The sun wasn't shining well on Wall Street, and there was a dark cloud overhead.

Although the Statue of Liberty is still shining in the United States, there is a faint pressure on everyone, Chu Chu is very dissatisfied with Lin Fan, and said that he will go to New York to play, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, all of them will not accompany him, although the Empire State Building in front of him is also spectacular.

Lin Fan came to New York, to Manhattan, to Wall Street. The world's financial center has been in an unspeakable state of failure, with New Century Finance filing for bankruptcy, Freddie Mae and Fannie Mae, the nation's largest mortgage lenders, losing huge losses, and Bear Stearns and AIG almost all in crisis.......

However, Lin Fan came to make an appointment and settled Chu Chu in the hotel, so he went to the headquarters of Citibank

Founded in 1812 and listed in 2003, Citibank has been the world's largest company by market capitalization until ICBC went public, and its business covers savings, credit, securities, insurance, trusts, funds, financial advisory, asset management and many other businesses, which can almost be called an all-round service.

And Lin Fan came this time to appoint Citibank to help him buy Marvel, Marvel is definitely a famous name for Chinese people, especially when the Marvel series of movies rose in later generations, several movies even rushed into the world movie box office rankings, Lin Fan still remembers that before he was reborn, he had just watched Captain America 2.

This is also the only American series of movies that Lin Fan is fascinated by, for Mission Impossible, Galaxy Trek, Star Wars, and even Transformers, Lin Fan is not interested in these series of movies, but Marvel, Lin Fan loves Black Widow and Iron Man the most, Scarlett Johansson interprets the charm of Black Widow to the fullest, perfect body, sexy high nose bridge, absolutely stunner. In addition, it is Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, that kind of arrogance, well, Lin Fan admires it very much.

Of course, infatuation is not the reason why Lin Fan wants to buy Marvel, this is Lin Fan completing his layout of American and even world movies. First of all, Marvel Comics has accompanied the growth of several generations of Americans since the birth of World War II, and its influence is undoubted. The second is that Marvel also owns Marvel Entertainment, which means that Lin Fan's acquisition of Marvel will also get a film production company in addition to the newspaper distribution network, and the fire of the Marvel series of movies will also push Marvel to great popularity.

Marvel's popularity is worldwide, which marks that Lin Fan can quickly expand his influence to the world, and at that time, Lin Fan also laid a good foundation in Asia, both inside and outside, invincible in the world. And with the thousands of heroes owned by Marvel, what a huge copyright library this is? This will be an endless library of footage, and it can also be sold to other film companies for profit, Marvel is definitely a cash cow.

As for whether it can be successful, Lin Fan does not doubt that Marvel was acquired by Disney for $4.2 billion in 09. Lin Fan is not short of money now, maybe Marvel was acquired by Disney because of Disney's strong distribution capabilities, so if Lin Fan has another American theater chain, then whether it can attract Marvel, production capacity plus theaters, this is a super big pie. Of course, before that, Lin Fan needs to find excellent negotiation and acquisition personnel, and Citibank is professional in this regard.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Prince wants to see you. A blonde called. Lin Fan tidied up his suit a little, and calmly followed the girl over, Prince is a well-deserved big man on Wall Street, in charge of the commercial giant Citibank, but Lin Fan has no surprises, if you also deposit five billion dollars in Citi, I believe Prince will also see you.

"Mr. Prince, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

Of course, you're not the first to say that. Poole is a 50-year-old man who was a lawyer and had a rigid personality, but the mall taught him to joke, "but I am happiest to hear Lin's compliments." ”

Lin Fan suddenly chuckled, and the two of them held hands together.

But Prince immediately got straight to the point, "Mr. Lin wants to buy Marvel Comics?"

"The $5 billion I want to transfer to your bank is enough to show my confidence. ”

This is also what Prince was surprised about, when Lin Fan made this request at Citibank's San Francisco office, he had quickly investigated Lin Fan's identity and background, but the investigation showed that Lin Fan's worth was not even five billion dollars, but now he easily took out five billion in cash, and the bank account traced the source of this fund, Lin Fan's five billion dollars came from dozens of countries around the world, and it was impossible to trace the real head of the household. This surprised him even more, so he decided to receive Lin Fan in person.

"I wonder what Mr. Lin's requirements for the acquisition cycle and acquisition funds are?"

"Try not to buy more than $5 billion, of course, the lower the purchase price, the higher the commission your bank will get, we can discuss the details, I hope to complete the acquisition by the end of 2008." ”

The one-year acquisition period is actually not long, for example, Wanda's acquisition of Legendary Cinema lasted for nearly three years, and Lin Fan proposed that this time is still related to the current economic crisis, under the economic crisis, the eight major film companies are facing losses and have to reduce the scale of filming, and even the rising rookie Lionsgate has to face layoffs, film pressing and other measures to reduce losses, it can be said that the economic crisis is a disaster for all walks of life.

Prince also nodded, it seemed that this was a sane acquirer, "OK, Mr. Lin, I officially accept your entrustment on behalf of Citibank, and we will formalize the contract later." ”

"I hope this acquisition will be kept secret. ”

"Of course, the customer's requirements are our code of conduct, not to mention that you are our valued customer. Prince smiled, "But I have a question that I am curious about, why did Mr. Lin choose Citi to complete this acquisition?" Prince just asked casually, and his tone was full of lightheartedness.

"I'm here for you. ”

"Me?"

Lin Fan nodded as a matter of course, "On May 17, 2001, Citi acquired Banco Nacional de México, Mexico's second largest financial institution, for $12.5 billion, and on February 24, 2004, Citi acquired KorAm Bank, a South Korean bank, for $2.73 billion. On October 27, 2006, Citi acquired Banco Uno First Financial Group, the largest credit card issuer in Central America. On December 14, 2006, Citi acquired the Chilean bank Grupo Cuscatlán, and on April 27, 2007, Citi successfully acquired Nikko Kodi Securities, Japan's third largest securities company, for $7.7 billion in all-cash. ”

Well, this poked the itch of Prince, the best compliment for a person is to say his smug deeds, and Lin Fan did that.

"After listening to Mr. Lin's words, I don't seem to have any reason for the failure of the acquisition. ”

Lin Fanwan'er, a trace of inexplicable look flashed in his eyes, the large-scale acquisition is indeed Prince's proud move, but it is also one of the driving forces that pushed Citi into the abyss.......