Chapter 591: Acquisition of AIA
What is the purpose of the announcement of the financial reports of Guoke and Friends.com, those who should know will naturally know, and those who should not know will be difficult to know for the time being. After Zhou Shi arrived in Xiangjiang, before he had time to show his strength, he was warmly and kindly received by the people of AIG, and he still had a lot of backhands that he didn't have time to use. For example, he contacted a number of consortia to participate in the international placement of AIA at that time, including Fuxing Guo Guangchang and Li Bancheng, all of whom donated their previous suspicions and hoped that they would cooperate with the action. There are also local tyrant sovereign wealth funds in Singapore and the Middle East, as long as AIA refuses to cooperate this time, not to mention 100 percent, more than 80 percent may acquire more than 20 percent of AIA's shares at the same time as listing. If it drags on for a while and waits for AIG to return the funds to the U.S. Treasury, does it need to be said that the result will be said? As for how many dangers will be in the middle, whether there will be white knights, that's another matter. Zhou Shi believes that with the IPO of Guoke Company as bait, he will not have many real opponents.
The relationship that had been brewing for a long time was gently put down, and looking at the signed contract, Zhou Shi seemed to be in a dream.
"Can they still go back? Are you sure there is no legal loophole in this?" Zhou Shi asked the barrister in charge of their acquisition in disbelief.
"I can responsibly say that there is no problem in this, as long as our funds can arrive on time, the control of AIA will be transferred to the hands of the Four Elephants Fund. "Lawyer
"Is there a problem with our funds?" Zhou Shi asked the chief financial officer of Galaxy Capital and Sixiang Fund.
"No problem!" "No problem!" the two said in unison
"So the friendly countries are ours?" Zhou Shi asked Hu Guniu and Yuan Tianfa again
"Yes, AIA is ours!" Hu Guniu also held back his excitement
"That's right! we succeeded!" Yuan Tianfa shouted
"Oh!" Zhou Shi didn't suppress his feelings, and also called out, and the whole room suddenly resounded with earth-shattering cheers!
From the end of the financial crisis to the present, Zhou Shi has been eyeing AIA for almost two years, during which his industry has undergone many adjustments, and now it is finally close to Dacheng.
His two main assets are Galaxy Capital and Sixiang Fund, of which Galaxy Capital is responsible for overseas investment, mainly including Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, Qinglong and White Tiger funds, which are high-risk hedge funds, equity and fixed income funds, venture capital funds and private equity funds. There is also a U.S. bank with assets of more than $100 billion: East West Bank. Galaxy Capital also wholly owns Singapore Chartered Semiconductor and Saab Motors, controls Micron Technology, OV OmniVision Technology and Avago Semiconductor, and enters the boards of Milbank Securities, Moody's, Mastercard (originally intended to be on the board of Visa, but unfortunately the company's market value is too high), ARM, Chery Automobile, Yahoo, Costco and other companies (holding more than 5% of the shares have the opportunity to enter)
After this time, in addition to its own fund business, Sixiang Fund also controlled Spreadtrum Communications, Modu Securities, AIA, Ningde New Energy, Visionox Display, Huiyuan Juice, Lao Fengxiang, Huaxing Optoelectronics, SAIC, Shanghai Jahwa, Gree Electric, Hengrui Pharmaceutical, etc., and other companies invested in Geely Automobile, Evergrande Shares, Sunac Shares, Wanda Commercial and other companies will not be detailed one by one.
As for the shares of Baidu and Ahri, they are also distributed in the names of those two fund companies, but they are not in the plan of all actions, and even made a security isolation. Of course, there are also the time holding system (including the friend network) and the husk nut system, which do not need to be detailed, and Starlight Film and Television are also self-contained.
Finally, there are the properties under his name, 10% of Time Holdings, 12% of Amazon, 6% of Baidu, 1.5% of Apple, 9.9% of Netflix, 4.5% of Disney, and YELP, which was valued at $3 billion in the last round, and he holds more than 80% of the shares. As the stock prices of these companies have risen all the way, his apparent net worth has reached $17 billion. This made a lot of rich people in China out of reach, and some people even paraphrased Jack Ma's words, and they couldn't see their opponents with binoculars.
Although the dust has not yet settled, the Sixiang Fund, which signed the agreement, still had a small celebration, and several main leaders and some core members gathered for dinner. Zhou Shi's consistent caution makes him not easy to relax, and he will not take it lightly if he does not actually control the board of directors of AIA. In the next few days, in addition to dealing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, it is to send people to communicate with the regulatory authorities of various countries. Although no one in the public knows the news yet, it is not a secret to Xiangjiang's top billionaires and world-class financial giants. Wealthy people in Xiangjiang, including Li Bancheng and Zheng Yutong, came to the Peninsula Hotel, where Zhou Shi's team (although Sixiang Fund has an office in Xiangjiang, but due to status problems, the space is not large) to congratulate him. Before winning AIA, Zhou Shi's foundation was not solid in their eyes, and the risks of high-tech enterprises were still too great in their eyes. AIA is different, it is a long-established company with roots in Hong Kong and a broad reputation base. Just like Li Bancheng's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa, this is a qualitative leap.
Not to mention the acceptance of Zhou Shi by the rich people in Xiangjiang, this is an inevitable thing, and Xiangjiang is not his main battlefield, he and most of the rich people have no interest disputes, and the relationship between them will not be very bad.
This time, in addition to 30.88% of AIA's shares, the Four Elephants Fund will also subscribe for about 5% of the shares at the time of the IPO, and the price range of the IPO has been set, and the maximum market value is 30.5 billion US dollars, which is actually the same as the price in the previous life, but unfortunately Zhou Shi does not know. The total cost is therefore expected to reach up to $12 billion. No matter where this money came from, being able to mobilize such a huge sum of money is in itself a testament to Zhou Shi's ability.
For this reason, he had to continue to cash out from A-shares, for example, SAIC, the largest head, took advantage of the sharp rise in stock prices these days, and cashed out 5.1% at a discount, taking over a consortium composed of state-owned funds. In fact, it is not much, counting the appreciation of the RMB, but it is about 1.3 billion US dollars, and the previous investment has been fully recovered, and 9.9% of the shares are considered pure profits. Especially this time, although the discount transfer, it is actually still at a high point, and if there is no support from the state, how can there be such a quick pick-up in China. Besides, it has to be reviewed by the Securities Regulatory Commission, so it must not be delayed. The same is true for the share transfer of Datang and SMIC, I heard that this takeover, China Life and Ping An invested a lot, which can be regarded as a punishment for them.
(End of chapter)