The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 954 Hardworking Goldman Sachs

After Hao Jianguo received Huang He's order to give it a try, he immediately began to work diligently, and began to contact those financial institutions that held shares in Amazon.

Hao Jianguo's work is very serious, because this task is difficult. Using 80 billion US dollars to buy 35% of the shares, which is equivalent to a premium of only about 5%. If you want to use this price to win so many shares, The difficulty is very high.

Of course, Hao Jianguo also understood the significance of Huang He's actions. He just wanted to see the market's judgment and expectations for Amazon, as well as the premium when the acquisition actually started.

Now if you can win 5% of the shares at a premium of 35%, then the possibility of controlling the overall premium within 10% is very high.

But if it cannot be won, it means that the premium may eventually exceed 10%, or even more than 20%, so the total price of 250 billion US dollars is not so insurance.

So Hao Jianguo must complete the task, and then let our Boss Huang fall into this pre-prepared pit completely.

So Hao Jianguo began to work hard.

It went smoothly at the beginning, because Hao Jianguo was willing to buy at a premium of about 55%. This is definitely good news for a company whose stock price is falling. Many institutions have expressed their willingness to sell, and they will soon be able to win 15 About % of the shares are intended.

But what I didn't expect was that, perhaps because Hao Jianguo was too impatient, there were rumors that someone had taken a fancy to Amazon and planned to buy Amazon as a whole.

As soon as this rumor came out, Hao Jianguo knew the situation was going to end.Because Hao Jianguo had been in contact with these shareholders before, they were all negotiating in the name of being optimistic about Amazon and wanting to invest. He did not reveal the intention of acquisition. On the surface, he just acquired some shares for long-term investment.

Because in this case, it will not trigger the collective conspiracy of those equity holders to raise prices.But what I didn't expect was that the news spread, causing Amazon's shareholding institutions to start connecting with each other, and then directly set the price to a premium of about 20%.

This price made Hao Jianguo panic, and he suddenly found himself in a dilemma.

A 20% premium is already unwilling to take 80% of the shares at a price lower than 35 billion U.S. dollars. Of course, there are not many more than that. Boss Huang explained the same thing.

But if you do this, it clearly means that you are determined to win this company, so when you buy the remaining shares next, the premium will only be even more terrifying.

He won Amazon with a 20% premium, and the overall acquisition cost of Amazon has reached a price close to 250 billion US dollars. This is Huang He's base price, but if it exceeds the 20% premium, it will exceed Huang He's Bottom line, is Huang He likely to agree to this price?
The matter suddenly fell into a stalemate. Hao Jianguo knew that he could never agree to the demands of these shareholders. The premium must be controlled within 10%, otherwise Huang He would not enter the game at all.

But the attitude of those shareholders is also very firm. Since Jiangnan Group intends to acquire the entire Amazon, it will cost more money, and at least 20% more.

Moreover, the price keeps rising. In those large-scale acquisitions, 50% premium acquisitions abound. Why ask for a 20% premium?
Just when the situation was at a stalemate and no one wanted to let it go, another bad news came, that is, Bezos, the chairman of Amazon, knew that someone was planning to acquire Amazon. conditions.

However, Bezos did not foolishly fall out with shareholders, but let out rumors that Amazon's profit in 2005 was very gratifying, and the stock price was about to usher in a skyrocketing or something.

As soon as the news came out, those shareholders immediately lost interest in talking with Hao Jianguo. For a while, this Hao Jianguo completely lost the possibility of completing the task.

In desperation, Hao Jianguo could only continue to find the old man and Goldman Sachs behind him, and reported the whole situation truthfully.

"Stupid!" After the report was over, Hao Jianguo was scolded bloody, and the old man unceremoniously scolded Hao Jianguo for his stupidity, "20% is 20%, why don't you just put the 80 billion US dollars first? Spent all of it and exchanged it for shares in Amazon. In this case, do you think Huang He will continue to rush in even if you haven't completed anything?"

"Yes, but in this case, the Yellow Crane will eat me alive!" Hao Jianguo muttered in his heart, but he put on a look of great regret.It is really stupid to keep saying that you are useless.

"There is no other way, for the current plan, I have to do it!" The old man sighed and said, he was extremely unwilling to do it, but seeing that the Yellow Crane was on the edge of the trap, if he didn't push it, That is really uncomfortable.

So, that night, the old man called some people, and then the change happened.

On the second day, a news suddenly came from the government department of the United States, that is, the taxation department of the United States is considering a tax investigation on e-commerce and a reasonable tax collection method. In the next three months, there will be A set of detailed regulations has been drawn up.

This is very normal news, because in the United States, you can owe money to the White House or even the US military, but you cannot owe money to the tax bureau.

Because no matter how much money you owe the U.S. military and the White House, they cannot send armed forces to arrest you. This is not in compliance with laws and regulations.But if you owe the tax bureau, you can dig a hole for yourself, because the tax bureau will catch you in at any time... In the United States, the tax bureau has its own violent machine and punishment power, and there are many things that the law can't do much , the tax bureau can do it, and it is never illegal.

The Taxation Bureau of the United States is a department whose promotion depends entirely on the tax amount. They regard tax collection as their only goal, and they do not let go of all the targets that can be taxed.

Recently, the Tax Bureau has focused on e-commerce.

Although the taxation bureau has long formulated relevant taxation rules for e-commerce, the taxation rules and regulations are aimed at sellers on the platform, so it is very difficult to collect taxes. After all, people on the Internet are Anonymous, it is impossible for the tax bureau to verify the identity of the seller individually, and then come to collect the seller!
After all, an individual seller may only have a transaction volume of less than US$10 a month, and the tax amount collected from it is no more than one US dollar, but the fee for a tax officer’s visit exceeds US$100, which is definitely not a good deal.

Therefore, even though the United States Taxation Bureau has formulated relevant rules long ago, it has never been seriously implemented, and the vast majority of e-commerce sellers have never paid taxes.

But this time, it is said that with the continuous expansion of e-commerce transactions, the top management of the tax bureau has decided to formulate more comprehensive tax collection methods again, ensuring that all electronic transactions will be monitored and that every transaction will be taxed.

Although this news only came from the mouths of some relevant people, there is no official document from the government.It means that a new taxation method will be formulated, but it is completely unclear how to use the new method to collect taxes. This is just a vague gossip, and it stands to reason that it will not have much influence.

But when the news was announced, the stock prices of all e-commerce platforms in the market began to plummet.This is also normal. After all, once taxes start to be collected, buyers will need to pay more funds. This will definitely reduce buyers' enthusiasm for shopping, and the sales of major e-commerce platforms will drop, and the stock price will drop accordingly. It's a matter of course.

On this day, Amazon's stock price fell miserably, and the total market value fell directly to 201 billion US dollars, and it almost returned to the range of 100 billion US dollars.

With the spread of this news, those institutions that had previously fought against Hao Jianguo also panicked. They began to negotiate with Hao Jianguo, demanding a 10% premium for the transaction.

Hao Jianguo agreed to this, but it should be calculated based on a 10% premium of the price when the contract was signed. Now, the total market value of the entire Amazon is only 200 billion, and a 10% premium will only return to the previous 210 billion US dollars. price only.

Now these institutions are naturally not happy, and demand a 10% premium based on the previous price. In the end, after some verbal battles, Hao Jianguo agreed to increase the premium to 15%, but at the current price, absolutely A premium is not charged at the original price.

Faced with such a request, these institutions had no choice but to agree. In the end, Hao Jianguo succeeded in buying 35.21% of Amazon shares for Jiangnan Group within the agreed time. The total cost was about 78 billion US dollars, which was quite perfect. Completed his task.

Then, he gave the report card to Huang He.

Huang He glanced at the acquisition documents in his hands, and finally made a thorough decision. He told Hao Jianguo to immediately find a way to contact the financial institution in the middle as an intermediary, and help Jiangnan Group borrow money from the account of the Western Mustang Fund. , That is to use the method of self-management of borrowing money to collect the remaining 150 billion US dollars of acquisition funds, and then completely complete the complete acquisition of Amazon Group.

This financial takeover battle, known as the Amazon battle by later generations, has completely started.

The first part of the whole war is to find a trustworthy middleman to help Jiangnan Group avoid legal risks.

And Hao Jianguo had already completed the relevant intelligence collection work, and listed all the more than a dozen trustworthy financial institutions for Huang He to choose!
"Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs would also do such a thing?" Boss Huang asked in surprise when he saw that there were two famous people on the list.

"Yes, boss, don't look at these two companies as well-known international companies, the bosses of investment banks, and even known as the financial presidents behind the scenes. But in fact, these two companies are dirtier than anyone else. Closing the inside for 1000 years is not enough." Hao Jianguo said indignantly.

(End of this chapter)