries.

MBK Partners typically acquires companies through management-led buyouts, buys subsidiary businesses through corporate divestitures, partners with strategic buyers, takes publicly listed companies private and purchases and grows companies through add-on acquisitions. The firm focuses on control investments.

MBK Partners’ investors include government agencies, public and corporate pension funds, financial institutions, funds of funds and university endowments from Korea, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, North America, Western Europe and the Middle East.

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