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Lotte Group’s Hotel Unit to Seek Up to $4.8 Billion in South Korean IPO

If shares sell at the high end of the range, offering would be country’s largest ever

Hotel Lotte Co., centerpiece of South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate, said it plans an initial public offering in Seoul next month to raise up to 5.7 trillion Korean won ($4.8 billion), which would be the largest stock sale in the country’s history.

The IPO, announced Thursday in a regulatory filing, comes after a bruising family feud between the two sons of the conglomerate’s nonagenarian founder. Second son Shin Dong-bin...

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