August 30, Hoffmann International Headquarters, Zurich.

Due to the rapid expansion of the investment bank, Seaman Investment, which had leased most of the area, had to move out in the middle of the month.

They didn't move far, in a Victorian-style building across an alley from the investment bank.

Deloitte also moved out, a little further away, in another building twenty meters from Hoffman's investment bank's headquarters.

The first floor of the headquarters is divided into different hospitality areas, each belonging to different departments, and on the innermost side, the working area of the information center.

The second and third floors belong to the Financial Investment Bank and the Equity Investment Bank, respectively, and only in one corner of the second floor, there are several offices that belong to another unnamed EOT oil company.

Jonas's office is on the fourth floor, where there is only a small stage and a large conference room, in addition to a three-bedroom classical suite for Ursula.

In addition to the parking lot, the basement is the database and security center of the information center.

Best led a team of six people to build a three-dimensional security center from the basement to the attic on the fifth floor.

In the large conference room on the fourth floor, all the senior leaders of Hoffmann International gathered today to make final arrangements for the reorganization of Hoffman International for a month.

Around the oval round table, more than a dozen figures seemed to be disorganized, but they sat around with Jonas as the center with a clear boundary.

On the periphery, dozens of figures sat against the wall, staring at these figures in the middle, each full of longing.

"Hoffmann International is a capital parent company with a controlling majority, and the company does not have middle management, only senior management dominated by myself and Schwarch Consultants.

The headquarters has three subordinate organizations, namely the human resources company, with Jacob Hoffmann as president, the Asset Audit Center, with Brüti Wolff as president, and the Information Management and Technology Sharing and Security Center, with Professor Gloponte as president, and Best Zion as the director of the security center. ”

Jonas turned to Ursula and said: "Hoffman Equity Investment Bank, with Ursula Santo Domingo as president, is the most staffed and complex of Hoffman's affiliates. It will develop as a semi-independent institution, with a certain degree of autonomy in terms of specific operations, except that the equity is controlled by Hoffmann International. Due to the large number of employees in equity investment banks, they are not within the scope of discussion at the meeting today. ”

At present, the equity investment bank controls more than 100 manufacturers, with more than 500 senior management personnel and more than 100,000 employees.

Hoffmann International will only interfere in the direction of its business, and will not be involved in specific management.

If you are in charge of everything, Hoffmann International needs at least a management team of 500 people to control these companies, not to mention the hassle and effort, and it will directly affect the operation of these companies, which is not necessarily a good thing.

The Center for Information Management and Technology Sharing and Security, led by Jonas' teacher, Professor Gloponte, is primarily for these companies.

"Hoffman Financial Investment Bank, a financial investment bank mainly focused on private equity funds, is under the dual management of Hoffman International and the Partners' Conference. Jim Rogers, president of the company, and Heim Hugo serve as vice president and chairman of the supervisory board. ”

This pair of rivals was arranged by Jonas, and Jim Rogers needed to be restrained, and there was no better candidate than Professor Hugo.

It can be said that if it were not for Jim Rogers as president, Professor Heim Hugo probably would not have accepted Jonas's offer.

Rogers glanced at Professor Hugo with a smile, but the arrogant Professor Hugo looked at him coldly.

Jonas didn't care about what happened between them, in fact, there was no personal grudge between them, it was purely a contradiction of academic concepts.

"The investment bank is currently divided into three investment groups, with myself as the leader of Group A, Jim as the leader of Group B, and Bennett as Group leader C. ”

Bennett breathed a long sigh of relief, and now that the dust had settled, his heart was finally able to put his mind at ease.

The name of the investment group is small, but it has a lot of power. The three investment groups are not divided into specific investment businesses except for Jonas's group, and Rogers' group B will be responsible for the operation of the financial, futures, foreign exchange, and stock markets.

The current main business of Group C in charge of Bennett is responsible for Dongying's foreign exchange, stock market, real estate investment, and has independent operation rights in the Far East.

Although the group in charge of Jonas did not divide the specific business, it will definitely split part of the business from Rogers' business in the future, and it will not affect Bennett's power.

In addition to the basic business of the stock market, futures, foreign exchange, and treasury bonds, financial investment banks can also become a regulatory tool for real enterprises.

Most of the world's pure financial investment companies, at least more than half, are regulatory instruments of large enterprises.

For example, if I produce oil, in order to adjust the profit of oil, I will carry out long-term arbitrage and hedging on futures, regardless of whether the price of oil rises or falls in the future, the impact on the company is not great.

The price of oil will rise in the future, I will make money on oil spot trading, and a slight loss in the futures market will not affect the overall profit. If the price of oil falls, I make a lot of money in the secondary market, and it will not affect my profits.

So when Jonas had already decided to go into oil development, the role of financial investment banks was very important.

At present, these employees of the company, although the investment will not be the same for each operation, are all-rounders, but each person still has his most basic positioning.

For example, if you are in charge of the oil field, you will not dominate copper futures, and if you are responsible for the foreign exchange field, you will not dominate the stock market operation.

Segregating these responsibilities is not something that Jonas needs to worry about.

EOT Oil's business and personnel structure had little to do with today's meeting, and after the meeting had assigned senior personnel, everyone signed a non-compete agreement with Jonas.

Non-compete agreements, which are very common among top managers in companies where information flow is very important, such as Bennett, if he wants to leave Hoffman Investment Bank, at least for two years, are not allowed to work in other companies of the same nature.

Even if you resign and continue to engage in financial investment, you will not be allowed. Only after this period will they be allowed to continue to work of the same nature.

On the contrary, in some traditional industries with basic management, the role of managers has been reduced, and there are not many non-compete agreements.

Like Bob Lutz, he served as a senior president of Ford, BMW, Chrysler and other car companies, but leaving one company was able to work directly in another company.

After the non-compete agreement is signed, the staff of each department leaves, and they meet separately to assign work.

In the large conference room, only the management of Hoffman International and the leadership of EOT Oil Company remained.

EOT Oil has just been established and is not well known, but it has already received a high level of attention from the industry.

Not to mention anything else, Angola alone has the right to explore and develop oil, which can easily sell for $3 billion now that eight oil fields have been discovered.

Due to the initial development, Jonas used the power of the alliance of interests, and in the hands of Jonas, there were still very few talents of his own.

EOT is a big fat company, but Jonas doesn't even have his own management structure in his hands.

In oil exploration, he used the power of transoceanic drilling, and in oil development, he now hangs other oil companies, and the refining, transportation, and sales of oil are basically handed over to Rich.

So the biggest problem Jonas is facing now is to populate the structure of EOT Oil.

However, it was very difficult.

It is unrealistic for him to monopolize the most lucrative upstream links alone, and he has no strength to compete with those oil companies.

So he needs to choose a partner he can trust.

The best partners are, of course, Rich and Green, but they are now wanted, and they will only secretly have a certain interest, and will not become overt shareholders.

Choosing which forces to become shareholders and who to choose into the company's management is more difficult than the restructuring of Hoffmann's investment bank.

At the moment, Jonas has only his eye on Hubert Perodo, who is sure he can control the other side. But it is also because his strength is not strong enough, and when they unite, they are far from enough to compete with other forces.

The best way is of course to transfer a part of the shares directly to the big oil companies, but there is a serious problem that Angola is still under the control of the Soviet Union, and they will not want to see Western oil companies dominate Angolan oil.

Moreover, Angola is now in very big trouble.

UNITA leader Savimbi relied on "fight-and-run" guerrilla warfare and diamond smuggling to reorganize his ranks and expand his territory.

The participation of the Rainbow Nation in the war this year gave Savimbi strong confidence and decided to overthrow the rule of dos Santos.

Santos, believing that the Angolan army, which had received foreign aid, was already capable of fighting independently, and that it was time to teach the Rainbow Nation and its lackey UNITA a lesson, so he decided to launch the "Welcoming October" campaign and occupy Mawinga, the base camp of UNITA.

However, Cuban military advisers believe that the ANA is ill-prepared, especially because it does not take into account the impact of the Rainbow State's military strength on the war.

Dos Santos mistakenly thought that the Cubans were cowardly, and felt that Soviet transport planes were sending a large number of weapons to Angola every day, some of which were advanced weapons for the first time, so the battle was secure.

But Jonas knows very well that this is the biggest crisis Santos has ever faced, and that this year and next year, Santos will suffer the biggest defeat.

Moreover, it was Hoffmann Oil that originally signed the agreement with Angola. Now that Hoffmann no longer exists, the first thing to do is to re-sign an agreement with Angola in the name of EOT.

The war is poised to break out, Santos is suffering from internal and external troubles, and the Angolan regime is in danger. At this time, Jonas wanted to go to Angola to protect his interests.

He himself knew that it was just a false alarm, and that by next winter, the war would be mediated and Santos would secure the presidency.

But he ignored it, and the others didn't know, and they all thought that his opportunity had come.