Chapter 365: Hold Everything in Your Hand
"You can't be in a hurry, it's useless to be in a hurry, even if I take out the civilian technology, the cheapest price is 600 pounds, and the domestic price of the Celestial Empire plus the customs duty must not be more than 10,000 Celestial Empire coins, although there are many people who can afford to buy it at this price, there are not many people who are willing to buy it."
"But our production cost is low, Mr. Devon Hill, something that costs 100 pounds in England will definitely not exceed 50 pounds in the Celestial Empire, even if you can't come up with the best technology, it will not be difficult for you to have the same technology as the mobile phone technology on the market now."
"It's not difficult," William thought for a moment and pointed to the Heavenly Dao, "Forget it, let's do this today, and we'll talk about it later."
"Okay", the professor also understands that now is not a good time to negotiate.
Opening the car door, William got out of the car and nodded to the other four Celestial Empire experts who had been waiting outside the car, and said to the hotel's housekeeper David, "Take me to the conference room where Anthony's lawyer and them stayed."
"Yes, sir", David bent slightly, made a gesture of invitation to William, and led the way.
The elevator stopped on the 5th floor of the hotel, followed David to a large conference room, as soon as he entered the door, Anthony and his men immediately stood up and greeted William, William nodded with a smile and asked, "Who is following up on my mother's side, and how is the level?"
"BOSS, Mrs. Lena, you put 100 hearts, the person in charge this time is the managing partner of our firm, 20 years before I entered the industry, this time I received your commission, the partners of the firm almost fought", Anthony gloated and laughed.
"Because of the Devon Hill Family Fund?"
"Of course, BOSS, although the annual salary of 1.2 million pounds is a rare high salary, but the high salary alone cannot attract the chairman of the law committee, and if you can't find a breakthrough here, the partners of the firm will certainly not let go of the opportunity to serve another member of the Devon Hill family.
In addition, if I can be a member of the executive committee of the Devon Hill Family Foundation, the benefits will not be too much, and I am a little moved to think that the annual charity amount of the fund will be 100 million US dollars in the future."
William laughed, he was noncommittal to Anthony's hints, some things are more convenient and safe to use raw than cooked, and you can't leave everything to a lawyer.
Although the total percentage of employers who have been cheated by private lawyers is very low, just look at the number of individual cases, which is not a small number, "The members of the foundation's executive committee include the fund's chief lawyer?"
"Generally speaking, of course, it includes the lawyer in charge, but it depends on the intention of the fund owner whether to let lawyers and accountants join", Anthony hesitated for a moment after saying that: "BOSS, I suggest you let Thomas's barrister join, he is one of the best in the British legal industry, he has been in the industry for 40 years, and he will be responsible for the future without any legal problems."
"Let's talk about this again", William didn't agree immediately, just looked at Anthony suspiciously.
Having worked for William for so long, Anthony also has a certain understanding of William, seeing William looking at him, Anthony smiled and said: "I am a student of Thomas's Barrister, I know him very well, more than 7% of the lawyers in the UK are his students, so the network of Thomas's lawyer himself and our students is all over the British legal community, affecting more than 40% of all law-related disputes in the UK."
"Ha, isn't this the oligarch in the lawyer's profession?" William thought for a moment, "What is the market value of your firm?"
"Isn't it, Boss", Anthony is a smart man who knows a lot about William's habit of holding everything in his hands, "Is this necessary?"
"Of course, I haven't been on the company before, my Devon Hill Industries is a leather bag company with an office of less than 100 square meters, just two front desks, and now I have not only Chelsea, Aston Martin but also Electricity England, a company with more than 9,000 employees, it's time to set up a professional advisory team to serve me."
"Well, you really need to formalize what you say, if you let the outside world know that your main tax company is actually a company with only two front desks, the company of more than ten lawyers will definitely be laughed to death", Anthony thought for a moment, "the last time our law firm and accounting firm merged, the valuation was 3.8 billion pounds, now it's about 400 million pounds."
"£150 million, I want 34% equity".
"With only one veto, it shouldn't be a big problem, even if the future financial problems of the fund and all your companies are also left to our firm?" asked Anthony hesitantly.
William laughed, "If you want the whole business, then let me take a 51% stake."
This made Anthony roll his eyes, "BOSS, the firm doesn't make money, the implementation of the limited partner system, the money handed over to the firm is only 30%, and this 30% has to be responsible for the trainee lawyers, lawyers who are not qualified to be partners and other employees to pay salaries, the firm's annual profit is less than 12 million pounds, is it appropriate to spend more than 200 million pounds in exchange for a company that only pays 6 million pounds in dividends a year?"
William shook his head with a smile. "I don't lack this money, and I can even guarantee that my share of the dividend will be rewarded to the top three lawyers and accounting team in the firm, and I want no legal and financial problems."
"Well, if you pay for it, you are the BOSS, as far as I am concerned, I am definitely willing, but I want to convince the other partners", Anthony thought for a while, "If you give me the license and show the other partners some of your patents and inventions, it should not be a big problem, after all, the original intention of opening a company is to make money".
"NO", William refused without even thinking about it, in order to acquire the firm, he showed the patents and technologies in his hand, William was not so stupid, "If you don't agree, forget it, you will continue to be responsible for my legal issues, and the rest will be said."
Besides, Anthony understands that if he doesn't agree, William will definitely not ask their firm to manage financial problems, "Okay, BOSS, I'll have a good chat with the other partners, I hope these guys won't be too stupid and only focus on immediate interests."
"If you want to make a lot of money, you have to have a vision", William pouted, "Okay, don't talk about this, let you help me register the new company."
"It's done, Devon Hill Defence Supplies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Devon Hill Industries, with a registered capital of £100 million," Anthony said of handing over a bag of papers from his hand to William.
"HMM," HE SAID, PULLING OUT HIS PHONE AND SCANNING THE DOCUMENTS IN THE BAG, AND SOON REPORTED ON SUNDAY, "SIR, THE FILE IS FINE."
Hearing that it was okay, William smiled and took the pen handed by Anthony, signed the paper, and returned it to Anthony.
"BOSS, the new company will be officially established in about 3 days, congratulations, BOSS, there is another promising industry."
"Thank you, I have a patent application document for virtual imaging in the confidential mailbox I gave you, hurry up."
"Understood".
Sending Anthony away, William asked Sunday, "Is there any news from the White Ghost?"