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"...That's the way it is. What do you guys think? However, we don't have much time left."

In the spacious and bright conference room of the Vivendi Group, the CEO asked Renault to repeat the communication process with Andy Smith, and all the board members present had different expressions.

"Is he threatening?" A meticulous old man with thin silver hair combed his brows and asked in a cold voice.

"It's not a threat, but whether we agree to the transaction or not, he will use this opportunity to attack General Electric. If we disagree, he will take us with him." Another director glanced at the other party and said. .

"The floating of 200 million US dollars is quite a lot..."

"If the stock price continues to fall, we will lose more."

"We can notify GE and join forces to fight back..."

"Joke, they can't protect themselves, how to fight back, I agree to reach a deal with the other party, now who will have trouble with cash, anyway, we have long wanted to sell those shares, should we keep them in our hands and continue to lose money?"

"I don't agree, that's $200 million. If he really wants to get that 20% stake, he can complete the deal at the previous price of $4.4 billion."

All the directors in the conference room started talking one after another, and Renault, who was sitting in the first seat, watched all this with a calm and indifferent expression. He had long been used to this.

Ever since Vivendi changed from a water company to a monster company that is now famous for acquiring busters to make a fortune, there has been no peace in the board of directors. Each director has been fed more and more greedy by repeated successes and huge profits, and often greedy The more stingy people will be, it is common for people to turn their faces for a little bit of profit.

"Jean, what's your opinion?"

Seeing that there was no result for this group of people to quarrel, they finally threw the problem back to Jean Renault. After all, the CEO's ability is very good, and he saved Vivendi from the brink of over-expansion and disintegration. In the past six years The work done is obvious to all, and the prestige in the company is still great.

"We didn't agree to Andy Smith's 4.4 billion offer at the beginning, but we hoped to get a bigger offer from General Electric, and General Electric hoped to occupy an absolute advantage in the M\u0026A negotiations by holding 100% of NBC Universal, so that we benefit maximization.

But, folks, the premise of these plans is that Andy Smith's ambitious plan for NBC Universal's merger and acquisition plan will be implemented.

Now he tells us that he is not playing, we and GE will get nothing, and because he is upset, he is ready to retaliate. The problem is that he can complete the retaliation.

What is certain is that Andy Smith does have great ambitions for NBC Universal. It can be seen from the fact that he has not given up the 20% of our shares. What will happen to us after GE, already on the edge of the cliff, completes the acquisition?

Why did we spin off Universal Pictures and choose to merge with NBC? Are we going to continue to clamor to sell our shares every year, and then receive all kinds of unreliable quotations, and continue to hold on to the shares that don't pay much dividends? "

Let Renault have a serious expression on his face, and asked several questions in a row, making all the board members present silent. To be honest, this 20% stake is really very important for Vivendi. It's tasteless, and the benefits can't be taken advantage of. On the contrary, NBC Universal's poor profitability every year will also cause their Vivendi stock price to fall. It is definitely a pit. 13.

"Andy Smith is not a good boy. Everyone has heard of his notoriety in the Gaia branch of London's Financial Street. Do you think he will let go of the opportunity to short our stocks?

I don't know if you have seen him, but he gave me the impression that he is young, yet mature, decisive, and undisguisedly ambitious.

And more importantly, he has the strength to realize his ambitions.

Everyone here, including me, who has the courage to eat 40 billion US dollars of gold under such a financial turmoil?

If such a crazy person wants to use the opportunity to suppress our stock price, how much do you think our loss will be? "

The meeting room became silent, and it made Renault feel a little helpless. It wasn't that he raised others' ambitions to destroy his own prestige. The words he said were also questions he asked himself. He found that if it was him, he would also I will not let go of this opportunity to cut flesh on the opponent.

Really he borrowed a good hand!

Under normal economic conditions, this kind of threat is simply a joke, but now, it is the deadly threat of his meow. In panic, there will definitely be a stampede tragedy with no power to fight back. Regardless of whether the news is true or not, sell the stock first Besides, it will be miserable if you run slowly. . . It's just so unreasonable and irrational.

"Jean, you mean to agree to complete the deal with him?"

"That's right, everyone, don't forget that some issues have been held up by the US and French regulators. I want to use this transaction to completely end the investigation troubles in the US. In fact, we should have ended it a long time ago. The tail left over from the year 2000!"

Let Renault's words change the complexion of the members of the board of directors slightly and become ugly. Everyone knows that Vivendi's blind expansion at the beginning caused a loss of more than 20 billion euros and was condemned by the whole country. It covered up a lot of losses and has been tightly held by regulators in the United States and France.

"I will meet with Andy Smith again to negotiate the price, everyone, in fact, we can also use this opportunity to conduct some buybacks..."

As soon as Lei Nuo's words fell, the eyes of the people who were still a little bit unwilling suddenly lit up. All the people present were JIAN cunning old foxes. Satisfied expression.

Looking at the faces of the directors, Renault felt a bit tired in his heart. The nature of these goods will not change at all. They are the most slick when it comes to shearing sheep in the secondary market. up.

"OK, then thank you two goddesses for giving me this opportunity, I'll pick you up right away, see you later."

Andy shook his head with a smile, checked the time on his watch, picked up his mobile phone, and called his little secretary of American Express.

"Osteria Francescana restaurant, three people, arrive in about three hours..." Andy explained to the phone while getting dressed with the help of the little assistant. After hanging up the phone, he said to the little assistant: "You can eat by yourself at noon Well, go shopping when you're bored. By the way, inform the crew members, get ready to take off..."

The little assistant looked helplessly at the big devil who was leaving quickly, and the two old women. I really didn't know why the big devil was so interested.

Naturally, she would not understand what Andy thought, when they were young, everyone had their own dream goddess. Every time they appear, they have a unique atmosphere, which makes people's heart beat faster and their expressions are at a loss.

In the previous life, I could only live in fantasy, and the distance was out of reach. But in this life, even though their looks were past their peak when they met, their respective situations have also undergone earth-shaking changes, and they are no longer out of reach. The blood-thumping excitement and conquest of Yu is undoubtedly irresistible to everyone.

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