Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1558: : How good

Before Christmas, on December 20, when the Golden Globe nomination was announced, the acquisition of Warner Lambert by Pfizer, which had been secretly negotiated for more than a month, was also officially finalized.

The two parties reached an agreement that Pfizer will acquire the pharmaceutical giant at a price of US$97 billion and assume all the debts of Warner Lambert. Counting the market value of Pfizer at the close of $165.5 billion on the day the agreement was reached, the total value of this transaction reached $262.5 billion, which happened to surpass the $257 billion that Exxon acquired Mobil last year. If the merger can be completed, there is no doubt. Will become the largest merger and acquisition in history.

At the same time, the new Pfizer will also become the world’s largest pharmaceutical giant.

Both parties deliberately chose the time node before Christmas to announce the news, as well as the upcoming millennium, both deliberately. However, the announcement of the news still caused widespread heated discussion in the media, and the attitude was clearly divided into two factions, pros and cons.

In fact, everything seems to be both for and against.

Only, this time, it was mainly because of the deliberate guidance of the Westeros system that this effect could be achieved. Otherwise, for such a super merger, there will inevitably be the majority of opponents, and this may even lead to the abortion of the merger.

Moreover, after the same cautious operation of public opinion, the Westeros system basically removed itself from it. Even the Apollo Management Company under Cersei Capital, which was responsible for the coordination, did not have a strong sense of presence in this merger and acquisition case. High, mainly due to the emergence of the management of Pfizer and Warner Lambert.

Which is not without twists and turns.

The Mellon family, once the largest shareholder of Warner Lambert, tried to get things out in the U.S. Congress. They also successfully lobbied a member of the House of Representatives who had been acquainted with the Mellon family. The proposals have been drafted, and the news is here. On the other hand, the stock price of Alcoa, which the Mellon family is still in control for the time being, plummeted. Along with the financial scandal of a spokesperson director of the Mellon family in Alcoa, the IRS also began to get involved in investigating Alcoa. Tax evasion issues that may be involved.

IRS, in this case, how could it not appear?

In addition, because inside information was obtained in advance, the insider trading evidence of a Mellon family member who quietly absorbed Warner Lambert some time ago was also sent directly to the Mellon family, even with Warner Lambert here. An executive who informed him.

As long as the matter is settled, the Mellon family will be discredited because of that member’s illegal transactions while the person is in jail.

Simon got this handle very early, just waiting for this day.

Coupled with congressional pressure on the congressman and some exchange of interests, the attempt to prevent Pfizer from the antitrust proposal of Warner Lambert ended up.

Simon didn’t plan to go after him.

It’s not good for the dog to jump over the wall in a hurry.

In general, the whole thing is the result of the Westeros system gradually becoming more familiar with the operating rules of the American political and economic system.

In business, if you want to make trouble for me, I can also catch your handle. If you don’t compromise, you will lose out. Politically, it is nothing more than compromise and exchange. Except for a very small minority who completely ignore their personal interests and really want to serve the voters, of course, they are rare. Moreover, as soon as they enter the world, they enter the circle of politicians, and most of them will gradually assimilate. A few, even if they are not kicked out of the circle, are definitely marginalized. Others, in the final analysis, must first maintain their political status. If you can give enough conditions to help politicians ensure something, then you are God.

Of course, God’s priority is higher than that of the elect.

Of course, the premise is to have enough strength to play with the rules. If the strength is not enough, it will eventually become a joke.

New York.

Westeros headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

After the lively Christmas, it is a new week in the blink of an eye. This is Tuesday, December 28.

Simon and his wife came here today to attend a year-end meeting of Westeros. In addition to James Leibald, who is in charge of Westeros, there are also the Big Three of Cersei Capital.

The main content of this meeting is also related to a series of investments next year.

First of all, there are several merger projects in progress.

Pfizer’s acquisition of Warner Lambert will basically not be a big surprise. Moreover, although it is a complete share swap acquisition, in the course of the transaction, Apollo Management will still acquire it through cash purchases. After the completion of the transaction, Westeros, Apollo Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management will hold a total of about 15% of the shares of the new company. Tello’s headquarters holds 8%, Apollo approximately 2%, and Black Rock Asset Management holds 5%.

For a publicly held company with dispersed equity, 15% of the shares, plus the salary to the management, or that sentence, is basically equivalent to turning Pfizer into its own.

In addition, there is also the acquisition of Qualcomm by Skoper, and the negotiation also quietly started in the middle of this month.

There will be no big surprises.

As for next year, it will mainly be the large amount of assets obtained from the stock swap plan this year.

December is about to pass, and some of the last replacement projects have recently been finalized. In 1999, the Westeros system achieved a total of 237 billion US dollars of replacement scale, of which non-cash assets such as stocks, minerals, and real estate were approximately US$172 billion. And gold equivalent is 65 billion US dollars.

Among the total assets of 237 billion US dollars, the largest one came from Asia, which eventually reached 53 billion US dollars, of which nearly 30 billion were all from the same Asian country, Indonesia. Moreover, this part of Asia has the highest cash ratio, reaching 21 billion U.S. dollars, and the remaining assets are also the most diverse.

Among them is only real estate and real estate that Simon is more interested in. In Asia, there are only more than 30-storey buildings in Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila and other Asian metropolises. There are 21 buildings in total, including office apartments. In addition, there are as many as 7 plantations, mainly in South Asia, with a total area of ​​27,000 hectares. The planting types involve rice, sugar cane, rubber, coffee, and so on.

In short, it is enough for Simon to easily open a copy of a South Asian landlord.

Moreover, these assets are mostly big sales, and the average discount is about 60 to 70%. Many of them are directly cut in half. Therefore, 53 billion US dollars is only the book value. If the complete value is calculated, even if it still includes the small fluctuation 210 Billion US dollars in cash, the total value can also be about 70 billion US dollars.

Some people abandon these assets, a big reason is that they have completely lost their sense of security, but these are not problems for Simon.

To successfully become the owner of these assets, if anyone dares to move the mind that shouldn’t have, unlike the original owner who can only be mermaid, Simon can not only easily manipulate the US government to impose sanctions, but even adjust an aircraft carrier battle group to put pressure on it in the past. not a problem. If you play in the dark, it is better. Your own gangs and private forces, and even a deeper intelligence network, are enough to play some people to death.

The content of the discussion at this meeting is to specifically classify this asset and set up a dedicated asset management team.

What can be completely controlled, of course, must be completely controlled in their own hands.

What can’t be fully controlled is mainly a small number of share-swap companies who also need to send a dedicated contact management team. The next main operational goal is to infiltrate. In the original agreement, the Westeros system will exchange a small number of shares. The control of the company did not show much intention, provided that the other party could not point fingers at the company that has obtained shares here.

However, now that the stocks are in hand, what to do is another matter.

Of course, Simon will not let the following people intervene randomly. It is justifiable to join the board of directors, or to insert the management. If you can’t be justified, then use some less justifiable means, first make a good penetration of some board members or corporate executives, step by step.

Again, what can be controlled in the hands of one’s own is one’s own, and it is the asset that can be transformed into social power.

If it can’t, it’s just a sum of money.

Simon is now pursuing more than simple asset growth. After all, there are hundreds of billions more on the books. If power does not follow the increase, it will be meaningless and may even become a fat sheep.

As for whether this will cause a backlash?

Can.

However, anyway, it is planned to be suspended next year, and Simon has never believed that human nature is forgetful.

Human beings never remember the lesson.

Just remember sweet dates.

The second largest is the United States, with 39 billion U.S. dollars.

After all, the United States has the deepest heritage. However, relatively speaking, the total assets of 39 billion U.S. dollars ranked second is also the most dispersed. There are only six replacement projects with a scale of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars, most of which are hundreds of millions of dollars. Tens of millions or even millions of transactions, and obviously for tax avoidance considerations, this part of the cash ratio is the lowest, only less than 6 billion U.S. dollars, most of them are exchange operations that can be tax deducted.

There is nothing to say about this asset. Most of it is just assets, mainly from many public funds. Obviously, seeing technology stocks take off again, they carried out swap operations.

Of course, to sort it out, there is definitely room for manipulation.

The goal here is to conduct in-depth research and review, and select companies for further operations. The first goal is not to consider the value-added level, but the political level.

For example, is there any company that is an important funder of congressmen in a certain electoral district, or which company is a labor-intensive enterprise that controls many workers who have voting rights? If this company is still in a swing The swing city in the state swing county is more valuable.

In short, when there is a need in the Westeros system, such as in Washington, to shut up a certain congressman who wants to make trouble, or to let a certain congressman who is unwilling to shut up to step down, we need to have enough bargaining chips here.

If you don’t shut up, you may lose the biggest benefactor in your district.

If you do not step down, hundreds of thousands of workers in your district may lose their jobs, so even if they understand that you are fighting for their benefits, they can only let you step down.

This is how to play.

Outside the United States, the third part, from the Middle East, is 32 billion U.S. dollars.

After all, he is too rich.

Moreover, if someone thinks that the princes of the Middle East only know how to boil eagles and walk the birds, they are also underestimating each other. The oil-producing countries there still attach great importance to diversified investment for the future. However, investors in the Middle East are often very It is difficult to gain too much say in the investment object.

Of course, the Westeros system will not give any right to speak, even if the total value of more than 32 billion U.S. dollars of stocks is sold, if someone thinks that they can talk about it here, that’s okay, you can sell it at will.

Therefore, this is purely a transaction.

The Westeros system has nothing to ask about the Middle East, and don’t even think about getting anything extra from this side.

In fact, it can be seen from the content of the transaction.

In this exchange, in addition to the cash of about 8 billion US dollars, most of the assets are the stocks of many large companies outside the Middle East. As for the oil fields in the Middle East, there are people who want to sell, but they are not interested here. After all, it is impossible to take them. Going to an oil field that is too large and high-quality, it’s not enough to make a small mess.

As for other things, there is nothing else in the Middle East.

Simon is not interested in sand, not river sand.

The fourth part comes from Europe, which is Western Europe to be precise, which is similar to the Middle East and is about 31 billion U.S. dollars.

Western Europe is of course very rich, so $13 billion is in cash.

Moreover, a very important reason is that Simon is not very interested in most companies in Western Europe. After all, the trend of industrial migration in Europe is no less than that in North America, which means the gradual decline of most physical industries. Those companies, if they cannot gain further control, will have to decline along with them.

Therefore, in Europe, it is similar to the United States, or similar to the Middle East.

Because Simon has no strong political demands for Western European countries for the time being, he will not pursue operations similar to those of the United States. Of course, it’s not without it, but it’s not anxious, it’s better to take it step by step.

For the future of Western Europe, Simon actually has a certain Cisco.

The best result is that in the next 50 years, Western Europe can be reduced to the same situation as Latin America, and together with the current Eastern European brothers and sisters, they will completely lose their vitality.

According to some information in memory, this possibility is actually very high.

Just one point, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the entire Eastern Europe is actually equivalent to a China’s reform and opening up. China’s opening up later proved that the United States had benefited the most from itself. Eastern Europe should have been an opportunity for Western Europe. If Western European countries can use it smoothly to activate the Eastern European economy through large-scale investments, and even, be bolder, to truly admit Russia into the European system, then the whole of Europe will not only have at least three decades of further development momentum, but will also directly Have a powerful military system that can compete with the United States.

However, the reality is that not to mention the further absorption of Russia, the Western European countries have not even achieved a certain goal.

This lack of success, it can even be said, doomed Europe’s future.

As for why Europe was able to barely keep up with the United States and China, there is no shortage of them. After the millennium, it has not been quickly left behind in the 20 years after the millennium. After all, it has benefited from Eastern Europe. A large number of cheap labor from Eastern Europe, without consuming the high social welfare of Western Europe, made up for the shortage of labor in the low-end industries in Western Europe. Not only that, Eastern Europe, like China, is not only a dumping market for high value-added products in Western Europe. It also contributed a large number of cheap goods to Western Europe.

This delayed the decline of Western Europe for another twenty years.

Then, as Eastern Europe began to develop more or less, the population and cheap dividends of Eastern Europe had all passed away, and China no longer allowed the Western world to do what they wanted. The entire social level is already Western Europe, which wants to continue…but tried and attracted the same. Cheap Middle Eastern refugees, but, the subsequent results are undoubtedly disastrous, so there will be no more

In fact, twenty years later, the whole world is basically facing a certain problem.

The solution is actually very simple. Humans can work together to make another fundamental technological revolution, realize controllable nuclear fusion, and realize large-scale applications of solar energy sufficient to satisfy the entire social level. To put it bluntly, it is a fundamental increase in productivity. , No need to worry about the shortage of energy and material, the automation of production can be realized to the greatest extent, and mankind will enter a new era.

The 3G plan of the Westeros system is precisely this goal.

As for the original timeline, Simon felt that after another unforgettable catastrophe, if humans were lucky enough to not destroy themselves due to a nuclear war, they would probably make up their minds to go further.

However, this is not what humans are good at.

Just like the history of countless reincarnations, humans are still better at self-destruction, no matter which continent or race, there will be a vigorous war, enough people will die, and the remaining resources will naturally be left. Used by people under.

How good.