"Damn nouveau riche!"

"Damn the dwarf!"

"Damn Yankees!"

"It's all bad!"

In the luxurious living room of the Keswick family, the two brothers John Sr., Niu Bijian, and Henry and Charles sat around the table, and the youngest Charles Keswick couldn't help but scold, obviously very angry.

Seeing his youngest son's gaffe, Old John rarely did not educate him, because at this time he also had an ugly face and was very sad.

Just because they basically returned in vain, at most, Old John mobilized his connections and acquired 1.1% of the shares from only a small shareholder, but the price was a premium of 100%, no way, the situation was urgent, Old John gritted his teeth and agreed, raising the proportion of equity he held to 38.2%.

But despite the acquisition of 1.1% of the shares, the high price has also hurt him, and it is foreseeable that the impact will be even greater later.

After all, the premium is 100% at the beginning, and if you want to buy the shares in other people's hands later, the price will only be high and not low, especially for major shareholders with more shares, the price will be higher.

No, everyone else has returned in vain!

Just now they all talked about their actions and the situation, and the results were not optimistic.

Since the Galaxy Fund shouted a high-profile 30% stake in Jardine Machinery Group, although I don't know whether it is true or not, it is estimated that it is not much worse.

As a result, the Galaxy Fund has become the second largest shareholder of Jardine Matheson Holdings, with a difference of 78% from their Keswick family.

With so many shares, it is absolutely impossible to acquire them through bulk shares, and there are definitely people among the top ten shareholders who are accomplices.

So Old John checked for the first time, called one by one to ask, and finally found that three of the nine shareholders except himself were accomplices who sold their shares to Xia Yu, and the remaining six shareholders did not sell their shares.

It's just that these six shareholders each made Old John tricky, and let everyone touch the ashes of the nose back.

The second largest shareholder, Cummins Inc., a multinational company that manufactures power equipment, holds 6.37% of the shares.

The third largest shareholder, Temasek Holdings, a Singaporean state-owned company in the guise of a private company, holds 5.24% of the shares.

Nomura Securities, the fourth largest shareholder, is now one of the top ten in the securities industry of the island country and the largest in the island country in the future, with a shareholding ratio of 4.99%.

The seventh largest shareholder, Daiwa Securities, holds 2.76% of the shares.

The ninth largest shareholder, Bank of China Investment, holds 2.54% of the shares.

The tenth largest shareholder, Goldman Sachs Group of the United States, holds 2.49% of the shares.

None of these six major shareholders is a simple commodity, the United States Cummins Inc., the island country Nomura Securities and the island country Yamato Securities, behind them all stand giant consortiums.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a multinational giant in its own right, one of the top five investment banks on Wall Street.

Temasek Holdings and Bank of Hong Kong, not to mention the former is a Singaporean state-owned enterprise in the guise of a private company that is regulated by Singapore's Ministry of Finance, and the latter is the face of the mainland in Hong Kong.

The six major shareholders, except for Cummins Inc. of the United States, need to leverage the influence and strength of Jardine Machinery Group in Southeast Asia and Australia because of business needs, so as to deepen the relationship between the shares.

The other five shareholders hold Jardine Machinery Group for almost all purposes, and these five companies are all the same in essence, all of which are investment banks.

It stands to reason that for a listed company, the stronger the shareholder strength, the greater the benefit to the company, because the market will have more confidence in the company.

The five major shareholders of Jardine Machinery Group are still giants in the investment community, which can give strong support to the share price of Jardine Machinery Group.

If it was peacetime, it would have been good, and John Sr. would have liked to have a few more of these strong partners.

But there are pros and cons to everything.

Don't forget that the capitalists are also the most ruthless, and profit comes first.

What's more, these investment banks are based on the principle of profit above all else?

No one has the nose of these investments, and the level of greed is not as good as that of these investment banks.

As soon as the Galaxy Fund announced that it would hold 30% of its shares and issued a takeover offer for Jardine Machinery Group, these five companies immediately ordered a ban on the sale of Jardine Machinery Group's shares, and joined the camp of scrambling for chips, trying to increase their shares a little more, and to speculate the stock price as much as possible no matter how bad it is.

Now, as long as you are not a fool, you can see that the Galaxy Fund is a great threat to the Jardine Matheson consortium, and it has a series of previous victories, so this time the battle will definitely be very fierce, and the stock price will also rise.

These companies have also raised their stock price expectations for Jardine Machinery Group again and again, and they want to take this opportunity to suck blood.

The Keswick family wanted to buy the stock, but was directly frightened back by the lion's big mouth.

As a result, old John can only be blamed for his lack of preparation.

Let's just say that on Xia Yu's side, when Wang Qi bought stocks, he also picked up soft persimmons and pinched them, and bought the shares of the three shareholders who ranked lower, and none of these five shareholders were acquired, and they didn't even ask, for fear of being discovered.

After all, each of these five companies is stronger than Jiuding Securities Company, Jiuding Securities Company is difficult to take, if the contact is not successful, the acquisition intention will be exposed, then trouble will follow.

"Father, it is difficult for us to acquire the shares in the hands of these shareholders, so it will not be easy for Galaxy Fund and Jiuding Securities, and we are safe for the time being. ”

Henry Keswick, who had been sitting quietly, suddenly spoke.

"That's right, chairman, Goldman Sachs Group and Nomura Securities and other lions opened their mouths, we can't stand it, so that Chinese kid shouldn't be able to stand it either. ”

Niu Bijian echoed.

Old John nodded silently, agreeing with the words of the two, but he was very unhappy in his heart, he had always slaughtered others, and now he had become the wronged boss in the eyes of others.

It's all to blame on this Chinese boy, who has taken the initiative to provoke them several times!

Old John hated it.

"Continue to talk to them, ask for the price all over the sky, and pay back the money on the ground. “

"They are all investment companies, and holding shares is also for financial investment, as long as the price is up, there is nothing they don't sell, and now they are opening such a high price, just to sell at a higher price. ”

"But now it seems that the two little dwarfs, Nomura Securities and Daiwa Securities, are the most greedy, with a combined 7.75% stake, they have a very hard backing, and we can only use normal business methods, which is the most difficult, and put it in the end. ”

"The 2.54% stake in the Bank of China in Xiangjiang is also very difficult, I estimate that the Chinese kid will be easier to get it, continue to send people to talk, if we can't get it, we will also raise the price to me, and consume his funds. ”

"The group of Jews at Goldman Sachs is no worse than the dwarfs, and it is too difficult to take them down, so continue to talk. ”

"The remaining Temasek and Cummins companies, the two shareholders together hold 11.61% of the shares, as long as they get their hands, they will immediately be close to the 50% line, and the crisis will be directly resolved, focusing on these two shareholders. ”

Old John analyzed, and the two brothers, Niu Bijian and Henry, nodded in unison.

"Niu Bijian, you are in charge of Cummins Inc., and try to buy the stock. ”

"Okay chairman!"

Niu Bijian solemnly commanded.

Old John bowed slightly, his sharp gaze moved to the left, paused on Charles for a second, and then focused on Henry in Charles's lost gaze.

"Henry, you are in the name of your family to contact Temasek in Singapore, and on my behalf, you have sent a call request to the Lee Kuang Yao government. ”

"Okay!"

Henry Keswick said solemnly.

Although Singapore now has a hint of the atmosphere of the Asian Tigers, after all, it has not been independent for many years, and it is still independent with the support of Britain and the United States, and the Singapore government is still very dependent on Britain.

As the first British-funded consortium in the Far East, John Sr., as the head of the Jardine Matheson Foundation, will not be much worse than Li Guangyao, the current Prime Minister of Singapore, and he is definitely qualified to apply for a call to Li Guangyao, and Li Guangyao will definitely agree.

It's just that this will seem to be a loss of face, and it will owe Li Guangyao a favor.

It's just that in order to win the 5.24% stake in the hands of Singapore's Temasek Investment Company as soon as possible, Old John can't care so much, it is more important to keep Jardine Machinery Group and stabilize the situation!