M&A State-run Korea National Oil Corp has agreed to buy Canada’s Harvest Energy Trust for C$4.1bn (US$3.9bn), the latest move by South Korea to compete with other resource-hungry Asian economies for overseas assets.
The deal would be the second-largest overseas acquisition by a Korean group, behind Doosan Infracore’s $4.9bn purchase of Bobcat’s assets in 2007, and South Korea’s biggest overseas oil and gas deal to date, according to Dealogic.
