Chapter 593: The Small Actions of Japanese Friends
"Lin, Xinfei is not an American company after all. "In this way, it is naturally not easy to win over the political forces in the United States and help a foreign company lobby." Therefore, I suggest that the solution to the antitrust investigation is to cultivate multiple competitors who can produce CD-ROMs, VCDs, and other products. By collecting patent licenses, you can get some compensation benefits. Although it is far less profitable than a monopoly, it at least solves the immediate problem. In addition, Mr. Lin, with all due respect, you are still a little too high-profile, in Chinese words, it is a big tree. If Japan had not been too competitive in the global market in recent years, and its share of merchandise exports had even surpassed that of American companies, becoming the world's largest exporter of consumer goods, it would not have been subject to political coercion in Japan's economic and fiscal policies. Although your company's physique is nothing compared to an economy like a country, in many fields, your company's products are indeed too aggressive, and your market share is among the leading in the world. In the case of U.S. companies, with the U.S. government's escort, and solving the problems in the U.S., it is equivalent to solving most of the problems in the global market. Enterprises in other countries are hugely lacking in this regard. In fact...... You can find the capital operation of Wall Street, look for a large number of capital and consortium mergers and acquisitions of star enterprises such as Xinfei, the registered address and headquarters are moved to the United States, and the headquarters is a large number of representatives of American elite teams and interest groups, then, in a few years, it will be a genuine American enterprise, even if the major shareholder behind it is Chinese, it will also be regarded as an American enterprise!"
Lin Qi shook his head and said, "No! I won't do this!"
If this is done, will it not become the conscience of the US imperialism that will be despised by future generations? It is okay to list on the US market or issue a small number of shares. However, if an American consortium is asked to form a group to merge and find an American company to merge with Xinfei Electronic Technology, everyone can claim that they have merged with each other. However, if the headquarters is moved to the United States, in fact, it is equivalent to agreeing to the merger of American companies with the hegemon of global optical disk storage technology such as Xinfei Technology.
Optical disc storage technology, currently only in the CD-ROM consumer market, at least more than 100 million CD-ROM devices are shipped a year. In the future, as the market develops, shipments may grow to up to 500 million units!
Even if the price of optical drive equipment will continue to decline in the future, the average price is 60 US dollars, and the future market will not be less than 30 billion US dollars!
What's more, there are also matching optical disc sales.
In addition, the CD record, VCD and other markets, although the shipment volume is not as good as the CD-ROM market, but it is also a very profitable market.
With only the leading position in the field of CD-ROM and optical drive, Lin Qi has contributed a large number of industrial chains and jobs to China over the years, and at the same time, it has also cultivated a large number of high-tech R&D teams.
Just a series of capital operations, if the headquarters is operated in the United States and turned into an American enterprise, although there may not be a loss of short-term benefits. But in the long run, a large amount of tax revenue will be contributed to the United States, and at the same time, a large number of parts supply chains, I am afraid that more American products will be purchased.
In this way, Lin Qi's layout at the beginning was deviated.
Although there may not be enough capital, some capitalists have a motherland! There is so much capital that it is no longer enough to be satisfied with the mere change in profits and figures.
If Lin Qi didn't have a series of related domestic industries to enter the world's leading position and make up for the regrets of future generations, there was no need to accumulate wealth to hundreds of billions, and even, it may reach a level of trillions in the future.
"If you don't, it's going to be more difficult to solve the problem. Moreover, it is necessary to cede a large number of interests and tie up more interest groups in order to do so!" Bushnell said.
"Well, thank you Nolan for your kindness! That's it, I'll figure it out myself. ”
After Lin Qi said goodbye to Bushnell, he went directly to the headquarters of the North American branch of the new venture in San Francisco and directly consulted William Zhang and other teams.
After deliberation by the team at the North American branch, however, the perfect strategy was not yet reached.
However, William Zhang said: "It is still in the anti-monopoly investigation stage, and it has not really been prosecuted." Even if you are really sued, you can delay time through a strong legal team! Victory or defeat is not the key, if the end of a lawsuit is delayed for ten years or eight years, then, even if you lose in the end, the loss will actually become very small!"
Lin Qi nodded and said, "It's really a good way to take the money to feed the lawyer." ”
The team of lawyers in the United States is definitely a super effective team in the concentration of interests. Although, the lawyers' interest group has been a cancer among the cancers in later generations, second only to the financial capital group.
But...... The professionalism of the lawyer team, as well as the formulation of various plans for employers, are indeed very professional. Of course, a team of lawyers is definitely not cheap...... Some people who don't have money hire lawyers, and the price is to win the lawsuit, and the compensation is basically the lawyer. For example, a person sues a company for $10 million, but in the end, the victim may only get tens of thousands of dollars, and the lawyer gets more than $9 million. Interests drive lawyers to do whatever it takes, not for justice, but only for procedures and interests......
And the cost of hiring a lawyer for some large enterprises can also be astronomical.
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Japanese market.
When Xinfei was caught up in a U.S. antitrust investigation, the stock price continued to fall. Even the second shareholder, Philips, is constantly selling off the shares of this star company.
Many investors are panicked and overwhelmed, but there are also some capital, but they are showing excited eyes!
One is the Japanese company Sony and the other is the Panasonic Group.
At present, Philips has sold at least more than $6 billion in shares, which have basically been eaten up by the two companies' continued sweep on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Subsequently, the two companies communicated with the management and shareholders of Xinfei Electronic Technology, hoping to further acquire more shares and become shareholders of Xinfei Electronic Technology Company with a larger proportion of shares.
On the one hand, these two companies are consumer electronics-related enterprises, and they are well aware of the market position of CD-ROM and VCD and other popular products in the hands of Xinfei Electronic Technology, so they want to obtain technology authorization through shareholding.
In addition, the Japanese market is now burning too much money, and many companies have obtained a large number of bank loans and do not know how to invest. Seeing that Xinfei Electronic Technology is undervalued and has technological advantages, it is naturally easy to be constantly bought by peers.
Japanese companies are constantly eating stocks, and it is clear that it is not just as simple as wanting to be shareholders, but even ...... I'm afraid there are also plans to turn a company like Xinfei Electronic Technology into a Japanese capital.
Although the Japanese government is not to be discouraged by the United States' mattress wool, Japan has contributed too many benefits every year, and the United States will still have some preferential treatment all the time. After all, if you want a sheep to have hair, you have to let it eat grass. If you don't give grass to the sheep, you will starve to death, and you won't be able to get wool in the future.
It is precisely this mentality that Japanese companies are confident that Lin Qi may accept the olive branch of Japanese companies and give more equity to Japanese companies. After that, Japanese companies used strong political resources to help Xinfei Electronic Technology solve the problem......
Although, Lin Qi did not consider selling Xinfei Electronic Technology Company, after all, even in the Internet era, computers gradually began to go to optical drives again. However, that was also a few decades later, and the removal of optical drives was only a part of the cost of the model. In fact, many important software later generations were still mainly distributed on CD-ROMs.