South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace slashes capital increase plan to $1.6 billion
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace will cut the size of a planned fundraising by one-third to 2.3 trillion won ($1.6 billion) to ensure the success of the financing, and after investor and regulatory pushback, it said on Tuesday. The country's largest defence firm had previously announced in March an equity capital increase worth 3.6 trillion won to build up overseas and domestic production to meet growing international demand. However, the Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea's financial regulator, ordered Hanwha Aerospace to revise the plan, saying the company needed to better explain how the equity raising fit with a broader plan to restructure the company.