After a series of acquisitions such as Hutchison Whampoa, the strength of the Cheung Kong Department has increased greatly, and now, Hongkong Land is placed on the periphery of the core structure of Jardine Matheson, and Li Superman, who has not been paid for his ambitions, how can he not buy it? However, there is no impermeable wall in the market, and it didn't take long for rumors to spread in the market that Li Chaoren and Bao Daren wanted to join forces again to annex the Dying Lion Land!

Especially in the past few months after the stock market crash, rumors of various acquisitions, many wealthy Chinese businessmen, have been rumored to be involved in Hongkong Land: Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong Asset, Wong Dehui and his wife of Chinachem Group, Bao Yugang of Global Group, Zheng Yutong of New World Development, Kwok Tak-sheng of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Lee Siu-kee of Henderson Land, Huang Yanfang of Sino Land, Kwok Henian of Shangri-La, etc. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the media also inevitably reported on Wang Zifan, although he started in the entertainment industry, he also intended to take advantage of the opportunity to snipe at this behemoth.

In January, Zheng Xiangtong visited Yihe Taipan and proposed to buy 25% of the shares owned by Yihe Holdings at a price of 16 yuan per share, but Simon Keswick angrily refused, one thought that Zheng Yutong was too greedy and the bid was so low, and the other was that Zheng's reputation was not good, after all, Hongkong Land was the beloved daughter of Yihe, and the father always wanted to find a solid and honest in-law for his daughter, so many real estate groups were waiting to choose, how could he find a person to sell jewelry.

Zheng Xiangtong, who was very fine-minded, suddenly had no choice, and retreated, and many "big guys" came one after another to visit Lord Keswick, but Keswick refused repeatedly, and the most likely buyer in his mind, Wang Zifan, had not yet appeared, so he hoarded more and more, not completely cutting off the idea of the hunters, and the fragrant bait was hanging high, which made people want to stop, and they couldn't get it, even Li Jiacheng was no exception.

Li Jiacheng's prestige, Keswick has long been like thunder, before Wang Zifan bought the Hong Kong Electric Light, they also fought in this battle, Superman out, Simon Keswick did not dare to slack off, let alone dare to take it lightly, Li Jiacheng expressed his willingness to buy 25% of the shares of Hongkong Land at 17 yuan per share, which is more than 6 yuan higher than the market price of more than 10 yuan at the time, but Simon Keswick is still not satisfied with this offer; at the same time, he did not completely seal the door, and made a very calm and sincere appearance.

"Dear Mr. Li, the door to negotiation is always open to sincere acquirers, and the key is to have a mutually acceptable price. ”

"My price is already 6 yuan higher than the market price, isn't it sincere enough?"

Keswick smiled and said, "I believe that Mr. Li has a reasonable price in mind, for Hongkong Land!"

Li Jiacheng was really disgusted, he has always been generous, and proposed that 17 yuan was already the highest price in his mind, but Keswick was not satisfied, and patiently continued to "talk about the number" with Keswick, but the two sides still had big differences, and finally had to leave and discuss countermeasures with Zheng Yutong, who had been deflated before, and agreed on the next negotiation time.

After eating for a while, Li Jiacheng didn't want to be too positive, just like Wang Zifan, he had enough patience to wait for a favorable opportunity.

There are unforeseen circumstances, with Margaret Thatcher announced that she would visit the mainland again, the negotiations failed, and the news that she fell under the steps of the Great Hall of the Great People, just stabilized Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, plummeted, on January 10, the Hang Seng Index plummeted more than 100 points, and the next day closed, the Hang Seng Index fell another 220 points, the stock market wreckage was everywhere, a wail, the entire Hong Kong business community, frightened, like a bodhisattva crossing the river, it is difficult to protect itself, how can Yu Yong be involved in the acquisition war, self-help is the top priority, Hongkong Land shares fell by about 40% , Jardine is no better, and Keswick has trouble sleeping.

Hongkong plummeted, Wang Zifan paid close attention to Li Jiacheng's movements, and Li Jiacheng, who has always been good at waiting and seizing the opportunity, did not make any big moves, Wang Zifan was amazed in his heart, the attractiveness of Hong Kong Land is undoubted, why not take advantage of the big stock market crash, Yizhi is fighting the fire to save himself, and he is desperate to rob it? Now that Hongkong Land has fallen to the lowest point of 6.65 yuan, it will be purchased at double the price, which is only more than 13 yuan, which is still far lower than Li Jiacheng's opening price of 17 yuan before the stock market crash.

Originally, according to the Takeovers and Mergers Ordinance, the acquirer could not raise the purchase price less than the value of the shares of the acquiree's company purchased by the acquirer within six months, and a few days before the stock market crash, some of the shares of Hongkong Land absorbed by large Chinese investors exceeded 10 yuan, and the contents of each transaction were all stored in the stock exchange's computer, that is, assuming that the average purchase price in the past was 10 yuan, the current repurchase price must not be lower than the level of 10 yuan - after 6 months, this restriction is not applicable.

As a result, Li Jiacheng's intestines are going to be repentant, his hands are cheap, he can't wait to chop his hands, he can't think of why Thatcher would wrestle under the Great Hall of the People, this meaning is too vivid, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is almost falling in response, he can only hope that Wang Zifan has also absorbed Hongkong stocks, otherwise he can only be a spectator, or use unseen means to prevent Wang Zifan from acquiring!

In mid-January, it was 6 whole months after the stock market crash, during this period, Hongkong shares rebounded from the lowest point of 6.65 yuan, almost hovering at the level of 6.7 yuan, still lower than the level before the stock market crash, which was beneficial to the acquirer.

At the end of January, the new Chinese-funded consortium headed by Li Ka-shing drafted a letter to Hongkong Land, requesting that at the annual meeting of Hongkong Land's shareholders, add a proposal to appoint New World Chairman Zheng Yutong and Bao Yugang of the Global Group as directors.

"How many shares have we acquired?"

"Mr. Wang, up to now, we have absorbed 1.2%, 0.5%, and 1.7% of the shares of Jardine Matheson through Hongkong Electric, Kowloon Development, and Prince Fund respectively, plus the stocks held by dozens of other accounts, adding up to about 6%!"

"How much money to use?"

"Less than 200 million!"

"Too little, continue to acquire, and increase efforts!"

"If you increase your efforts, it may cause ......"

"Don't be afraid of exposure! Since you can't break through 10%, let's have a showdown in advance!"

"Understood!"

Wang Zifan waved his hand, let Zhao Desheng continue to stare at Jardine stocks, he originally planned to buy 10% of Jardine shares to scare and scare Keswick, who knew that the other party's prevention mechanism was doing well, and he secretly struggled for half a month, and only then won 6% of the shares, although it was very little, it worked, as a Gu Tan sniper, there were countless sailors waiting to drink soup behind him, once he exposed the news of the acquisition of Jardine shares in Apple Daily, it would definitely trigger a group effect, scattering beans into soldiers, enough for Keswick to drink a pot!

In the evening, as expected, the large-scale acquisition of the day has aroused the alarm of the Jardine Matheson board of directors, and Wang Zifan has no need to hide it, a phone call to the headquarters of "Apple Daily", Dapeng just returned from the mainland, and also filmed the historic scene of the Iron Lady Thatcher's wrestling.

"Dapeng, it's me!"

"Hello, Mr. Wang!"

"The article I wrote is ready to be published!"

"Okay, what else do you command!"

"That's all, by the way, you reported the Thatcher wrestling news that day!"

"Ahem, if it weren't for Mr. Wang's advice, we wouldn't have sent reporters to follow up on the Great Hall of the People and take pictures of this moment, and now newspapers all over the world are reprinting our photos! Our Apple Daily has broken records in many places!"

Wang Zifan said with a smile: "Very good, make persistent efforts and strive for stable sales!"