Chapter 174: The panicked Crédit Lyonnais
"Happy working together!"
"Happy working together!"
That night, Zhuang Mingge and his entourage spent the night in the manor where Tapi lived, and the wine treasured in the manor was taken out by Tapi, who was smiling because of the huge debt he had escaped, and used it to entertain his two "VIPs".
I wonder if Mitterrand will feel distressed by Tapi's act of "borrowing flowers to offer Buddha" later, Zhuang Mingge thought as he drank wine said to be from Bordeaux.
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"Rebecca, now we should go and talk to those guys in Lyon about buying Jihua from Adidas, right?" After staying in Marseille for one night, and getting up early the next morning, Zhuang Mingge couldn't wait to walk around Little Groz, hoping that she could quickly get rid of the group of loan sharks at Crédit Lyonnais, so as to save her long nights.
"Hehe, Antonio, just relax and wait, I believe that the news of our agreement with Tapi yesterday has now reached Lyon, and they must be at a loss now."
"Wouldn't it? That mere $1 million in arrears shouldn't bring the loan sharks of Lyons to their knees, right? Zhuang Mingge asked suspiciously, one million dollars is not a problem at all for the "state-owned" Crédit Lyon bank!
"Antonio, what I want is not the meagre $1 million in arrears that Crédit Lyon still owes, but a series of problems in the process of Tapi's transfer of Adidas's shares to Crédit Lyonnais!" Little Groz corrected Zhuang Mingge's misconception very seriously.
"Isn't it because he was busy with politics and didn't see that Adidas was turning a profit, so he sold his shares in Adidas to those at Crédit Lyonnais at a low price?" Zhuang Mingge still didn't understand the reason why Little Groz was so confident, "This can only be regarded as Tapi's own failure to do a good job of investigation, and he can't rely on Crédit Lyon at all?" ”
"It's far from that simple, maybe there is something in this that Tapi didn't know about Adidas' profitability at the time, but as the acquirer, how could they not know? And as an asset appraisal agency as an intermediary, they are also not clear? Little Groz would soon hit Zhuang Mingge's doubts and said, "If it weren't for the asset description provided by the appraisal agency, how could Tapi be deceived so easily?" ”
"Uh, you mean ......" Listening to the hint given by Little Groz, Zhuang Mingge's mind flashed, and he felt as if he was vaguely aware of something.
"Yes, do you know which appraisal agency is the appraisal middleman? It's none other than an appraisal office owned by Crédit Lyonnais! My own people estimated a low price for their own people, and then partnered to pit Tapi! ”
"......" Zhuang Mingge was speechless for a long time after listening to the answer given by Little Groz, thinking that the luck of the people of Crédit Lyon was really good, if Tapi had not been ruined later because of the match-fixing case, and when he came back to his senses and found that he had been deceived, the connections and various potential resources he could use were enough to make Crédit Lyon disappear from the French financial world.
It really fulfills the old saying that windfall profits can make these businessmen take risks, buy 70% of Adidas' shares from Tapi for 300 million US dollars, and mark the price of 500 million US dollars for these shares more than two years later, these bankers basically did nothing, and made a huge profit of 200 million US dollars! This rate of return and profit is enough to make Crédit Lyon colluded inside and outside to trap the tappies.
"Tapi is really, he easily believed the report of the appraisal agency without any investigation, wouldn't he ask a few more?" Complaining is complaining, but Zhuang Mingge also knows that if it weren't for this omission of Crédit Lyonnais, Little Groz and he would have no chance to get their hands on Adidas. In that sense, he also has to thank the bankers for that.
What Zhuang Mingge didn't know was that in history, Tapi, who reacted, obtained the capital to make a comeback by virtue of this lawsuit with Crédit Lyonnais, and the core of this lawsuit was Adidas.
"By the way, Rebecca, I suddenly remembered something, please tell me the truth." Zhuang Mingge finally remembered something that was very important to him, and slapped his hands heavily on Little Groz's shoulders, his eyes fixed on each other's eyes.
"Ann, Antonio, you, what do you want to do?" Little Groz was made to stammer by Zhuang Mingge's actions, and, I don't know if it was Zhuang Mingge's delusion, he felt that Little Groz seemed to be blushing a little at this time?
"I want to ask, did you intend to let me pay for this debt of 150 million dollars in the first place...... Pain! What are you doing, Rebecca? As soon as Zhuang Mingge's words fell, the instep of his foot was trampled hard by Little Groz, and Zhuang Mingge jumped all over the ground in pain.
"Humph!" Little Groz didn't say a word, he turned around with his hands on his chest and ignored Zhuang Mingge.
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So, with the combined effect of Tapi's enthusiasm and the desire to compensate Groz Jr., Zhuang Mingge and Rebecca settled down in the manor house in the southern suburbs of Marseille, waiting for the people from Crédit Lyon to come and start negotiations.
After learning that Tapi had transferred all of his claims to Rebecca Groz, who was about to negotiate with him, there was a riot in the negotiation team of Crédit Lyonnais: laymen may not know what kind of "tricks" their bank used in the transfer of Adidas's shares, but the Groz family, as a financial family, saw through this level of ploy very easily.
If the Groz family had been a little more disgraced in this matter and filed a lawsuit with the court over the transfer of Adidas shares, it is very likely that the court would have ruled that the previous transaction was illegal, and not only would the illegally obtained shares be returned, but the bank itself would also suffer huge losses in reputation and money!
Therefore, regarding the sale of Adidas shares, for the current Crédit Lyonnais, it can only be sold to Rebecca Groz and her gang, and the price cannot be too high, so as to prevent the other party from tearing up their faces and really going to court.
After some urgent consultations, the board members of Crédit Lyon finally made a difficult decision: to sell the hot mountain of Adidas to Groz Jr. as quickly as possible, so as to save the other party from making any unpleasant fuss with themselves because they did not get the shares of Adidas.
In this way, three days after the transfer agreement between Groz and Tapi, the negotiators of Crédit Lyonnais, who were ready to be slaughtered by Groz Jr., arrived in Marseille with a tragic attitude.