At this time, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's Tokyo headquarters is preparing to hold an emergency shareholders' meeting.
During this time, the president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Jiro Kobayashi, suddenly disappeared after traveling to China, leaving the entire Kobayashi Pharmaceutical group without a leader.
At the beginning, the shareholders of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical were still trying every means to find the whereabouts of Jiro Kobayashi.
But they made a lot of efforts and attempts, but they still couldn't find Jiro Kobayashi.
After that, they immediately contacted Takehiko Ito, the leader of the Ito family.
The reason for contacting Takehiko Ito is that the shareholders of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical know that Takehiko Ito is very optimistic about Kobayashi Pharmaceutical and Jiro Kobayashi, and hopes to recruit Jiro Kobayashi as his son-in-law and then invest in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.
In the final analysis, the reason why Jiro Kobayashi went to China was to pursue Takehiko Ito's daughter, Nanako Ito.
As a result, Nanako Ito came back, but her follower Jiro Kobayashi disappeared, leaving everyone in the Kobayashi family confused.
Takehiko Ito is also very concerned about this matter. After all, he is very optimistic about Jiro Kobayashi and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. If Jiro Kobayashi disappears, then naturally he will not be able to be his son-in-law.
Moreover, Jiuxuan Weisan currently has insufficient production capacity and has not been exported to overseas markets, so Japanese consumers know nothing about this miracle medicine. They still regard Kobayashi Weisan as the best gastric medicine. Kobayashi Weisan is popular in the Japanese market.
Sales have not been affected at all.
Therefore, in the view of Takehiko Ito, the future prospects of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical are still bright.
In order not to miss the opportunity to invest in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, Takehiko Ito also sent many people to search for the whereabouts of Jiro Kobayashi.
But it is a pity that they do not have a strong intelligence network in China, and they cannot find out any information about Jiro Kobayashi.
As a result, Jiro Kobayashi seemed to have completely disappeared in the eyes of the Kobayashi family and Takehiko Ito.
As time passed, Takehiko Ito took the lead in giving up the search for Jiro Kobayashi.
He felt that instead of looking for Jiro Kobayashi, it would be better to let the Kobayashi family choose a new president and then cooperate with the new president himself.
Later, under the operation of Takehiko Ito, the Kobayashi family also gave up.
After the Kobayashi family gave up looking for Jiro Kobayashi, they began to enter the next stage, preparing to restructure Kobayashi Pharmaceutical and re-divide the cake of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical was developed by Ichiro Kobayashi's father, Masao Kobayashi, over several decades. Although many members of the Kobayashi family were involved, they did not directly own shares of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.
After the death of Masao Kobayashi, Ichiro Kobayashi was labeled as patricide, and Jiro Kobayashi naturally became the sole heir of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.
However, Jiro Kobayashi is also missing now.
According to Japanese law, if the whereabouts of Jiro Kobayashi are still unknown within a certain period of time, it can be legally determined that this person has died, and his relatives have the right to inherit all his property.
In that case, all the shares of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical will become a meal for the collateral relatives of the Kobayashi family.
Kobayashi Ichiro's uncle, Masayoshi Kobayashi, has now temporarily succeeded as acting president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., exercising management rights in place of Jiro Kobayashi.
Takehiko Ito, who had always coveted shares in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, immediately focused his attention on Masayoshi Kobayashi.
At this time, he called Masayoshi Kobayashi directly and said as soon as he came up: "Mr. Kobayashi, congratulations on taking the position of acting president!"
Masayoshi Kobayashi said respectfully: "Mr. Ito, thank you for your congratulations. As acting president, I am only temporarily acting. When my nephew Jiro Kobayashi comes back, I will still give up this position to him."
Takehiko Ito sneered and said: "I speculate that Jiro Kobayashi will not come back. You, the acting president, will soon become the official president!"
Masayoshi Kobayashi was secretly happy, but he still said very honestly: "Mr. Ito, to be honest with you, I still think about it day and night, hoping that Jiro can return safely."
Takehiko Ito smiled and said: "Mr. Kobayashi, I'm not calling you to be polite, but I have a business deal with you."
Masayoshi Kobayashi said hurriedly: "Mr. Ito, please speak!"
Takehiko Ito said in a serious tone: "I have always been very optimistic about the prospects of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. You should know this."
"Yes!" Masayoshi Kobayashi said respectfully: "I have heard about this for a long time! Thank you for your interest in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical!"
Takehiko Ito added: "As for me, I have always wanted to invest in Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals. I had an in-depth discussion with Jiro Kobayashi before, but unfortunately he disappeared suddenly, so now I can only come and continue to promote this matter with you."
Kobayashi Masayoshi said hurriedly: "This is no problem, but I don't know how you want to proceed, Mr. Ito?"
Takehiko Ito said: "I want to make one deal with Kobayashi Pharmaceutical and two deals with you personally."
Kobayashi Zhengyi said: "Please tell me."
Takehiko Ito said: "The transaction with Kobayashi Pharmaceutical is an agreement that I intend to acquire 30% of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's shares at a valuation of US$15 billion."
Kobayashi Masayoshi said awkwardly: "Mr. Ito, the current valuation of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical is probably more than 20 billion U.S. dollars. Your offer of 15 billion U.S. dollars is really a bit low..."
Takehiko Ito said calmly: "Don't worry, I will discuss two deals with you next."
Saying that, Takehiko Ito added: "For the first payment, as long as you can help me buy a stake in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical at a valuation of US$15 billion, then I will privately give you US$200 million in cash."
"For the second payment, as long as you help me facilitate this matter, I will not only give you 200 million US dollars in cash, but also consolidate your position in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. At that time, I can guarantee you that no matter whether Jiro Kobayashi will come back or not,
You can securely occupy the position of president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.!"
Although the Ito family is Japan's top family, this does not mean that Takehiko Ito is a generous person.
He has always wanted to invest in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical and make some money from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. Moreover, he has always wanted to keep the price of the shares as low as possible.
If the valuation is more than 20 billion US dollars, and he wants to buy 30% of the shares, he will have to pay at least 6 to 7 billion US dollars in cash.
However, if the valuation can be lowered to US$15 billion, and the company holds a 30% stake, it will only need to pay US$4.5 billion, which can save more than ten or two billion US dollars.
When Masayoshi Kobayashi heard this, his first thought was that he didn't want to open such a big hole for Takehiko Ito. After all, this was a price difference of more than ten to two billion dollars, which was a huge amount.
However, when he thought that he could return cash to him privately and ensure that he would sit firmly in his position as president without any interference, he felt a little moved.
After thinking about it, he said: "Mr. Ito, since you have made it so clear, I will not hide it from you. If you can privately return 500 million U.S. dollars to me, you can ensure that I sit firmly as the president.
, then when I have a meeting later, I will do my best to promote the Ito family’s investment in Kobayashi Pharmaceutical!”