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Business Recorder
30-04-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
TRG Pakistan posts Rs4 billion profit in 9MFY25
TRG Pakistan Limited on Wednesday posted a profit-after-tax (PAT) of Rs4 billion in the first nine months of the financial year 2024-25, against a loss-after-tax of Rs16.73 billion recorded in the same period last year. The company shared the development in a notice to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The profit comes in line with Rs5.26 billion the company made through the share of profit in equity accounted investee. US arbitrator orders Zia Chishti to pay $9.1mn to TRG International The earnings per share of the company in 9MFY25 stood at Rs7.36 against the loss per share of Rs30.67 in the same period last year. TRG Pakistan Limited was incorporated in Pakistan as a public limited company in 2002. The company obtained a license from the Securities And Exchange Commission Of Pakistan (SECP) to perform as a Non-Banking Finance Company and undertake venture capitalist investment. TRG Pakistan incurs loss of Rs30.8bn in FY24 TRG Pakistan is engaged in investments, particularly in technology, medical insurance, and IT-enabled services through its associate, The Resource Group International Limited (TRGIL). In November 2024, IBEX Limited, a US-based technology company, repurchased approximately 3.56 million shares for $70 million from The Resource Group International.
Business Recorder
29-04-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
US arbitrator orders Zia Chishti to pay $9.1mn to TRG International
In a big blow to former TRG Pakistan CEO Zia Chishti, a US arbitrator has ordered him to pay $9.1 million (Rs2.5 billion) to TRG International, Business Recorder learnt on Tuesday. The arbitration was regarding the legality of share pledges of TRG Pakistan that were central to Zia Chishti's borrowing Rs2.5 billion from JS Bank to buy additional shares of TRG Pakistan. TRG had alleged that it was part of a plan by him and the JS Group to illegally take over TRG Pakistan as a first step towards taking control of TRG's international assets. TRG Pakistan shared the development in a notice to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday. 'The company has been informed by its affiliate The Resource Group International Limited ('TRGIL') that a final award has been issued by a US arbitrator in respect of the arbitration initiated by TRGIL against Mr Chishti challenging the pledging by Mr Chishti of company shares owned by him. 'On January 27, 2025, the arbitrator had issued a partial final award which ruled, inter alia, that shares pledged by Mr Chishti, primarily to JS Bank as security for a loan, were in breach of contractual obligations of Mr Chishti. 'On April 22, 2025, the arbitrator issued a final award that, in addition to the remedies contained in the partial final award dated January 27, 2025, ordered Mr Chishti to pay TRGIL a sum of US$ 9.1 million,' the notice read. Zia Chishti 'resigns as CEO, director at TRG Pakistan' TRG contended that Chishti was not allowed to pledge the shares given his contractual undertakings, and had asked the arbitrator to order him to remove the pledge. In January 2025, the US arbitrator ruled in favour of TRG, and declared that Chishti had breached his contractual obligations by making the pledge. The court then ordered him to remove the pledge. In April 2025, the arbitrator has ordered Chishti to pay $9.1 million (or PKR 2.5 billion) to TRG. As questions are raised about the ability of former TRG Pakistan CEO to pay such a significant amount to TRG, the fate of Rs2.5 billion loan from JS Bank to Chishti remains unclear. In recent filings with the Sindh High Court, JS Bank has declared the loan to be in default. TRG has had stay orders in place from the Sindh High Court since 2023 preventing the exercise of security on the loan. Zia Chishti, The Telegraph settle libel suit over reporting of ex-employee's 'grooming' allegations It is unclear whether the loan continues to be carried on JS Bank's books given the default and the stay orders on collateral. During the most recent quarter ended March 31, 2025, JS Bank reported profit before tax of Rs2.7 billion, which could get wiped out with a write-off of this loan Market analysts have questioned the nature of the loan made in 2022, as it represented a huge exposure for JS Bank for a loan made to a single person. The loan was renewed in November 2024 despite the stay orders on the share pledge security were in place, only to be in default two months later. In the bourse notice on Tuesday, TRG Pakistan also shared that it had received copies of certified orders regarding the adjudication of Writ Petitions 3383 and 3395 of 2025 filed in the Lahore High Court and 693 of 2025 filed in the Islamabad High Court by Zia Chishti. SHC restrains Zia Chishti, wife from transferring shares of TRG Pakistan: notice In both writ petitions, Chishti had sought to suspend ad-interim orders of the Civil Judge in Lahore and Islamabad dated December 2, 2024, December 10, 2024, and February 11, 2025, respectively, that restrained the company in respect of its board elections. 'On April 8, 2025 the Honorable Islamabad High Court judge was pleased to dismiss Writ Petition 693 of 2025 and on April 11, 2025, the Honorable Lahore High Court judge was pleased to dismiss Writ Petitions 3383 and 3395 of 2025,' the notice read.
Express Tribune
28-02-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
TRG's small shareholder gets stay against $55m inflow
Listen to article A small shareholder of TRG Pakistan has obtained a stay order from Islamabad High Court that restrained Greentree Holdings from purchasing a significant further stake in TRG. Greentree Holdings, the largest shareholder of TRG Pakistan with a 29.7% stake, had launched on January 15 a tender offer for a further 35.1% shareholding in TRG Pakistan, representing foreign exchange inflows of $55 million into the country. Book closure for the tender took place on February 21 and tender open dates are from March 6 to 12. However, on February 26, Signsource Limited, a 0.3% shareholder in TRG Pakistan and Abid Hussain, a director of the company and the CEO of Signsource, got a stay order from the high court. The stay order is part of a writ petition filed by Karachi-based Signsource against the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), TRG Pakistan, Greentree Holdings and others in Islamabad High Court. It alleged that the purchase of shares by Greentree was in violation of Pakistan's securities law and said the purchase should be stayed until the next date of hearing. Market participants have reacted with dismay to the news of the stay as the tender provided an exit option to the 13,000-plus shareholders of TRG Pakistan at a 25% premium to the pre-tender price, in addition to remitting much-needed foreign exchange to the country. Greentree Holdings is an offshore vehicle set up by TRG to remit to the shareholders of TRG Pakistan the proceeds of monetisation of its various assets. In 2022, $86 million of the proceeds of sale by TRG of US-based eTelequote were remitted back via the purchase of shares by Greentree in TRG Pakistan. The 2025 tender, valuing at up to $55 million, appears to have been a continuation of that remittance process, funded from the proceeds of the recent partial sale of TRG's stake in Nasdaq-listed IBEX Limited. Market analysts have expressed concern over the ability of a small shareholder to disrupt the inflow of foreign exchange into the country. They added that the stay may set a damaging precedent for small shareholders to disrupt some of the most fundamental capital market functions of a publicly listed company, such as dividends, buybacks or tenders, severely shaking the confidence of investors. Since the tender announcement in the middle of January, over 200 million shares of TRG Pakistan with transaction value of over Rs13 billion have changed hands on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, all with the knowledge and expectation of the upcoming tender purchase.
