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South Korean property and casualty insurer and part of the Samsung group.
The board approved up to 125 trillion won for this year, but three quarters of a three-year program lands in one payment. The "megacycle" that follows is a forecast, not a policy.
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Life Asset Management told Samsung it would welcome canceling common and preferred shares together, with a 15 trillion won buyback nearly used up. The offer answers Samsung's stated worry about fairness to common holders, so the limit on canceling common stock is now a 10% legal cap on its insurers' combined stake.
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Five Samsung affiliates rejected Flashlight Capital Partners' 906.6 billion won bid for their S-1 shares, a price about 37% above market. Directors owe shareholders a duty under Korea's revised Commercial Act, so holding needs a better reason than doubt the deal would close.
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Six Samsung affiliates will put $1 billion into Helix, KKR's AI data center and power company. Four of the five business lines Samsung tied to the deal are data center construction, operations, cooling and backup power, so the stake is also a bid for Helix's orders.
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Samsung Group is committing $1 billion from six affiliates to Helix, the AI infrastructure firm led by former AWS chief Adam Selipsky. Anyone who later contracts with Helix will deal with a builder whose owners also supply its power and technology.
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Six Samsung companies are committing $1 billion to Helix, lifting the KKR- and Nvidia-backed platform above $11 billion in secured capital. Helix plans to build generation, transmission and fiber alongside the data centers, though no project has yet been assigned any of the money.
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