{"id":1002917,"date":"2026-04-15T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002917"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:20:44","slug":"kkr-to-buy-820-million-in-korean-it-firm-samsung-sds-convertible-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/kkr-to-buy-820-million-in-korean-it-firm-samsung-sds-convertible-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"KKR to buy $820 million in Korean IT firm Samsung SDS&#8217; convertible bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment firm KKR said on Tuesday it will buy $820 million in newly issued convertible bonds of IT services firm Samsung SDS, an affiliate of \u200cSamsung Electronics. <\/p>\n<p>\u2060As \u2060part of the deal, KKR will take an active advisory role with Samsung SDS&#8217;s management, including on mergers and acquisitions and capital allocation. <\/p>\n<p>Samsung will use the investment to \u2060build its infrastructure \u200cand expand its artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment firm KKR said on Tuesday it will buy $820 million in newly issued convertible bonds of IT services firm Samsung SDS, an affiliate of \u200cSamsung Electronics. \u2060As \u2060part of the deal, KKR will take an active advisory role with Samsung SDS&#8217;s management, including on mergers and acquisitions and capital allocation. Samsung will use the investment to \u2060build its infrastructure \u200cand expand its artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}