Xiao Qi is in Japan and currently has two acquisitions and exchanges in progress.
The first one is SoftBank Group's stock.
Under repeated pressure from Citibank, SoftBank Group's share value has dropped to US$29 billion. Citibank also used more than 870 accounts for acquisitions. In the end, it was unified and controlled 23% of SoftBank Group's shares through 338 accounts.
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Although it is much slower than the 8% collected in the previous week, the most important thing is to be solid and cautious and not let others know in advance, especially not to arouse Sun Zhenyi's vigilance.
However, the value of the 23% shares purchased by Xiao Qi cannot be calculated based on the total price of US$29 billion. In fact, Xiao Qi spent a total of US$8 billion to obtain these 23% shares.
Citibank's complex operations are used to suppress various soft and hard funds, account transfers and integrations, etc., all of which require large expenditures, that is, the partnership between Citibank's Bao Lijie and Xiao Qi, and
Citigroup Asia's investment in Xiao Qi's favor was at a discounted price. Otherwise, if another person were to invest, at least another US$500 million would have to be added.
23% of the shares are less than half of the 51% absolute control Xiao Qi needs. However, as the Nikkei 225 index continues to plummet along with the US stock market, Bao Lijie believes that in the next three months, taking advantage of people's panic,
In reality, it is not impossible to complete 51% of the tasks.
As far as Xiao Qi is concerned, all he needs to do is control the SoftBank Group before Taobao explodes at the end of 2008 and then negotiate. Of course, it would be better if it can be done in advance.
No matter how smart Sun Zhenyi is, he would never have thought that someone would be eyeing his company now. Nor would he have thought that Xiao Qi's purpose of acquiring SoftBank Group was just to get Alibaba's shares.
Although the stock market in every country has very strict supervision on acquisitions, established banks like Citigroup are inherently opposed to the rules set by various national financial institutions. With their methods, when the acquisition is completed, they will not
Let people know - a single account does not exceed a certain share to purchase stocks. There is no need to declare it, so why do you need to disclose the owner?
It seems very simple, but if you have enough money and patience to wait, you have to have an excellent executor to do it, and you have to have the strength and mentality to bear all the consequences, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.
To put it bluntly, the 21st century is the century of capital operation.
As long as you have money and enough creativity, you can achieve maximum development.
Citibank, which does actual business, will eventually become the helper of super-rich consortiums like Xiao Qi, and will never be as powerful as it was in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Compared with SoftBank Group's acquisition, Sony's acquisition of Ericsson's mobile phone and wireless patents is much more difficult.
Although Ericsson lost its mobile phone business so quickly and simply, they paid more attention to their mobile phone framework patents, wireless equipment patents, etc. than anything else.
One is a burden that loses creativity, and the other is the foundation of the company. Naturally, they are completely different in terms of treatment!
The cooperation between SONY and Ericsson in mobile phones is not all smooth sailing. Otherwise, the sales volume in the world would not be high. Even in China, the traditional big market for Japanese brands, they have to rank behind Nokia, Motorola and Samsung.
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But generally speaking, it is better to have friendship than not to have friendship.
Relying on the convenience of a cooperative relationship, Gao Chuan Teru Shu directly sent a high-level delegation to Stockholm, Sweden, and launched difficult negotiations with Ericsson.
For the Gaochuan family and the Morita family, no matter what the price, they must obtain the qualifications to enter the APPSTORE, because this represents the opportunity to have a say in the infinite and vast smart electronic world of the future.
SONY is very powerful now, but they have never stopped working hard and are always thinking about becoming stronger.
The powerful vitality of the App Store has fascinated SONY's executives, so it has been positioned as one of the important indicators for SONY to lead others again.
What's more, Samsung has already entered the market. There is no reason why Sony, which is more powerful than it, cannot enter. How much damage will this do to the reputation? Doesn't it mean that Japan cannot compare with South Korea?
Even though SONY has made great efforts and is prepared to pay a huge price, Ericsson still refuses to let go and seems unwilling to negotiate.
But both Gao Chuan Teru and Xiao Qi knew that Ericsson people were just pretending.
In the Western world, there is no business that cannot be discussed. What's more, when Xiao Qi purchased the patents, he left the European base to Ericsson and only wanted patents in Asia and America, so they had no reason not to discuss it.
What we need to look at now is negotiation skills and patience. It just so happens that the Japanese have greatly improved their patience and skills after being deceived a lot over the years, but I'm afraid it won't be that fast.
The financial crisis is a great test for any company.
Nortel Networks, which was originally on par with Ericsson in the wireless field, is much more powerful than Ericsson.
But after experiencing several financial crises and the Internet bubble crisis, everyone can see what Nortel Networks is like now.
Ericsson also faces such difficulties, because as the economy declines, people's desire to consume will decline, and the decline in consumer desire will directly affect businessmen's enthusiasm for production and investment, thereby further reducing businessmen's enthusiasm for production and investment.
The demand for various equipment - Nortel Networks suffered a lot of canceled orders back then, and a large number of servers could not be sold, and finally collapsed.
What Ericsson is experiencing today is not as tragic and urgent as Nortel Networks. However, in the previous life before the advent of the smartphone era in 2010, Ericsson's life was not very easy, but it is also a fact.
IPHONE and DreamPad are now popular all over the world, but compared with the share of traditional computers and mobile phones, they are still not outstanding. Ericsson does not know how brilliant their future will be, so when faced with the huge profit temptation of SONY, most of them are
Those who cannot control themselves will most likely give in.
Xiao Qi hopes that the negotiation with SONY can proceed as soon as possible. After all, Fairy Company's DreamStars will be released in February next year at the latest. It is only four months from now. If DreamStars takes the world by storm like IPHONE, it may take a long time.