512 A New Situation in the United States
Before you know it, the time has entered March.
On March 15th, Skyline Real Estate's 5-star golf resort in Malibu ceased operations since two days ago, and was chartered by Blackwater Thor and Northrop Grumman.
In the past two days, bigwigs from all over the United States, political and business tycoons have gathered here one after another, yes, the merger of the two major companies of Blackwater Thor and Northrop Grumman has finally come to fruition, and even the agreement has been signed in private, and it is about to be announced to the public and approved by the government Congress.
At this time, in the presidential suite on the top floor of the hotel, Li Feng, several major management personnel of Blackwater Thunder Company, and several of their closest partners all gathered together to discuss and chat.
"John, will you sign in person or will I sign on behalf of the company?" Rumsfeld jokingly asked Li Feng.
"Ram, I'll forget it, you should sign on behalf of the company, you're the CEO of the company, aren't you?" Li Feng shrugged his shoulders at the crowd with his wine glass in his glass, and replied indifferently.
"Hi... John, you don't look like a young man at all!"
"I was your praise for me at that time, if I really looked like a young man, maybe I would not have my current achievements, Chinese people have a saying called 'there must be gains and losses', there is no perfect life, I think it makes sense, I have achieved career success, but lost the vitality of childhood and youth. Li Feng replied with a little pretending to be 13 fans, which made everyone laugh.
"Also, then you, as the person behind the US imperialist super military industrial complex, do you have any new instructions for the new company?" David Rockefeller, an old fellow, also joked with a smile at this time.
"I'm a controller, and I can't control it!" Li Feng replied with a smile.
"Damn... , John, you still want to directly control the new company, your heart is really big enough!" Hearing Li Feng's words and expression, Kenny, who was on the side, couldn't help but exclaim.
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Think about it, for example, companies like Loma and Boeing, the government will not allow individuals to take control, even if you hide your wealth or something, it will be difficult to directly control it in the end, mainly because the competition for those shares is too fierce.
Now, Li Feng has so many shares in the new company, or thanks to the merger trend in recent years, so that Li Feng has money to buy directly, if the companies directly merge with each other, it will lead to the company's shares are more dispersed.
The merger of the two companies is actually more appropriate for Blackwater Thor to merge with Northrop Grumman, just as the economy in the United States is developing upward, and some of the shareholders of Northrop Grumman are also interested in selling some shares.
There is also the wave of mergers and acquisitions of large American military enterprises formed in the 90s, so that Northrop Grumman does not mind mergers, after all, Northrop Grumman Company thought about merging with Loma before, saying that it was a merger, but in fact, it was also acquired and merged by Loma Company.
It's a pity that the two companies signed a contract and waited for the government and Congress to approve it, but because of anti-monopoly reasons, they were finally vetoed by the government, and they resorted to the newly merged Blackwater Thunder God Company, which cheapened Li Feng and gave Li Feng a chance.
In this merger, Blackwater Raytheon quoted a total of $26 billion for Northrop Grumman before it was officially closed, which is naturally a premium, and now the market value of the two companies is about the same, around $20 billion.
Speaking of which, Blackwater Raytheon is the first listed company under Li Feng, and because Raytheon is a listed company, Blackwater Raytheon has become a listed company.
Last year, the revenue of the entire Blackwater Raytheon Company was about $8.5 billion, and the revenue of Northrop Company was about $9 billion.
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In the original history, Northrop was still stronger than Raytheon, and was known as the third pole after Loma and Boeing in the United States.
However, in this life, due to Li Feng's involvement before, he directly merged Blackwater, TR, Litton and other military companies, resulting in the Blackwater Thor Company in this life is definitely more powerful than the Thor Company in the previous life, comparable to Northrop.
With a total offer of $26 billion, Li Feng privately has to bear $10.4 billion in cash, plus about 44% of the shares he previously occupied in Blackwater Thor, and almost 42% of the shares of the new company after the merger, the absolute largest shareholder, and may even have unlimited possibilities for controlling in the future.
Li Feng is willing to spend more money and want more shares, even if others don't know how many shares Li Feng has in the giant, but unfortunately no one is willing to let Li Feng get more shares, Northrop Grumman is willing to sell 40% of the shares in cash at most, and the rest are counted as new company shares.
Of course, on the bright side, Li Feng only occupies about 6% of the shares now, and the rest are led in the form of funds, each fund occupies less than 1% of the shares, and there are 40 of these funds alone, which is really cumbersome to look at.
The $10.4 billion was temporarily backed by the four major companies of Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Americas, and Li Feng's Standard Chartered, and Li Feng privately reached an agreement with the big four banks to pledge 20% of the new company's shares, which is a two-year loan.
As for Li Feng's repayment method with the four major banks, even if it is tax evasion and tax avoidance here, that is, after the maturity, Li Feng will pay a total of 30% of the interest, that is to say, the $104, and after 2 years, Li Feng will pay a total of $13.52 billion to others.
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According to the loan interest rate of the United States, this interest rate is obviously too high, this is simply usury, but these funds are directly traded outside the United States, and several major banks also put this money directly in accounts outside the United States, after all, you need to pay taxes when you transfer back to the United States, and no one will be so stupid.
Besides, like Citigroup, Wells Fargo and other world banks, they also need a large amount of foreign funds to facilitate international transactions, transfer and investment, and both parties have avoided high taxes, whether it is for Li Feng or major banks, it is a very cost-effective transaction, achieving a win-win situation.
Otherwise, why did later generations always reveal which bank was fined by the government for tax evasion or participating in illegal transactions of companies, in fact, the funds outside were placed in this form.
Strictly speaking, Li Feng's transactions with major banks are obviously illegal. However, obviously, no one will explain it directly, and it becomes an invisible rule.
In the same way, it can also be seen how important it is to have a global bank, which is the foundation of a global consortium, and no matter where it develops, it is inseparable from the support of banks, and it is no wonder that Wall Street can control the global economy.
I have to say that Li Feng has barely made up for his shortcomings now, and the acquisitions of Standard Chartered and Standard Bank are generally too cost-effective.
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This is one of the reasons why, for example, it is so difficult for domestic companies in China to acquire foreign companies, while it is so easy for foreign companies to acquire large global companies, which have a lot of money abroad that can be used anytime and anywhere without worrying about government investigations.
In the later generations, many domestic companies in China participated in global acquisitions, but in the process of acquisition, it was clear that domestic companies had a large amount of cash, but often had to raise funds outside, and most of them had to rely on those global financial giants.
In fact, in it, on the one hand, there is the overall hostility between the East and the West, and on the other hand, the government is worried about the outflow of a large amount of funds, and will monitor the flow of large sums of money from enterprises.
In Li Feng's view, the super-rich in later generations of Huaxia can actually buy banks abroad and form their own banking and financial companies, after all, domestic banks are state-controlled, and if there are banks abroad, it will be very beneficial for the company's global expansion.
With the merger of Northrop Grumman and Blackwater Raytheon, a new situation was born for the American military company, which was different from the previous Loma family. Similarly, it opened up a new situation for Li Feng in the United States.
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