Chapter 1449

The purchase of Apple has been completed 60% before the money arrived.

Li Mu used mango-me2 and yytunes to uproot Apple's profits. He joined Andy Rubin to let Apple give up all resistance, and then he asked jobs to sign a competition agreement. After that, Apple was a piece of meat on the chopping board, waiting for him to sharpen his knife.

Now that the money has arrived, the knife has been sharpened, and the acquisition progress has been completed by 80%. The last obstacle is NASDAQ. After all, there is still a part of this meat in the hands of NASDAQ investors. The remaining problem is to liquidate NASDAQ investors.

If it is listed in Hong Kong, according to the way of Hong Kong privatization and the number of shareholders, even if Li Mu holds more than 66% of the shares, he may not be able to vote through privatization. Once the number of shareholders is not enough, privatization is difficult to succeed. However, there is no such "people-oriented" operation mode in the U.S. stock market. As long as Li Mu gets the majority of shares, he can directly hold the majority of shareholders It will go through the process of privatization, and then force the liquidation of those shareholders who have outstanding shares.

In contrast, Li Mu prefers the simple and crude operation mode of the United States.

At the meeting, Li Mu immediately formulated the strategic process of purchasing apple and completing the privatization. He told Lin Qingya and Ding Jian: "President Lin is responsible for following up Apple's general meeting of shareholders to complete the signing of the contract in the fastest time; President Ding, you cooperate with Louis, the shareholders of apple only sign, immediately take the agreement and money, and put forward the privatization application to NASDAQ."

The two men nodded solemnly at once, and Louis Martin from Sequoia said: "as long as Apple's shareholders sign and the equity transfer is completed, we will immediately hold a shareholders' meeting to vote on the issue of privatization. However, as long as Apple's shareholders sign on time, the shareholders' meeting is a process, and we will directly inform the NASDAQ shareholders' meeting As a result, we can apply for compulsory privatization by putting the funds used for privatization into the regulatory account of NASDAQ. The shareholders who hold the circulating shares have no room for refutation. Each stock agency will assist us to complete the follow-up stock buyback work. "

"Very good!" Li Mu smiled and nodded, saying, "since our money has arrived, let the Apple executives sign it as soon as possible."

After that, Li Mu said to Li Ziwei, "Ziwei, please inform cook now, let cook inform all the members of Apple's board of directors that they are ready to sign in the afternoon. After signing, we will immediately pay 50% of their purchase price, and the remaining 50%. I will also pay all of them in three months as agreed."

Li Ziwei nodded and asked Li Mu, "Mr. Li, would it be a bit hasty to sign in the afternoon?"

Li Mu said: "it's better to bump into Japan than choose a day. Anyway, all the details have been discussed, the framework agreement has been signed, the actual transfer agreement has been drawn up, and our money has arrived. What else can we do?"? Well, you tell them that if they sign today, they will pay an extra 20% in addition to the 50% stipulated in the contract! "

It is stipulated in the contract template that 50% of the purchase price shall be paid immediately after signing, and the remaining 50% shall be divided into three months. Li Mu can divide 50% into three months to pay a little, or pay all at one go on the same day, or all at the last day of three months. In short, within the scope of the contract, as long as he likes, he can do anything.

Therefore, Li Mucai decided to pay 70% of the purchase price to Apple as long as it signed today. They have been eager to cash out recently, and they will cash out 70% on the same day, which must be very attractive to them.

Li Ziwei immediately said, "I'll contact cook now to let him communicate and reply as soon as possible."

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Recently, Apple has been in a special state of anxiety.

This uneasiness stems from their distrust of Li Mu. They are looking forward to Li Mu's purchase of apple, and they are worried that Li Mu will tear up the framework agreement anytime and anywhere, leaving Apple alone in the abyss.

The reason for such a mood is that Apple's stock price has fallen a little in the past two days. When we communicated the framework agreement with Li Mu, the stock price was 4.15, and at this moment, the stock price has fallen to 3.74.

The reason why the bottom is still falling slowly is that the mess left by the iPod business is constantly fermenting, like a box of broken fruit, which is just broken at first, and then begins to rot, moldy, stale and stinky water.

A large number of iPod users who want to return their products have not been effectively dealt with. The dealers have not yet paid back the prepayment to apple, nor received the funds from apple to deal with the returns. At this time, they dare not accept the refund application of users. Otherwise, the cost and risk are all double tied to themselves.

But users' demands are not solved effectively, which makes users' anger accumulate continuously. They constantly protest against apple and its dealers online and offline, which has brought serious negative impact on apple.

In addition, the dealers have begun to tear up with apple, and even some dealers have joined up to sue the court, which aggravates the current scandal of apple.At this time, the representative factory began to jump out again to join in the fun. They announced that apple still has a considerable amount of money not paid so far, which has brought huge financial pressure to the representative factory and left apple in a mess for a while.

Because of this, apple is especially looking forward to Li Mu's acquisition as promised. After all, the stock price is still falling. If Li Mu suddenly gives up, their assets will shrink a lot.

If Li Mu abides by the framework agreement, Li Mu will purchase at the price of $4.15. According to the agreement, the actual purchase price is 90% of $4.15, which is $3.73. However, if 90% is converted according to the current 3.74, the actual purchase price is only 3.36. By then, their assets will shrink by more than 60%. It's too tragic for Apple's shareholders.

Tim Cook is also worried about Li mushuang's appointment, because he also holds a considerable number of Apple shares. Normally, due to Apple's internal restrictions, these shares will take several years to gradually cash out, but it will continue like this. It will not be long before Apple's share price will fall below its net assets. By then, he will have nothing left. However, according to the company's According to the regulations, if you leave early, the remaining shares will be repurchased by the company at a very low price, which is basically nothing.

However, if Li Mu accepts the offer in an all-round way, the apple stock in his hand can be cashed out cleanly at one go. In any case, the price of $4.15 is much higher than the price of the company's buyback. In this way, he can cash out a fortune in advance.

Plus, after Li Mu promised to join Muye technology, he paid 150% of his salary. He not only made a lot of money, but also joined the world's top Internet companies. So no matter how he calculated this account, Tim Cook thought it was the most appropriate one to be acquired.

It's no wonder Tim Cook doesn't have enough loyalty to apple. After all, everyone comes out to eat. In front of individuals and companies, everyone has to think about individuals first, and then groups.

In resistance, we should carry guns, we should fight; when we lose, we should throw guns, bend our backs and give up. If we have the chance to transform into a leading Party, we will not hesitate. This is the thinking logic of normal people in capitalist society.

There are not a few people in the company who have Tim Cook's idea. When Li Mu proposed the purchase conditions for apple, he asked most of the middle and senior Apple executives to stay. So at that time, the company had organized a large-scale conversation to inform these employees of the purchase intention of Makino technology and ask for their opinions. Surprisingly, almost most of them Apple's middle and senior management are willing to join Makino technology after Apple's acquisition.

For today's Apple employees, waiting for the company to be acquired, and then incorporated into Makino technology, enjoying higher wages, this attraction is really too big, I don't know how to refuse at all, just as the employees of BAIC have the opportunity to work for Mercedes Benz and get 1.5 times of their wages, no one can think of a reason to refuse.

At 9 a.m., Tim Cook drives to the company. Apple works from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on a flexible work schedule, but Tim Cook is used to arriving early.

When he arrived at the company, Tim Cook asked his secretary to prepare a cup of coffee for him. During the time before work, he read the latest newspaper that the Secretary had already prepared.

Tim Cook is most concerned about two local newspapers, one is Silicon Valley, the other is Wall Street. The former leads the global Internet, and the latter leads the American money.

In the process of quick scanning, Tim Cook saw a news published in today's Wall Street Journal. The title of the news made him sweat: "according to reliable news, Muye technology is planning to buy apple and realize the privatization of apple!"

After reading the news carefully, Tim Cook found that the whole news is from the perspective of "disclosure from insiders". Although there is no source of information, the content is described in detail, including that Makino technology is preparing to buy the non tradable shares of Apple shareholders with 90% of the share price, and then the non tradable shares of NASDAQ retail investors with 150% of the share price Liquid stock.

This news also commented on the practice of Muye technology. They concluded that Li Mu gave NASDAQ investors a 150% premium, which seemed to be a bad guy, but in fact, he had a lot of heart. He hoped to take this opportunity to win the favor of NASDAQ investors and build a bridge for the listing of Muye technology in Nasdaq.

Tim Cook turned on the TV in his office and began to watch the financial channel news.

It's a dozen minutes before Nasdaq's opening. The news before the opening is easy to affect the trend of today's stock price.

Sure enough, the economist of the pre market news is reading the authenticity of the Wall Street Journal report. The economist supports the report and thinks that most of the contents of the report have enough judgment basis. The authenticity should be very high. Moreover, he predicts that Apple's stock price will have its first big rebound in many days.

Rebound

Tim Cook's lungs are about to explode! Today's stock price rebound doesn't make any sense, no matter how much it rebounds, because today's stock price, even if it rebounds, depends on the good news of Makino technology's acquisition of apple. Because Apple's real shareholders have signed a framework agreement, they can't enjoy such good news at all. Even if the stock price soars to the level of eight yuan before the fall, it's useless because Li Mu only can Buy their shares at 90% of $4.15.Moreover, none of them dare to bargain with Li Mu again at this time, because once Li muhuo officially announces that he will not buy apple, Apple's share price will suffer a retaliatory decline. It is not enough to go into all the increases at that time, and there must be a make-up drop, which may directly hit the price within three dollars.

Therefore, Tim Cook was particularly angry because such a leak would not do any good to apple, but would annoy Li Mu, because Li Mu would surely think that the news was leaked from the inside of apple, and it seems that this possibility is really great. At the same time, if Apple's stock price rebounded more sharply today than the framework agreement If the price of $4.15 in the discussion, Li Mu's privatization will change from "premium" to "discount". It could have won the favor of NASDAQ investors with generous buyback, but it can be so tossed. In the eyes of investors, Li Mu has become the culprit of buying their stocks at a low price. Li Mu is not angry!