Although the draft contract with Maus Freres SA has been signed, there is still a long process to draw up a formal contract.

Crédit Lyonnais, the main financier of Lantian Industry and Trade, and Goldman Sachs, which is the main matchmaker of this merger and acquisition activity, will use different legal person names to participate in it and obtain their due benefits.

Moreover, the contract must be approved by the relevant national authorities.

Hong Kong is a free trade port that never restricts the normal business activities of local enterprises, while Switzerland is a relatively conservative country and has certain regulatory conditions for business practices involving cross-border capital injections and mergers and acquisitions, and the same is true for France.

The participating teams must try to avoid these controls at the contract stage, and they must find ways to work together on public relations.

Catherine is no longer involved in the details, but if there is a need for her as a baron, she will naturally be put on again.

On Lacaste's side, the four heirs were dumbfounded.

Maus Freres SA temporarily halted the acquisition, and the people of Xiangjiang who were approached by CLSA also stopped coming forward, and through their own information channels, they soon learned that the two parties were negotiating a stake, and that Lacaste had become the subject of this commercial negotiation.

We're not ready to choose any of you yet, so how can you just treat us as a plate and talk about how to cut it?

After a brief outburst of anger, there was endless humiliation, and no one had the courage to turn the table.

Jules acted as a messenger and conveyed the terms of the initial acquisition of the two parties, with a premium of 10% for the full acquisition.

That's a pretty good condition.

The Lacaste family remained silent, having to acquiesce to the situation that had been put on the table, looking at the declining market value, and losing interest in continuing to hold on to the remaining shares, eager to complete the deal immediately.

As the core third-party transaction partner, they have completely lost the confidence to bargain, and they just sent a team to constantly urge to reach a final contract as soon as possible.

At the Morris Hotel in Paris, where the tripartite team was still engaged in a final dispute over some of the small terms of the final contract draft, Zhang Heng and Catherine, accompanied by Walter and Lin Liang, had already arrived in Frankfurt, Germany's industrial center, by train.

In an industrial area on the western outskirts of Frankfurt is the Lulai factory, and now the signboard on the gate has been replaced by "Daheng Optical Equipment Company" written in German and Chinese.

This is the new company established by the integration of Lulai, Fulunda, and two other precision motor companies.

As an old camera factory, Lulai covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters, while several other factories are relatively small, so the new company is integrated here.

Several factories were originally in an industrial area, so the integration would not cause too much trouble for the workers to commute to work.

A temporary high platform was erected in the factory area, and nearly 200 workers stood underneath, on which were senior officials of Daheng and local officials in Frankfurt.

Unless it is a super large company, most small German businesses do not pay attention to too grand ceremonies, and many have a buffet or BBQ, and invite workers to bring their families to participate.

But this time, because it was the first time that a local company had acquired a local company, the local bureaucrats still paid more attention to it, and a deputy mayor and two members of the local council came.

Seeing the other party's attitude when he saw him, Zhang Heng was secretly amused in his heart, maybe the proud and reserved Germans were inevitably a little disappointed.

On the stage, these German officials just shook hands with Zhang Heng politely, and soon put all their enthusiasm on Catherine, who was dressed in a capable professional attire, after hearing her speak an old Bavarian language, these people were shocked, and when they saw the family logo she took out, these people were even more awe-inspiring, and they used honorific titles when they spoke.

When nine o'clock came, Zhang Heng went up to speak as the chairman of the group, the German workers did not have the consciousness of the Xiangjiang workers at all, they still stood on the ground, many children were still running around, and the women were shouting and chasing, and the scene could be said to be a mess.

Zhang Heng didn't say much, and after some encouragement, he handed the microphone to Catherine.

"Don't be disappointed, that's what it is here. Catherine did not shy away from whispering in his ear as she staggered with him, and finally kissed him.

Back in his seat, the deputy mayor and two councillors looked at him in dismay.

"Gentlemen, is there anything wrong with me?" Zhang Heng deliberately looked himself up and down.

"It's our rudeness, Mr. Zhang, there's nothing wrong with you. The deputy mayor hurriedly explained with a smile, "I really envy you, you are young and promising, and you have been favored by such a beautiful Excellency." ”

"Maybe the heavens will favor me. Zhang Heng replied with a smile, he didn't believe in God, so he could only use the broader word "heaven" instead.

"God's favor!" the half-old men smiled, revealing an ambiguous expression between men.

A beautiful lady spoke standard Bavarian traditional German, and the German workers, including their families, could not help but stop and listen, and even the children were infected by this atmosphere and stopped being naughty.

Catherine first praised the employees of several factories, spoke highly of their technology and tradition, and then elaborated on the purpose of integrating these factories, and pointed out the future path and lofty prospects of Daheng Optics.

"The new Daheng Optics will not only pursue new breakthroughs in the traditional camera field, but also develop new product lines by virtue of your accumulated excellent skills and relying on the strong industrial background of the head office, and our future prospects will be infinitely broad!"

Closing her speech with an impassioned speech, Catherine stepped off the podium, shook hands with many of the workers, and occasionally picked up the child and teased her twice, and the audience soon became a sea of joy.

"Mr. Zhang, your new president seems to be very popular, so we can rest assured. "The deputy mayor sincerely said hello.

"Thank you for your presence today, let's go to the restaurant, today I have prepared food from the Orient for you. Retracting his gaze that stayed on that beautiful back, Zhang Heng smiled and invited these people.

For this opening, Lin Liang's team went to Berlin and invited all the staff of a Chinese restaurant that opened after World War II to come and serve.

Catherine soon entered the restaurant surrounded by workers, and today's menu is a combination of Chinese and German, including Bavarian barbecue, roast pork trotters, sausages, German beer, Peking duck, Cantonese roast meat, and sorghum braised meat.

Before the restaurant chef had time to divide it, a group of Germans picked up half a roast duck and gnawed it directly, which made Zhang Heng and his group cry and laugh.

The lunch finally ended in a warm and joyful atmosphere, and most of the workers were drunk, which made Zhao Xin, who had just flown in from Xiangjiang to prepare for work, dumbfounded.

"Zhao Gong, let them rest today, you can also take a good rest, and then put into work tomorrow. Catherine said with a smile.

Zhao Xin hesitated a little and said: "Okay, president, I'm a little worried, if this happens again in the future"

Catherine smiled: "Today is the ceremony, they bring their families, so they will be so relaxed, tomorrow they will work normally, they will never look like this, the Germans are like this, you can rest assured." ”

"That's good, thank you for explaining. Zhao Xin smiled embarrassedly, "The DHJC-73 designated by the chairman of the Xiangjiang Wafer Fab is about to be put into production, and I am a little worried about the time." ”

Zhang Heng patted him on the shoulder: "Zhao Gong, that chip is not too urgent for the time being, I will give you three months in Germany, and your task is to explain the principle and working mechanism of the lithography machine to these technicians and engineers, and help establish a complete R&D department and R&D process here." ”

Zhao Xin, who understood the meaning, took the team back to rest, and Zhang Heng looked at Catherine: "I have worked hard for you today, but my boss has shrunk back most of the time, and it is all up to you to charge in front." ”

"This is my hometown, and I'm so happy to be doing something for you. Catherine smiled and took his hand.

"I understand the significance of this company for Daheng Group, although I don't understand technology, but I understand people's hearts, understand management, in the future I will at least put more than half of my energy here, half a year later, Daheng Optics will come up with the first lithography machine of its own. ”