Chapter 521

"Hello, Barry, I didn't bother you to rest."

Seeing off Mr. Zou and his party, Li Feng immediately picked up the phone and called Barry Diller. After all, this involves the expansion of media groups, and it is essential to communicate with the leaders of their own media groups.

"Boss, I'm just going to have a rest. What's the matter?" Barry smiled back.

Li Feng looked at it and roughly calculated that Los Angeles time should be more than 9 p.m. at this time, which is a good time to call.

"OK, that's right. To make a long story short, I'm going to expand the media group in Asia, but my idea is to use my investment company to acquire it first. As you know, I almost lost my controlling stake in the real estate company and media group because of the expansion of Blackwater.

I'm thinking that after I acquire other businesses outside the Americas, I may complete the share restructuring of the media group through the acquisition and merger and equity replacement of both sides, so as to achieve the purpose of absolute control again. What do you think? "

"Boss, I think so. In fact, since the two companies joined the board of directors, although they haven't seen anything for the time being, there have been such signs. For example, recently, their director representatives opposed the expansion plan we prepared before. Fortunately, we still take the absolute initiative, but I think this may be their temptation."

"Oh, I'm really restless, which is what I expected. You just need to explain the situation to frank and let him cooperate with me. Also, Barry, you should pay more attention in the future. I'll inform Alan and ask the security company to strengthen security for you.

As for the board of directors, they can't turn up the storm for the time being, but we should pay more attention. You know, it's a big American company like GM, and the shareholders behind GM almost include major American and imperial consortia. Now my century group may also become the goal of everyone. "

"OK, I'll thank the boss. I'll talk to Frank a little later." After they had a deep chat again, they hung up the phone.

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Next, Bill Weibei and Li Shanquan came together. This is naturally Li Feng's focus. Therefore, they had a long talk with them. After this period of operation, Li Feng knew that although the financial crisis has not officially erupted, in fact, the investment company has made a net profit of several hundred million dollars.

Many people may know that the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 was the day after Hong Kong's return. The Thai government announced that it had abandoned the fixed exchange rate of the Thai baht and changed to a floating exchange rate policy. But few people know that as early as before the outbreak of the financial crisis, the financial order in Southeast Asia had gone through many wars and completely eroded.

In particular, Thailand has become a bridgehead. This is why, first of all, Thailand announced to abandon the fixed exchange rate system. It is really the erosion of the domestic economic and financial order, which was defeated by hot money around the world led by Soros.

For example, since March this year, Thailand's Thai baht has been attacked by international speculators and hot money. At that time, there was a run on Thailand, resulting in the collapse of dozens of banks, the Thai baht depreciated by at least half, and the stock market plunged by more than 70%.

Of course, Li Feng's investment company was also one of the capital behind. Huamei bank also benefited by successively acquiring several bankrupt banks in Thailand, which can be regarded as cutting into the financial industry in Southeast Asia.

In fact, many of Thailand's major banks have become branches of large European and American banks, that is, they have been acquired by large European and American banking consortia. It began to spread from Thailand to Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries, but these countries are not as serious as Thailand. The economic achievements of Southeast Asia in decades of development have been almost deprived by European and American countries and consortia.

It can be said that the outbreak of the financial crisis is only a matter of time. People with clear eyes have seen the actual situation and are waiting for the fuse now.

Li Feng is very clear that when Thailand announced the change of the exchange rate system of the Thai baht on July 2, the crisis here will be inevitable.

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Two days later, Li Shanquan went to Li Feng's hotel room again.

"Boss, this is the situation and acquisition agreement of Jiahe. Now the market value of Jiahe Hong Kong shares is only HK $1.2 billion. Today's Jiahe is really unable to hold on.

After investigation, we know that Zou wenhuai of Jiahe invested in real estate last year and lost hundreds of millions. Jiahe has made a large number of bad films since 90 years, almost all of which are at a loss and in debt.

Hong Kong's local market is still too small. Baodao can't stand the rough production of films in Hong Kong. Finally, it broke up with Hong Kong. It has introduced policies such as introducing Hollywood and Japanese films and developing local films in Baodao, so that the market share of Hong Kong films in Baodao continues to shrink.

With the loss of treasure island, the most important box office warehouse, although the mainland has begun to open to Hong Kong, there are still various restrictions, and the box office on the mainland is really limited, resulting in the fact that the overall film market in Hong Kong is getting worse and worse.

In fact, the current economic situation is not very good, and the rich and consortia in Hong Kong have begun to tighten their pockets, resulting in great restrictions on Jiahe's search for film investment channels.

Boss, if we wait for the acquisition after the financial crisis, Jiahe may be the price of cabbage at that time. "

"Ha ha... I know all this, but I pay more attention to the Jiahe brand and the opportunity to enter the mainland market. In addition to Jiahe, I also want TV stations. TV stations on the mainland don't have to think about it. I happen to think about something in Hong Kong.

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Oh, hehe... The market value is only more than 1 billion, and the debt is more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars. Many projects have been shelved, and even are preparing to sell those cinemas and studios all over Asia. " Li Feng picked up the document, looked through it with a smile and said to himself.

"In other words, we injected US $200 million. In addition to paying off Jiahe's debt, the rest were used to develop Jiahe, and we got 51% of the controlling shares." After reading the last column about shares and acquisitions, he smiled again.

"That's true. After all, it needs to be purchased at a premium. Now it's waiting for you to sign by the boss, and there's another condition, that is, no matter which shareholder of Jiahe wants to sell his shares in the future, we have priority.

Another point is to look at the current capital market situation. When the crisis breaks out, we will start to buy some shares of Jiahe in the stock market to expand our shares. "

"Well, that's good. It can ensure that we can firmly control Jiahe."

The acquisition of a small company like Jiahe is really a small thing for the investment team led by bill Weibei and Li Shanquan. Although Jiahe has a big name, it is really small in the capital market.

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"Since that's the case, let's do it, but we don't need to publish the details. We can tell Zou wenhuai that we have found a new capital channel. Anyway, the shares are in the fund, and no one knows. Let's hide them for the time being."

“OK…。”

Joking, Li Feng picked up the golden pen of Saint Laurent and signed his name naturally. It is the so-called one willing to fight and one willing to suffer. It is very easy to complete Li Feng's previous wish.