At the same time as the tender offer announcement, Digital Domain CEO Xie An and Chairman Zhou Yongming also received a letter from the offeror, Rui, to the Group.

Both of them were stunned, and they lost their positions as major shareholders for some reason.

Zhou Yongming is older, and he is also the co-founder of HTC, known as the godfather of smartphones in Taiwan.

So he was more calm and comforted: "Don't worry, the purpose of Ruixiang is to privatize the company and delist it."

After the court hearing, an extraordinary general meeting will be convened.

Approval is required by 75% of the votes of independent shareholders who vote and no more than 10% of the votes against the resolution.

The most important thing is, can Ruixiang accept nearly 40% of the shares?

If Ruixiang, as the offeror, is unable to acquire 90% of the shares held by all independent shareholders, then the acquisition cannot be compulsory, the offer is invalid, and the shares are returned. ”

Xie An nodded, "If we object, then his privatization will not be completed at all." ”

Thinking of this, Xie An took a reassuring pill, and he was not as flustered as he was just now.

If the privatization is not successful, Ruixiang is also the majority shareholder of Digital Domain. ”

Zhou Yongming's face was not very good-looking, and then he speculated all kinds of serious consequences.

Xie An frowned, placing, rights issue, spin-off, merger, reorganization...... Major shareholders can play all kinds of tricks to make small shareholders immortal.

In the past, how they played with minority shareholders, Ruixiang could use the same means to concoct them.

"Then what should I do now? Sell the shares to Zhang Yida and admit defeat and quit?"

Xie An was young and vigorous, and he was a little unwilling to stop there.

"Talk to Zhang Yida and see what he wants?"

Zhou Yongming said very calmly, "If he wants special effects business, we will give it to him."

But the VR business, we must keep. ”

Xie An shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid not, the special effects business is purely a bunch of burdens, Ruixiang has content production needs, but you can find Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital to cooperate, and you don't need to raise a special effects team."

I guess he must have taken a fancy to our VR technology and team foundation and didn't want to start from scratch. ”

Zhou Yongming lowered his head and thought about it, the only bargaining chip they had in their hands at the moment was to block Ruixiang's privatization of Digital Domain.

If you really want to do that, everyone will probably have to spend it in this quagmire.

Rui Xiang's family has a big business, but he doesn't care about such three melons and two dates.

But they can't, Digital Domain will be scrapped, and their personal assets will also shrink greatly.

If it's just a battle of will, it's not worth it to retaliate against others, add blockage to others, and take your own hundreds of millions of assets.

"That's it!"

Zhou Yongming thought of a good way, he said to Xie An: "You go and talk to Zhang Yida, we can help Ruixiang complete the privatization, but the condition is ......"

Xie An frowned, "Will this work?" I'm afraid he won't agree, right?"

Zhou Yongming said lightly, "You just do what I say, Zhang Yida is a smart person, and it is more beneficial for him to know what to do."

Judging from the failure of negotiations and the launch of a tender offer, his high hopes for the VR industry are not inferior to you and me.

has been dragging on, and everyone loses both.

For a large group like Ruixiang, time is the most precious.

Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, HTC, and Facebook have all run so far, and he is still spending time with us, I don't believe he is not in a hurry at all. ”

......

"Mr. Zhang, we have no other requirements, we just want to keep a R&D team. ”

In Beijing, Xie An came to Ruixiang Group and discussed a solution with Zhang Yida.

Zhang Yida didn't speak, raised his hand, "Drink tea!"

Xie Ancha was almost full, but Zhang Yida never gave him an answer.

"If everyone is taken away by you, then what's the point of me buying Digital Domain?

Zhang Yida felt that the Wanwan people were too pretentious, so he had to agree to it earlier, and he had to use some means himself.

"There are hundreds of engineers in Digital Domain, and I only need a few people, so that's not too much to ask, right?"

Xie An said with a smile, "I'll still say hello to Mr. Zhang in advance, if you don't make a sound, you will poach the person."

Let's not talk about Mr. Zhang, whether you will find me to file a lawsuit, it is more or less unrighteous. ”

Zhang Yida felt that his words seemed to mean something, and Ruixiang's acquisition of Digital Domain was a bit unfair.

A tender offer is inherently a market action, and Digital Domain is not your company alone.

That's a company with all shareholders, if you don't sell, I can't find someone else?

Seeing that Zhang Yida was silent, Xie An said again: "Mr. Zhang, we can pay a liquidated damages of 50 million for this part of the technical personnel."

The condition is that the non-compete agreement is terminated. ”

"Take 50 million, let go of the most precious engineers, and train yourself a future enemy?"

Zhang Yida smiled, "Do you think I'm short of those 50 million people?"

Xie An's eyes flashed with anger, and this feeling of oppressing people with money made him very uncomfortable.

Although he is worth hundreds of millions, he can be regarded as a little rich.

But standing in front of the other party, he had to admit that he was really just a poor.

"Mr. Zhang, 50 million is just an inconspicuous number for you.

But for those of us who are hard entrepreneurs, that's a lot of pressure. ”

Xie Anxu covered it up well, and played a bitter card again at this time.

With his somewhat crooked tone, the painting style is very strange.

If Kurosawa Zhiling said this in front of Zhang Yida, he might have relented and agreed.

But Tama is a greasy man in his thirties, which makes Zhang Yida very disgusted.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Xie, I can't agree to your request. ”

Zhang Yida's tone was flat, "Every engineer is a valuable asset of the company, and Ruixiang is now a major shareholder, and it is also necessary to safeguard the interests of the company and minority shareholders." ”

Hammer minority shareholders, about to be privatized, you tell me about minority shareholders.

Xie An felt that Zhang Yida was too deceitful, and he didn't even meet them with this little request.

This is not only to despise and snub them, but also to think that they are sure to win!

"That's okay, anyway, there are still 21 days before the end of the offer, I hope Mr. Zhang will think about it carefully. ”

Since Zhang Yida didn't give face, Xie An also tore off his mask, and there was a faint threat in his tone.

Zhang Yida naturally knew what the other party was referring to, wasn't it privatization, he was really not in a hurry.

At present, it has been controlled, and the situation has basically stabilized, so there is naturally a way to clean up these thorns.

Even if it can't be privatized in the end, there are many ways to do other things.

"After careful consideration, take the money and leave, everyone will not trouble each other. ”

Zhang Yida smiled, "Of course, if you are willing to stay and build the company together, I also welcome it." ”