Chapter 319: One Step Closer
After reading the documents, Huo Jianning and Ma Shiming fell into a deep groan at the same time, there is no doubt that Jardine Matheson Group will never easily give up Hong Kong Land, a large company with a market value of 10 billion, even if you look at the world, it also belongs to the Big Mac Group, such a behemoth, you can't eat it with the strength of one person, not to mention the acquisition of Hongkong Group at the same time, you have to face the resistance of other competitors!
Wang Zifan put his hands on the coffee table and said with concern: "It's okay, tell me what you think!"
Huo Jianning first glanced at Ma Shiming, pursed his lips and groaned: "Mr. Wang, as far as I know, Mr. Li of Cheung Kong Department began to pay attention to Hongkong Land as early as a few years ago, and even secretly contacted the company's management and learned detailed data, I believe that now Mr. Li is more sure about the acquisition of Hongkong Land! This time, we will intervene sideways, and the contradiction may be intensified again!"
"You're right, but we've fought with the four major families more than once, it's not a good habit to be cowardly before fighting!" Wang Zifan finished with a smile, and then looked at another general, Ma Shiming, Huo Jianning still didn't understand his thoughts, the acquisition of Hongkong Land was to block Li Jiacheng, otherwise if he continued to be entangled like this, he would not be able to tell the winner in ten years. Hutchison Huangpu is second to none, the acquisition of Hutchison Huangpu only used 700 million, and now Hutchison's market value has exceeded 13 billion, not to mention Cheung Kong Industrial, as the parent company of Hutchison Huangpu, how can the market value be poor, now both sides can not help anyone, if he can take Hong Kong Land under its umbrella this time, it will be a different situation, the two major companies derived Hong Kong Electric, Wanda, Hongkong Land three major groups, with his golden finger, not to mention Li Jiacheng, is to count the several old families behind him, he is not afraid!
Ma Shiming said: "I think there is some possibility of success!"
Huo Jianning suppressed his objections and asked, "What do you say?"
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Ma Shiming said seriously: "First of all, the Jardine Group is indeed in a debt crisis, the overseas company is not operating well, and many Chinese consortia are eyeing each other, and it is impossible to keep Hongkong Land at all!
Huo Jianning said: "But the longer it drags on, the worse it will be for us!"
Ma Shiming insisted: "Since we know that Jardine Matheson wants to sell the land, there is a chance of success!"
Huo Jianning showed a helpless look, what he said was equivalent to not saying it, he fancied that Hong Kong Land was not a family or two, as long as he had a little strength, who would not salivate at this fragrant glutton.
"Go on!" Wang Zifan was silent, this could not fool him.
Ma Shiming has already sorted out his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Let's take a look at the possible response strategy of Jardine Matheson Group, as early as Pao Yugang's acquisition of Jardine Matheson's Wharf, Jardine Matheson's senior management has been prepared for the covetousness of Chinese capital, and the Keswick family has reorganized the entire holding structure with the assistance of financial advisers, the core is the mutual control of Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land, that is, Jardine Matheson Holdings and Jardine Securities control 4 percent of the equity of Jardine Holdings, and Hongkong Land in turn controls 4 percent of the equity of Jardine Holdings. ”
After speaking, Ma Shiming added: "This serial ship battle method appeared during the Red Cliff War of the Three Kingdoms, and Cao Cao was defeated!"
Huo Jianning began to face up to this idea, and the main object of discussion became Ma Shiming, and nodded: "There is indeed a big flaw in the structure of the serial ship, if the opponent can control one ship, he can start a hand-to-hand fight with another chain of ships, one loss will be lost, and the consequences will be even more terrible, the Keswick family will never allow Jardine and Hongkong Land to fall into the crisis of being acquired at the same time!"
Wang Zifan showed an indescribable smile, this tactic was still taught to Keswick, and the matter had to start with the four major families attacking the Hong Kong Electric Light, although he repelled the hostile takeover of the four major families, but he was unable to pursue, but Keswick saw a little way from it, and after a door-to-door negotiation, he went back to make this serial ship structure in a good way, and said proudly to the outside world, "I am not afraid of any acquisition"!
However, Keswick is a bad move after all, since he uses this strategy, he naturally has a way to break it, and there are countless battles to win!
Ma Shiming continued to analyze: "Since the outbreak of the crisis of confidence in Hong Kong, Jardine Matheson and Hongkong Land have both entered a dilemma, and the accumulated debts have greatly reduced investor confidence and the stock price has fallen, among which Jardine Matheson is the worst, with a market value of only about 3 billion; Hongkong Land is in a slightly better situation, there are still 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, everyone knows that persimmon picks the soft pinch first, and now the market has changed the original rumors, saying that the next target of the Chinese-funded consortium is Jardine Matheson, and then control Land, which may be our only opportunity." ”
Wang Zifan smiled and said, "You mean that while other people's eyes are focused on Jardine, we will quietly take the land?"
Ma Shiming nodded and admitted that when Hong Kong Land was glorious, its market value was once close to 20 billion.
Wang Zifan restrained his smile, the way is a good way, and sighed: "I'm afraid there is more than one smart person!"
Huo Jianning felt that this smart man was referring to Li Jiacheng, and thought that he should have been a hero and cherished a hero, how could it develop into a mountain that could not tolerate two tigers, if the Wang family and the Li family could unite, then Hong Kong Land would have no luck, on the contrary, it was possible to launch a general attack on the Jardine Group, and then affect the political and economic two terms, then Hong Kong history will be rewritten.
Wang Zifan asked the secretary Li Zhi to bring the rest of the information, since Keswick implemented the chain ship structure, from time to time there are stock critics on the defense system of the Yi Zhi system, some people say that the mutual control of the equity structure, such as two hairy crabs, each with a pliers to clamp the other party tightly, and then each free up a pliers to defend against foreign enemies, although the two are the same system, the same Taipan, and the interests of the two shareholders are not the same, resulting in a pincer stretched out by each can not coordinate the operation, and some people say that it is not that the mutual control structure designed by Keswick is not good, but that the general trend of Jardine Matheson has gone, if more than ten years ago, the Jardine Matheson master slept soundly, and no one dared to disturb his dream, not to mention the courage to pull a whisker hair down.
Soon after he came to power, he asked David Dai, who is famous for saving bankrupt companies in the United Kingdom, to take charge of the land's business, and then invited Pavis Pavis from the United States to reorganize the structure of the Yizhi system.
Huo Jianning flipped a few pages, his eyes moved, and he reminded: "Mr. Wang, we should pay attention to this Bao Weishi!"
Wang Zifan said unexpectedly: "Do you know him?"
Huo Jianning said: "I listened to his lectures when I was in college, and the year before last, I went on a business trip to the UK with Mr. Li Jiacheng, and I communicated with him at a salon party in London, and he has extraordinary judgment on finance and economics!"
Wang Zifan nodded and said: "You are right, this Bao Weishi is not a simple person, he is designing a plan for the decoupling of Yizhi, which is exactly the same as our Hong Kong Electric Listing Plan, and when their restructuring plan is introduced, Hongkong Land will announce the spin-off and listing of its wholly-owned subsidiary Milk International, and then announce the spin-off and listing of another wholly-owned subsidiary, Mandarin Oriental, and the restructured Jardine Matheson holding structure is: Jardine Matheson Holdings and Jardine Matheson Strategy are mutually controlled, Yikong holds 19% of the shares of Yice, and Yice holds 26% Jardine Holdings, Jardine Matheson Holdings and Jardine Matheson Strategies hold 11% and 15% of Hongkong Land respectively, and Dairy Matheson International holds 9% and 27% of Dairy International respectively, and Jardine Matheson Strategic controls 35% of Mandarin Oriental. ”
These words are a bit tongue-twisting, the prince read it, this plan was still he asked Madonna to come out, as a goddess-level figure in the eyes of the British people, it is not a matter of minutes to get a few stunned young people, after all, no matter how powerful Bao Weishi is, he also needs an assistant, these plans are sorted out by one of the assistants, and he is willing to give them to Diana.
According to Wang Zifan's estimates, the Keswick family controls the equity of Jardine Holdings, which should be between 10% ~ 15%, which seems to be a very low number, but among the many directors of Jardine Matheson, it ranks first, that is, the largest shareholder, who holds more than 15% of the shares, it is possible to cut the Keswick family down and control the first of the four major foreign companies, Jardine Matheson.
Huo Jianning gasped and said: "This plan is really going to be implemented, the Keswick family's stronghold, Jardine, will become impregnable, and at the same time, it can also crush the pretenders' attempts to control the land by acquiring Jardine!"
"Boss, tea!"
"Hmm!"
Lizhi just went back to the office and changed into a conservative uniform, which was very inconspicuous.
Wang Zifan took the teacup, motioned for Li Zhi to sit beside him and listened, and said with a smile: "In fact, it is easy to break this plan, the main interests of the Keswick family are in Jardine, so the masterpiece of Pavis shows the family's selfish intentions, we can encourage a few shareholders to oppose it, so that the plan can be postponed for at least a few years, and it will not affect our acquisition!"
Ma Shiming stared closely at several companies calling for equity, and suddenly said: "Mr. Wang, you see, this opportunity seems to be a neglect of one or the other; a bit like the Keswick family's handsome house, although the control of Jardine has been strengthened, but the Keswick family has weakened the control of Hongkong Land, and the possibility of foreign enemies invading Hongkong Land has increased accordingly. ”
Wang Zifan was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he had just said that the market value of Jardine Matheson had fallen below 3 billion, and he suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, he overestimated Simon Keswick, this guy was ready for both, on the one hand, he pretended to say that he was not afraid of acquisitions, and on the other hand, he arranged a way out, what was in mind in this guy's mind!
Huo Jianning was pleasantly surprised: "At least we can be sure that the Keswick family does have plans to sell the land, and this time has something to do with Jardine, the more Jardine encounters a crisis, the easier it is for the land to be acquired, on the contrary, when Jardine survives the crisis, the Keswick family's willingness to sell the land is not strong!"
Ma Shiming smiled lightly: "Now wait for Mr. Wang to sing your specialty!"
Thinking of the clumsy Keswick's panicked appearance, Wang Zifan really couldn't bear to do it!
Huo Jianning smiled: "Anyway, we are one step closer to Hongkong Land Group!"