In the blink of an eye, three days passed in a flash.

In the past three days, Sotheby's and Eskenazi Ltd. have finally ceased to passively accept and have begun to bribe the media to confuse their attention and refute rumors.

The effect is still there, at least some of the more stupid people believe it.

However, these two companies took action, and Xia Yu and Christie's auction house did not watch it.

Xia Yu and Christie's did not know each other, but they had the same attitude, and kept causing trouble for Sotheby's and Eskenazi Ltd.

The only difference is that Christie's is only for Sotheby's.

In this case, although public opinion is no longer as turbulent as it was in the first day or two, it is still not to be underestimated.

This has led to continued declines in the share prices of Sotheby's and Eskenazi Ltd.

For three days, George Berkeley kept Xia Yu updated on the progress of the stock acquisition.

As Xia Yu expected, those institutions that gambled with the companies controlled by the Bright Fund agreed to sell their shares to the Bright Fund in the face of the chips thrown by the Bright Fund that could end the gambling in advance.

Of course, in order to acquire as quickly as possible, Bright Fund is acquired at the real-time stock price of the day, and those institutions agree to it with a slight argument or two at most, and there are no conditions such as any premium acquisition.

After all, the Bright Fund is willing to end the gambling in advance, which is a gift to them, the longer it drags on, the greater their losses, where can they still take care of profits in the face of losses?

Or in their view, saving is earning.

In three days, most of the personnel of the Bright Fund were dispatched, divided into 10 acquisition teams, and acquired a total of 21.4% of the shares of Sotheby's and 18.2% of the shares of Eskenazi Co., Ltd. from these VAM institutions.

In addition, Bright Fund also acquired a total of 27.8% of the shares of Sotheby's and 12.4% of the shares of Eskenazi Co., Ltd. from the market, non-VAM institutions and individual shareholders.

As a result, Bright Fund now owns a total of 49.2% of Sotheby's and 30.6% of Eskenazi Ltd.

It cost £11.2 billion in total.

Because at the time of the acquisition, the Bright Fund played a side game, which was acquired by the vest company prepared before, so the equity was not concentrated, and the outside world did not know the real situation.

At most, some clues can be found in the continuous replacement of shareholders.

But at this point, even if someone finds out, Xia Yu doesn't care.

Holding a 49.2% stake in Sotheby's, the matter of ownership is already a certainty.

That is to say, Sotheby's auction house is different from Christie's auction house, and the number of changes of ownership is much more than the latter, resulting in a very dispersed shareholding, and the actual controlling shareholders of Sotheby's auction house today have a much lower degree of control over the company than Christie's auction house of the Woods family.

As for Eskenazi Co., Ltd., the acquisition of 30.6% of the shares has almost reached the top, and the total shareholding ratio of the Eskenazi family exceeds 50%, and Xia Yu can't take it away at all.

Fortunately, Xia Yu did not plan to acquire this company from the beginning, after all, a large number of Chinese cultural relics were in the Eskenazi family, not in the company.

The acquisition of these shares is nothing more than a calculation for the future.

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"Boss, sorry to keep you waiting. ”

At 2:50 in the afternoon, where the Bright Fund is located, Xia Yu waited in the lobby for less than a minute, and George Berkeley hurriedly ran over from the elevator and said apologetically.

"Out of the way, let's go!"

"Okay!"

Then, Xia Yu took Li Wuming, Elena, George Berkeley and others to the Hilton International Hotel in the west corner of the City of London.

This afternoon, there will be a far-reaching financial gathering here, attended by well-known and powerful financial companies in London, including banks, investment banks, private equity funds and capital management groups, not only British companies, but also many international financial giants in the British branches.

Although the Bright Fund has become more famous and stronger after acquiring two media companies and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, it can still only be regarded as a small character in this party.

Of course, this is to hide such as the secret purchase plan, the operation of London gold, etc., otherwise if it is exposed, the status of the Bright Fund will definitely go up a few grades.

Fifteen minutes later, the car drove to the Hilton International Hotel in London and heard the parking lot under the guidance of the hotel security.

Leaving Li Wuming to watch the car, under the guidance of the waiter, Xia Yu, Elena and George Berkeley came to the arranged assembly hall.

At this time, there were already many people in the venue, and there were few people Xia Yu knew, but George Berkeley greeted people familiarly and introduced Xia Yu to everyone.

Xia Yu is good at dancing with long sleeves, and his attitude is neither humble nor arrogant, and he has exchanged business cards with many people.

At this moment, he caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a big man coming in at the door, and when he looked closely, he saw that Duke Carter Howard was being surrounded by a group of people, and he instantly thought of his status as the director of the second largest shareholder of Lloyds Bank.

"Elena, it's your father here, do you want to go first?"

Xia Yu ended the conversation with the general manager of a private equity fund, walked out close to Elena, and said softly.

Elena was stunned for a moment, followed Xia Yu's gaze, and found that it was her father.

She thought for a while, shook her head slightly and said, "Forget it, there are so many people now, let's go over when there are fewer people." ”

Xia Yu nodded: "Okay, then wait a while." ”

The arrival of Duke Carter Howard seemed to have kicked off the presence of big shots, and in the next ten minutes, one after another big banks or financial giants entered, including the president of Barclays Bank, the president of HSBC Holdings, the general manager of Morgan Bank of England, the Earl of Bahrain of the Bank of Bahrain, G. Sidmond Warburg of S. Warburg and so on.

Of course, Xia Yu also saw Jacob Rothschild, the head of the Rothess family, although Xia Yu saw him for the first time, he still recognized it at a glance, which came from those memories in his mind.

And Xia Yu also noticed that a white man who accompanied Jacob Rothschild but seemed very low-key and slightly humble was the famous George Soros in later generations.

Xia Yu knew that George Soros was a minion of the Rothschild family, and as early as 1969, when he was sent by the company to Europe to open up the securities market, he was noticed by the Rothschild family because of his amazing performance and Jewish identity, and then he was included in the wings.

Xia Yu can know such a deep secret of Soros, also because before he was reborn, Soros, the big man, also participated in the Davos Economic Forum and lived in that hotel.

It can be said that in this world, Xia Yu is the person who knows Soros best, even more than Soros himself.

Seeing that the people around him had an average attitude towards Soros, or even ignored it, the corners of Xia Yu's mouth hooked up a curvature.

Now Soros only has a certain reputation on Wall Street, his net worth is only about 20 million US dollars, and the company's name has just been changed, from the Open Society Fund to the Quantum Fund.

People here would never have imagined that such a white man, who was ordinary on this occasion, would grow into a global financial predator in the future.

As if sensing that someone was paying attention to him, George Soros glanced at him, just in time to meet Xia Yu's gaze, Xia Yu smiled and nodded, George Soros was stunned for a moment, then smiled in return, and continued to look elsewhere.

"What's the matter, Xia Yu, is there anything special about that person?"

Elena noticed Xia Yu's strangeness and asked softly.

"It's nothing, it just feels like he's familiar, but it's not the guy I know. ”

Xia Yu said with a slight smile.

Elena whispered and didn't ask any more questions.

The meeting is about to begin, and everyone is looking for a place to take a seat.

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