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Selected Portfolio Companies | Korea


Eugene Science
Creating solutions to cholesterol-related diseases, obesity, diabetes and other human diseases.
  Good Morning Securities (formerly Ssangyong Sec, merger with Shinhan Securities (GMSH))
Provides securities brokerage and investment banking services
     
Hyunjin Materials and Yonghyun Base Materials
Leading company in the metal material forging industry focusing on parts for ship engines, wind power plants, and industrial machines


  Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. (KPIC)
A vertically integrated petrochemical company that produces and supplies a wide range of petrochemicals including petrochemical derivatives such as Propylene and Ethylene, and synthetic resins
     
KSNet Inc.
Provides banking and credit card services
  Mando Corporation
One of the largest auto parts suppliers, including various car chassis parts, in Korea
     
Nitgen Technologies Inc. (Enpia & Nitgen)
Manages network traffic for online stock trading sites
  Penta Securities Systems Co.
Corporate network systems security provider
     
The LeadCorp (formerly Dong Teuk Co., Ltd.)
Only listed consumer finance company focusing on unsecured consumer loans
     
         
Good Morning Securities ("GMS")
Turning Around a Fallen Company
H&QAP’s investment in GMS was one of the most recognized private equity transactions in Korea’s history.

GMS, H&QAP’s first investment in Korea, represented a major restructuring pportunity. After GMS was spun out of the Ssangyong Group, H&QAP sourced world-class management for GMS, leading to improved corporate governance and financial transparency. The investment gave H&Q Asia Pacific the control necessary to guide the company through a complex financial restructuring.

H&QAP’s operational and financial re-engineering of GMS turned a once-fallen chaebol subsidiary into one of Korea’s most profitable and best- managed independent securities houses.

In 2002, H&QAP sold GMS to The Shinhan Group, returning 6.6 times its original invested capital.