Just when Huaying Han Shantong knew the news and hurriedly rushed over, Prudential Insurance really raised objections to the price of acquiring AIA. The company hopes to reduce the acquisition amount to around $30 billion. If this is the responsibility of CEO Robert Benmerche, it is easy to say. As long as there is a suitable reason, the price will be reduced, and the government is waiting to collect the money anyway. Unfortunately, there is also a board chairman, Harvey Grober, who restricts him. Prudential's request was rejected without any room for negotiation.

Similarly, AIA's outright refusal allowed Prudential's board of directors to veto the acquisition. The day after the takeover failed, Mark Tucker (Chinese named Du Jiaqi), the former president of Prudential and who had been in charge of Prudential's Asian business for 11 years, chose to resign. Things are moving in the direction of the Four Elephants Fund.

Although the matter became clearer and clearer, Zhou Shi couldn't go over immediately, and negotiated with Gao Xiqing for several days, and after Han Santong arrived, he also learned about Miramax's situation in detail. At the same time, Wu Kebo of Orange Sky Golden Harvest also took the opportunity to come to the door and seek opportunities for cooperation. Huayi, Bona is not far behind, and they all know the news.

"This time the matter is very simple, Miramax sold part of the equity at a valuation of one billion dollars, and in addition to the corresponding equity acquisition funds, he also had to provide me with a loan according to the ratio of the investment amount to one. This is the basic condition, if we are willing to accept this condition, we will continue, and if we are not willing, forget it. In addition, I want to retain a controlling stake, which means that I will transfer a maximum of about 45 percent of the Miramax shares. "Zhou Shi

"No wonder so many people know the news this time, I see!" someone muttered to himself, although he was dissatisfied with such conditions, but he did not directly refute it.

"Mr. Zhou, is it you or Starlight Film and Television who retains the controlling stake?"

"This has nothing to do with Starlight, they don't have preferential treatment. It's not that I directly control, it's an industrial fund that I control, but I basically don't care about the specific operation. "Zhou Shi

"In that case, how can you guarantee his value?" Wu Kebo

"This is a matter for all shareholders and the company's management, don't need to ask me! I only guarantee that Miramax is worth the money now, and as for the future, ......" Zhou Shi didn't say, MMP, do you want your mother-in-law to guarantee that you have a child after marrying a daughter-in-law? Isn't this your own business?

"Mr. Zhou, your conditions are too harsh, we are paying double the price to buy this share, can the proportion of borrowing be less?" Wang Zhongjun

"Yes!" Zhou Shi

"Can you only borrow half of the percentage?" said Wang Zhongjun

"You can go and work with other companies. Zhou Shi Bafeng did not move, and said calmly

"You can look at Miramax's results last year and the first quarter of this year, if it weren't for me, who would have the opportunity to invest in it at a billion-dollar valuation. As long as Miramax goes public, I think the $1.5 billion valuation should not be a problem!"

"In addition, there is only one place for domestic investors, except for Huaying. "Zhou Shi

"What if Huaying doesn't vote?"

"Huaguang (CCTV's parent company), Shangying and Changying can be, the important thing is the identity of the state-owned enterprise to prepare for the next thing!" Zhou Shi, these companies are the only two shareholders of overseas film import and distribution companies in the country.

"What's the matter?"

"Huaying can designate a company to cooperate, and the two of you will not exceed 15% of the shares, and after calling the deposit, you can know our next action plan! But if you don't cooperate, and there is no leakage, this deposit will not be returned until this time next year at the longest, of course, in that case, we will compensate for the loss of interest. "Zhou Shi

"If you don't say anything, how can we cooperate?"

"Huatou prepared billions of dollars for me without asking anything, isn't my personal credibility worth a billion dollars?" Zhou Shi

"It's not that we don't believe in Mr. Zhou, the main thing is that there is no precedent for such a thing," Yu Dong said

"It's there now, forget it, I've said everything that needs to be said, you can choose for yourself!" Zhou Shi didn't talk nonsense, and left the conference room directly

Seeing Zhou Shi leaving, everyone sighed for a while, and it was not easy to do it.

"If Mr. Han doesn't want to invest, can you help me get these shares, I am willing to pay a service fee to Huaying. "Zhang Zhao

"You can't sing a double reed!" Wang Zhongjun

"Hehe~~" Zhang Zhao didn't explain, pretending to smile profoundly. That's how a straw bag would think like this, a billionaire with a ten-billion-dollar level, most of the industries in China, deliberately called the bigwigs of the domestic film and television industry to fool around, does Zhou Shi have a problem with his brain?

"Does Mr. Zhang know what Mr. Zhou's plan is?"

"I really don't know about this, but Mr. Zhou went to Japan after returning to China, and then returned to the United States, and he has many industries, so it's too difficult to guess what the specific things are. Zhang Zhao said honestly, no matter what they were worried about, Zhang Zhao had a lot of confidence in Zhou Shi.

"Is he out of money?" said Wang Zhongjun

"Maybe, maybe it's a lack of money. Zhang Zhao said insincerely, but it was the core, if it weren't for the lack of money, Zhou Shi would not have used such a troublesome routine.

According to Miramax's results last year, Twilight's next box office will not be much worse. Next, there will be a series of movies such as "The Hunger Games", "Source Code", "Shocking Demon Thieves", "Super Body", etc., as for small and medium-sized costs and agency distribution, there are not a few, and they are still seeking cooperation with Christopher Nolan. After this year, as long as it is listed, the market value will be at least 1.5 billion, and 2 billion US dollars can also be expected.

Zhou Shi's success overseas has stimulated a large number of domestic careerists, not to mention projects with a high probability of success, even if they are very risky, there are still people who invest. Unigroup's confidence in investing in Hynix was beyond Zhou Shi's expectations, and he didn't have much confidence, but now it seems that the probability of Zhao Weiguo's success is still very high. The combined asset of Miramax and Summit Entertainment is a high-quality asset, or Zhou Shi believes in Rob Freman's ability, as evidenced by the success of Summit Entertainment in his previous life. A person who has no shortage of publicity and distribution channels and excellent production ability can't run this film company well, then it can only be said that he is unlucky.

Zhou Shi soon received good news, Huaying Han Santong decided to invest in Miramax, but the partner he chose was Huayi Brothers, and he didn't choose Starlight Film and Television probably because he was worried that the two sides would partner with Huaying. If that's the case, I have to say that he thinks too much.

"Mr. Zhou, I have worked so hard and I have gained nothing, do you want to make up for it?" Zhang Zhao joked in Zhou Shi's company

"Okay, you guys should make an alliance with Disney!" Zhou Shi

"Ah~ really?" Zhang Zhao

"No, I can't decide something like that. Zhou Shi threw him down and began his next action.

(End of chapter)