K-Electric fails to excite as block halved to $63m

KES Power has raised Prp6.375bn ($63m) from a sale of shares in Pakistan’s K-Electric, after shrinking the deal size by nearly half and pricing the delayed block at the bottom of the bookbuilding range. Just two international investors signed up for stock as pressure on the company’s share price, negative news about dividend payment plans and protests in Karachi wreaked havoc on the trade’s execution.