Chapter 549: What is earned and what is spent
"How?"
"It was confirmed that a total of 51 percent of the shares, including Morris Greenberg, Hearst Group, were acquired at a valuation of $2 billion, and Amanda Hirst personally held 8 percent.
Another shareholder has just called and asked if we want his shares, and if not, he will choose to agree to Andy Smith's offer, and he has now begun to clear the market.
According to his previous acquisition case, although he is willing to believe in professional managers, what he likes to say most is to hand over professional things to professional people, but the premise is that the company is under his complete control, although he is young, but the control YU is extremely strong, very domineering, in order to fight opponents, he is even willing to bear losses, until all opponents are squeezed out! We have no way to retreat, either inject capital to ensure the proportion of shares, or be slowly diluted by him and become an outsider. ”
"What do you think, Tom?"
"He has already prepared everything, even the middle managers of the TV station have prepared a batch, when I left, I had already entered various departments, it was difficult to make small moves, even if we wanted to do it, we would lose again, there was no way, it was too sudden, he acquired it for several days, and there was no news leaked at all.
The CEO of Rainbow Holdings looked at the wry smile on Tom's face, and after a while, he muttered, "You stay at the headquarters first, and at the board meeting in the afternoon, everyone is discussing to see if they continue to invest funds." The TV station that we have been established for more than ten years cannot be taken away by others like this... ”
In order to rapidly expand the strength and do not want to make more investment, this kind of problem will naturally arise in external financing, and there is no way to make any counterattacks, the loyalty of employees?
The news of the change of AMC chairman and CEO has long spread throughout AMC's cable stations and subordinate state and local stations, and Andy's "To All AMC Members" email was also sent, stabilizing the morale of the army at the same time, it also let everyone see Andy's wealth, there is such a boss who is not bad for money, it is only a matter of time before the TV station catches up with HBO, and the happiest, after reading the email, it is the TV drama production center that even all stand up and applaud.
The production center, which has been stuck in the neck by funds, can finally raise its eyebrows, and with a grant of 100 million US dollars, "Mad Men" will start filming soon.
In the afternoon, the people in the production center received a notification that the proposal submitted by Mad Men was approved, and the funds were in place at the same time, and the efficiency was many times faster than before.
After the management video conference, Andy left AMC Cable TV after confirming that the think tank had mastered the finance department and the legal department.
Back at Newsweek Mansion, Andy brought himself a cigar, put his feet on the desk, leaned his back against the back of the boss's chair, squinted slightly, and began to sort out everything that had been going on for a while.
The $4 billion plus $700 million Morgan Stanley preferred stock contracts have all been turned into paper gold, with $5 billion secured against it, and $489 million Goldman Sachs and $978 million Deutsche Bank CDO swap agreement insurance borrowed $1.5 billion from Citibank.
With a total of $6.5 billion in cash, the acquisition of Marvel spent his own $500 million as the principal for a leveraged buyout, although there is a certain risk, but as long as he continues to make profits, he can complete the classic acquisition case of small and large.
On the contrary, AMC Cable TV made him spend a lot of money, 1.1 billion US dollars, although it is all bank money, but he always has to repay interest.
3 BILLION IN THE FREE CITY INVESTMENT COMPANY, BADSTONE LED A GROUP OF JINGYING WITH DOLLAR SIGNS IN THEIR EYES TO ATTACK AROUND THE STOCK MARKET, STAGING THE FINAL MADNESS.
The miscellaneous expenses, the sky palace private jet currently costs 200 million US dollars, the Quicksilver superyacht costs 100 million US dollars, the 120,000-acre super farm under negotiation also costs 60 million, the yacht and farm sent to Theron 20 million, the yachts of Lima and Scarlett 5 million each, three limited edition Ferraris...
By the way, there are also Alibaba's shares, the funds taken away by Li Xiaoying, the acquisition of a modeling agency, and other miscellaneous expenses that cost about 600 million US dollars.
Now he still has $1.3 billion in cash in his account lying down and sleeping, well, and his sports company's plan, which should also cost a lot to implement, and finally has no need to be robbed by the U.S. government to collect taxes.
The United States is a global tax, as long as you are a citizen of the United States, no matter which country you make profits from, you have to collect taxes, why Apple's headquarters in the United States often loses money, and a large amount of cash is placed in foreign transit companies and does not move to the United States, because it does not want to pay taxes.
After 911, the United States also added a predatory tax, the anti-terrorism tax, the compulsory levy, Nima, what kind of bullshit! Otherwise, where would Washington get so much money to wage one war after another.
Andy won't pay a penny more if he spends it all.
Of course, the money that makes a profit from buying stocks and bonds can be exempt from paying taxes, which is also the result of Wall Street's lobbying funds spending a total of $5 billion in the past 10 years, but as long as the money leaves the stock market to do something else, then the tax should still be paid, which is why the big investment banks would rather give bonuses to their employees, because it is better to win the loyalty of their employees than to pay taxes.
Everyone says that in the United States, there is a way to avoid punishment if you are targeted by any department, but the IRS, once it is determined that it is targeted by them, there is no other way than to honestly make up for the punishment and be punished, not to mention the money, even the war wealth of some mercenary companies, and the bloody money plundered from the war zone Du Nima has to pay taxes obediently.
The predecessor of the IRS was established by Lincoln to support attrition in the Civil War, during which many farmers and factory owners were unwilling to pay taxes, hide income, and even violently resist the water.
Later, this authority was retained and improved, the tax department of the United States has its own armed organization, all kinds of weapons are readily available, prisons, courts, and the power to directly implement the freezing of assets without application, the FBI can't bring down the boss of the HEI gang, and the CIA can't handle the transnational crime duke, can't escape the IRS.
Therefore, "don't mess with anyone, don't mess with the IRS"! In the United States, you really need to fix a person, you don't have to do anything else, just find the IRS, because the tax laws in the United States are many and complex, and there is no professional team to take care of them, so it is inevitable that there will be some mistakes.
At about four o'clock, there was a knock on the office door, and the assistant came in and said to Andy, "Boss, someone from Apple has come to deliver a mobile phone." ”
"Well, let him in. Andy lowered his feet, straightened the folds of his shirt, and sat up straight.
Soon a man in a suit with a suitcase walked in with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Smith, this is a crazy phone for you... ”
Andy shook hands with the other party, and when the other party opened the suitcase and took out more than a dozen 8G Love Crazy 1 that will be on sale at 18 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and wanted to explain it to Andy, Andy shook his head with a smile and refused, and was sent away in the other party's somewhat confused expression.
"You pick one and play it. Andy continued to lie back in the boss's chair in a lazy position, holding his crazy mobile phone and starting to play "Fruit Swordsman", the familiar picture, smooth running speed, swords and shadows, and the sound effects that make people breathe are perfect.
Tori took out a phone from his suitcase, closed the case, set it aside, and ran out to play with his new phone.
Andy, who was playing Minecraft, was interrupted by another knock on the door, put his crazy phone on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Come in." ”
Seeing that the little assistant also walked in with an unhappy face, Andy said, "Why don't you use the answering machine?"
"That McMullen has already come, waiting outside in the lounge area with a woman... "Tori is very upset, damn bastard, he actually gave the big demon king LA Pitiao, and the little Bichi who looked like a fox.
Andy furrowed his eyebrows slightly, remembering McMullen's strange-tone phone call the day before yesterday, "Let them in." ”
Watching the pouting little assistant twist his waist and walk out of the office, he shook his head angrily, "Lulana Korshunova... ”