Yesterday, Rani Zim bought his whole 65.7% stake in Psagot, plus tradable choices, to the corporate’s former CEO Yaniv Bender. Bender can pay NIS 40 million in money on the completion of the deal, and can then maintain 73% of Psagot, which has develop into a shell firm after the sale of its companies.
Bender was CEO of Psagot for eighteen months beneath Zim as controlling shareholder, till the top of 2023.
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Zim purchased Psagot’s mutual funds and portfolio administration enterprise three years in the past, however the transfer didn’t go properly. The corporate’s share value plummeted, and most of its exercise was lately bought to rivals The Phoenix Holdings and IBI Funding Home. In the course of the interval, Psagot misplaced greater than 80% of its worth, and its market cap earlier than the present deal was beneath NIS 60 million.
The deal is topic to preconditions, together with completion of the sale of sub-subsidiary Psagot Securities and reimbursement of the corporate’s sequence C bonds, and the cancellation of all licenses for offering credit score and monetary asset companies within the firm and its subsidiaries.
Psagot lately introduced the signing of a binding MOU for the sale of its holdings in Psagot Securities and the Psagot model to Carmel Credit score for NIS 73.5 million, topic to approval by the Tel Aviv Inventory Trade.
After completion of the sale of Psagot Securities, the Psagot group will change its title, and will likely be an organization with a considerable money stability that’s owed money owed by third events and has no debt of its personal.
Zim himself is dealing with private money owed amounting to a whole lot of tens of millions of shekels, attributable to, amongst different issues, the acquisition of Psagot in 2021 for NIS 405 million. To cowl his money owed, he has bought a number of property up to now few months, amongst them 9% of the shares in actual property firm Rani Zim Purchasing Facilities.
