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Flash Note: Dawood Hercules (DAWH): Tower deal hits snag

  • VEON limited (NASDAQ: VEON), having controlling interest in PMCL (Jazz) in its official press release today (posted on veon.com) has notified regarding termination of its towers sale to Tanzanite Tower Limited (subsidiary of Edotco Pakistan, of which DAWH was acquiring 45% stake).
  • The deadline for closure of deal was Sept 14, 2018. However, due to non receipt of regulatory approvals deal has been terminated, as per VEON announcements.
  • As per our industry sources, there was not any financing/pricing related issue on this deal and has been subject to security concerns. However, upon clearance of security related issues, deal may materialize in future.
  • In case, if deal does not materialize, we eye this as negative event for the company as DAWH was targeting IRR of ~23% on its Edotco’s investment. While, surplus/idle cash (around ~Rs18bn) will hardly earn 8-10% return now by parking in T-bills or government securities, we believe.

 

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Dawood Hercules

Co. is engaged in the production and sale of urea fertilizer for the agricultural sector.

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