Chapter 219: Apologies, Drinking Party
Under the Bank of China Tower, the night view is bright. The Huangpu River is sparkling, as if there is invisible wealth flowing in the river.
O Demon Capital!
Kang Wenfeng smiled and shook hands with Jing Gao, "Mr. Jing, congratulations." See you later!" he said as a shareholder representative at Uber China's takeover meeting.
Jing Gao smiled: "Thank you Mr. Kang for your introduction." Another day, I will invite Mr. Kang to tea. Good bye. ”
Kang Wenfeng watched Jing Gao leave with his beautiful female assistant and leave in the car in the night. CITIC Securities' investment in Uber China is based on the potential of the mobility sector. Even if the Phoenix Fund bids 9 billion, it is estimated that there will not be many small shareholders who will withdraw from the market by then.
On the contrary, Uber, which continues to supply blood to Uber China, feels struggling and does not want to entangle and fight with Didi anymore.
Didi just completed its Series F financing in June not long ago. Among them, Apple invested $1 billion. This came as a shock to Uber's Kalanick. Uber has always had a good relationship with Apple, which has never revealed the idea of investing in Didi.
This is all what Emile Michael told him.
In China's venture capital circle, there is a BAT round before listing. Bat is Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba. These three giants are basically at the top of the VC world! They have a lot of cash and a lot of capital.
And in the United States, Apple is also a giant with a huge amount of cash. So Kalanick will be reluctant.
However, now there is a "warrior" to take over! The battle between Uber China and Didi will continue.
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Instead of heading to the hotel, Idaka and Guan Yujia's car went straight to the luxury residence in the heart of the North Bund: the Platinum Bay Mansion.
Xiao Qiao helped Jing Gao buy 4 high-rise residences here. They are 30 and 31 floors. One floor and two households. The unit price is about 170,000 square meters, and the price of a single set is about 60 million.
This is a typical river-view room, and you can see the Huangpu River, the Bund, and the Oriental Pearl Tower at home. Although it is only 33 storeys high, the luxury yacht club is downstairs, and next to it is the five-star Banyan Tree International Resort, which has the best view in the whole of the magic city.
Little Joe and his assistants live next door and downstairs on the 31st floor. Jing Gao and Guan Yujia came back, and Xiao Qiao and the others were already waiting in the living room of Jing Gao's room.
Itaka walked in and announced, "I've reached a preliminary agreement with Kalanick, the chairman of Uber, and he accepts my $9 billion offer." Tomorrow morning, I will go to the Bank of China Tower for a detailed discussion via video link. ”
"Whoa. ”
The crowd gave a standing ovation and was extremely excited. They came overnight on Monday night. There are rumors that Didi is going to merge with Uber China. Now it's time to grab the food and succeed in one fell swoop!
Guan Yujia looked at Jing Gao's back with admiration. She was still reminiscing about the confrontation she had just had in the Bankers' Club.
Uber's senior vice president of business, Emil Michael, was at first dismissive of them. Look down on Mr. Jing, who can't speak. What happened later? Not only was he shocked that even the cigar ashes were shaken off, but he also complimented Mr. Jing diligently.
Because Mr. Jing has shown his strength and strength!
Jing Gao pressed down and said, "We have to make a plan to acquire Uber China overnight, including the details." This requires everyone to be busy. ”
"No problem, Mr. Jing. ”
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It's not just the Phoenix Fund team that has been busy overnight, but the Uber headquarters is also busy. On the morning of the next day, Jing Gao took Xiao Qiao and Guan Yujia to the Bank of China Building to negotiate.
Uber owns 88.5% of Uber China, and the remaining investors who provided a total of $200 million in AB's two rounds of financing account for 11.5%.
The final acquisition plan is that Phoenix Fund pays $7.2 billion to Uber for an 80% stake in Uber China. and access Uber China's brand, business, data and other assets.
Phoenix Fund will exclusively own the Chinese trademark and brand "Uber" in the world, and decouple from the Uber brand. The new Uber company will have access to develop its own ride-hailing software. (Permission to modify the code has always been in the United States).
At the same time, Phoenix Fund will invest $1 billion in Uber for a 1.47% stake in Uber. Cross-shareholding.
At the same time, the advice of legal experts to Phoenix Fund is to set up a common VOE framework for "Chinese concept stocks" to facilitate listing in the United States in the future.
On Sunday, Emil Michael organized an 11.5% meeting of Uber China's investors to the Bankers' Club to complete changes to Uber China's board of directors and bylaws.
Its investors are: HNA Group, CITIC Securities, China Taiping, Chinese Life, GAC Group, Vanke, Minsheng Bank, China Broadband Industry Fund, and Baidu. These are all well-known enterprises in China.
The meeting was held at four o'clock in the afternoon, followed by a small buffet reception.
In the banquet hall, waiters from the Bankers' Club shuttle through it to provide services.
Qiao Shuang was wearing a beautiful white evening dress and kept talking to people. She felt like her face was going to stiffen tonight.
Although the actual controller of Phoenix Fund is Mr. Jing, as the chairman of Uber (China), she is about to take charge of a $7 billion company, and she still has the cards. Moreover, most of the people who attended the Uber (China) shareholders' meeting today were not the core executives of famous companies. After all, the proportion of investment is not high.
As soon as she finished chatting about a topic, she saw Xia Rongxi at the door of the banquet hall coming in under the leadership of her assistant.
Xia Rongxi also received an invitation, and with a very beautiful female companion by his side, he went directly to Jing Gao's side.
"Miss Wang, please be with you. Jing Gao was chatting with Wang Hanjun, the second princess of HNA Group, who came to attend the meeting on behalf of HNA today, walked aside with Xia Rongxi, and beckoned the waiter to bring three glasses of red wine.
Xia Rongxi was in his forties, still a little ugly in an expensive and straight suit, and said with a warm smile: "Mr. Jing, thank you for inviting me to this buffet party." "He just looked around, and there are a few big guys!
Idaka smiled and nodded, raising his glass, "It's me who wants to thank you." Please. "Inviting Xia Rongxi over is the meaning of reward. Anyone he gets to know here can take off in his career.
Xia Rongxi smiled awkwardly. A few days ago, Jing Gao asked him to help contact Kalanick, and he was actually a bit of a trick. There must be difficulties, but he didn't do his best. As a result, Jing Gao met and negotiated directly.
Xia Rongxi introduced the female companion next to him and said, "Mr. Jing, this is Ms. Ouyang Wan." She is doing finance and investment here in the magic capital. That's where she got the news. ”
Ouyang Wan is of medium height, 1.66 meters tall, wearing hollow crystal high heels, and looks graceful and graceful. But there is no age to tell from her charming, dignified face. A one-shoulder evening dress with orange lapels. Ferocious, thin waist, jade skin. Revealing her amazing beauty. A stunner-like beauty.
Ouyang Wan elegantly stretched out her hand, shook Jing Gao gently, and praised: "Mr. Jing entered the magic capital alone, as sharp as a swordsman, and quickly won the equity of Uber China." Those of us who invest are privately in awe and amazement. Mr. Jing, I toast you. I did it, you feel free. ”
It's always nice to compliment a big beauty.
Jing Gao can be seen. Xia Rongxi is actually in a subordinate position. This Ouyang Wan didn't do her best to help at first, probably thinking about things like sitting on the ground and starting the price. Therefore, Xia Rongxi and Ouyang Wan actually asked him to give in and apologize.
Seeing Ouyang Wan raise her head very boldly and dry half a glass of red wine, her eyes were charming and clear when she looked at him, and she had a kind of style after cultivating the Tao. The last time Jing Gao felt this way was when Jiang Meimai was there.
But this Ouyang Wan is obviously much more powerful. It's no wonder that he can become a "well-informed" person in the business world of the magic capital.
Jing Gao smiled and raised his glass and dried the red wine, "Ms. Ouyang has won the prize." ”
Xia Rongxi toasted Jing Gao again, and said with a smile: "Mr. Jing, announcing this news tomorrow can be described as a bombshell." I don't know how to shock the jaws of many people. ”
Jing Gao laughed and patted Xia Rongxi on the shoulder, "After all, I want the public to know." Ignoring Xia Rongxi, who wanted him to help introduce the guests, he walked to another circle. Vanke's Wang Shishi was toasting in the crowd.
It's actually quite strange.
Vanke and Baoneng are fighting fiercely. How did he have time to be here. Vanke's headquarters is in Shencheng.