"George, what's going on?"

As soon as he came to the Bright Fund, he saw George Berkeley waiting in the office, Xia Yu went straight to the point and walked to his chair as he spoke.

"Boss, now I have commissioned the British public accounting firm to make an estimate of the Financial Times Company, and I have made an appointment to hold a second negotiation with Pearson Group tomorrow afternoon. ”

George Berkeley said with a hint of excitement in his voice, and he still felt a little dazed, as if in a dream.

Xia Yu bowed slightly, and asked again: "Why is there such a big change, do you know if you are willing?"

Hearing Xia Yu's inquiry, George Berkeley held his mood, sorted out his thoughts, and said in detail: "At the beginning, after we gave an offer, Pearson Group directly rejected it, claiming that the Financial Times was not for sale, and refused to negotiate with us. ”

"But early this morning, when we raised the offer again and offered 12 million to acquire 71% of the shares of Pearson Group, a senior executive of Pearson Group softened his attitude and passed the word to accept our acquisition offer, and the specific price was discussed separately, and I immediately went to the headquarters of Pearson Group to meet with him. ”

"Pearson is not satisfied with the £12 million price, but I am sure that Pearson is willing to sell us all of its shares in the Financial Times!"

Xia Yu frowned slightly, and his intuition told him that there must be something in it that he didn't know, otherwise Pearson Group would not have changed its attitude greatly.

And they don't even set up obstacles, just entangled in price, when did the British talk so well?

Things are too abnormal, Xia Yu is a little suspicious.

But what George Berkeley is saying now does not give him useful information at all, and he has no way to analyze it.

"George, think about it, is there anything wrong?"

Xia Yu asked.

George Berkeley suddenly closed his eyes and thought, while Xia Yu waited quietly, pondering in his mind.

After about ten minutes, George Berkeley shook his head at Xia Yu with a somewhat ugly face: "Boss, I combed it through, and I didn't find anything wrong for the time being, and the attitude of Pearson Group is relatively kind." ”

Seeing this, Xia Yu could only give up his doubts for the time being, and decided to continue first, taking one step at a time, after all, although things were abnormal, the current situation was in his favor.

Anyway, even if it is a poisonous cake, you have to eat it first, anyway, others don't know that he has money in his hands, Xia Yu is confident that even if something goes wrong, he can get through.

After making up his mind, Xia Yu instructed George Berkeley, who was still frowning and thinking: "George, don't think about it anymore, just pay more attention to the acquisition next, since Pearson Group is willing to sell, you should speed up the progress and take down the equity of the Financial Times Company as soon as possible!"

"Understood!"

George Berkeley's face was relieved, and he nodded earnestly.

Xia Yu pondered for a moment and asked again, "How is the progress of The Daily Telegraph and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars?"

"The Daily Telegraph's acquisition is going well, our people have approached Black, and although Black has rejected several of our offers, according to our analysis, they just dislike the low price. ”

"Very good, continue to speed up the progress, it doesn't matter if the price is high, I just want the result!"

Xia Yu said with satisfaction, once again clarifying his attitude.

In the seventies and eighties, the entire European media industry had not yet exploded, so even if the current purchase price doubled, when Europe got out of the quagmire and the media industry exploded, Xia Yu still made a lot of money, so he didn't care about more money at all, as long as he got it, he could play his political value earlier.

"What about Rolls-Royce Motor Cars?"

"We are still collecting information and have commissioned a British public accounting firm to assist us with the acquisition, and the company's dedicated acquisition team has already set up the skeleton and is still in the process of filling in the staff. ”

George Berkeley reported truthfully.

The acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was too difficult, so he asked the British public accounting firm to assist, and the next step was to find a bank with the strength and connections to have a greater success rate to assist, and now the company can do is to form a strong elite acquisition team to improve the success rate of the acquisition.

It's a pity that the Bright Fund is a new company after all, and even if he fully mobilizes his connections, there are not many elites recruited.

Especially now that three projects are underway at the same time, and the Financial Times has suddenly skyrocketed, leading him to put his strength here, so the pace of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' acquisition has slowed down again.

After learning about the situation, Xia Yu thought about it, and it seemed that he had to end his leisurely days, and he could only speed up the progress by checking it himself.

Thinking of this, he instructed George Berkeley: "George, I will take over the construction of the acquisition team of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, and you will do your best to buy two newspapers!"

George Berkeley was taken aback, although he had some doubts in his heart, he still obeyed the order, secretly cheered himself up in his heart, and tried his best to deal with it and produce results as soon as possible.

"Yes, you will not be disappointed by the boss!"

"Well, come on!"

After Xia Yu's encouragement, George Berkeley left the office in high spirits, and Xia Yu also stood up and went to build the acquisition team.

Soon, Bright Fund Co., Ltd. recruited on a large scale again, but the threshold was set very high, and the salary was also very high.

At the same time, Xia Yu is no longer limited to Korn Ferry International, but also issued headhunting tasks to the four major headhunting companies, all of whom are financial elites who are proficient in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and restructuring consulting business.

He plans to personally cast the M&A department of Bright Fund and make it the face of Bright Fund, which is exactly what he needs.

In the next few decades, Europe will be surging, and various opportunities will emerge one after another, and Xia Yu, who holds the capital, will of course join the gluttonous feast that has not yet happened.

However, many companies are not so easy to acquire, especially the higher the value and the more important to the livelihood and security of a country, the more difficult it is to acquire.

If you want to eat more potential companies, and still buy them as wholly as possible, you need Xia Yu to have a good pair of teeth, otherwise you can't bite it, and it is easy to be collapsed.

Therefore, businesses such as mergers and acquisitions and restructuring are a top priority.

As for other fund raising consulting, asset management and other common businesses of other fund companies, Xia Yu plans to put it aside first.

Anyway, he has no shortage of funds for the time being, and he is also greedy, planning to eat good things into his stomach, not wanting to share them with others easily, and the most important thing is safety and control of the company.

Therefore, we do not plan to raise funds externally for the time being.

The positioning of the Bright Fund is that of a cormorant, eating delicious fish one by one, and then spitting it out for Xia Yu to distribute elsewhere.

Xia Yu has the memories of many later generations of financial tycoons, especially one of them, the king of kings of Wall Street and the co-founder of the Blackstone Group, Steve Schwartzman.

The M&A business is the trump card of the Blackstone Group, which has accumulated nearly $400 billion in business since its establishment in 1985.

So Xia Yu is another Steve Schwartzman, or a complete body, Xia Yu is completely confident in building an M&A department.