Chapter 1449 Leaked Rumors

The acquisition of Apple was 60% complete long before the money arrived.

Li Mu used Mango-ME2 and YYtunes to uproot Apple's profits, and through the addition of Andy Rubin, he made Apple give up resistance, and then made Jobs agree to sign a non-compete agreement. Already a piece of meat on the cutting board, just waiting to sharpen the knife.

Now, when the money has arrived, it means that the knife has been sharpened, and the acquisition progress has been completed by 80%. The last remaining hurdle is Nasdaq. After all, part of this meat is still in the hands of Nasdaq investors. , the remaining problem is to liquidate investors such as Nasdaq.

If it is listed in Hong Kong, according to the method of privatization in Hong Kong based on the number of shareholders, even if Li Mu holds more than 66% of the shares, he may not be able to pass the privatization vote. Once the number of people is not enough, the privatization will be difficult to succeed. There is no such "people-oriented" mode of operation. As long as Li Mu gets the majority of the shares, he can directly pass the privatization process at the shareholders' meeting, and then force the shareholders of those tradable shares to be liquidated.

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

During the meeting, Li Mu immediately formulated the strategic process for acquiring Apple and completing the privatization. He said to Lin Qingya and Ding Jian: "Mr. Lin is responsible for following up with Apple's shareholders meeting to complete the contract signing in the fastest time; Ding, you In cooperation with Lewis, Apple shareholders only have to sign, immediately take the agreement and money, and file a privatization application with Nasdaq.”

The two immediately nodded solemnly, and Louis Martin from Sequoia said at this time: "As long as the Apple shareholders sign and the equity transfer is completed, we will immediately hold a shareholders' meeting to vote on the privatization issue, but as long as Apple shareholders All signed as scheduled, the shareholders meeting is a process, we will directly inform Nasdaq of the results of the shareholders' meeting, and then transfer the funds used for privatization to Nasdaq's custodial account, and then we can apply for forced privatization. , shareholders who hold tradable shares have no room for rebuttal, and various stock agencies will assist us in completing the follow-up stock repurchase work."

"Very good!" Li Mu nodded with a smile, and said, "Since our money has arrived, let Apple executives sign it as soon as possible."

After that, Li Mu said to Li Ziwei: "Ziwei, notify Cook now, and let Cook inform all Apple board members that they are ready to sign in the afternoon. After signing, we will immediately pay them 50% of the purchase price, and the rest 50%, I will also pay in full within three months as agreed."

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

Li Mu said: "It's better to choose a date than to hit the date. Anyway, all the details have been negotiated, the framework agreement has been signed, the actual transfer agreement has been drawn up, and our money has arrived. What else is there to wait for?

You tell them that if you sign today, you'll pay them an extra 20% on top of the 50% contractually stated! "

The contract template stipulates that 50% of the purchase price will be paid immediately after signing, and the remaining 50% will be divided into three months. Li Mu can divide the 50% into three months to pay a little bit, or he can pay all at once on the same day. After paying, or delaying the payment until the last day of three months, in short, within the scope stipulated in the contract, as long as he likes, he can do whatever he wants.

Therefore, Li Mucai decided that as long as Apple signed today, 70% of the purchase price would be paid to them today. They have been in a hurry to cash out recently, and they will take away 70% on the same day, which must be very attractive to them.

Li Ziwei immediately said: "Then I will contact Cook now and ask him to communicate and reply as soon as possible."

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Apple has been in a special state of unease lately.

This kind of apprehension stems from their distrust of Li Mu. While they are looking forward to Li Mu's acquisition of Apple, they are worried that Li Mu will tear up the framework agreement anytime and anywhere, and let Apple fall into the abyss alone.

The reason for this feeling is that Apple's stock price has dropped a bit in the past two days. When I communicated with Li Mu about the framework agreement, the stock price was 4.15, but at this moment, the stock price has dropped to 3.74.

The reason why it has bottomed out and is still falling slowly is that the mess left by the iPod business is constantly fermenting, just like a box of spoiled fruit. Smells stale, and stinky water flows out.

A large number of iPod users who want to return the goods have not been effectively dealt with. The resellers have not paid back the prepaid money to Apple, and they have not received Apple's funds for processing returns. At this time, they dare not accept the user's return Otherwise, the cost and risk will all be double bundled to yourself.

However, users' demands have not been effectively resolved for a long time, which makes users' anger continue to accumulate, and they continue to protest against Apple and Apple dealers online and offline, which has brought serious negative effects to Apple.

In addition, resellers have also begun to quarrel with Apple, and some resellers have even joined forces to sue the court, which further aggravates Apple's current scandal.

At this time, the foundry began to jump out to join in the fun again. They claimed that Apple still has a considerable amount of payment for goods that has not been paid, which has brought huge financial pressure to the foundry and made Apple in a bad mood for a while.

Because of this, Apple is looking forward to Li Mu's acquisition as promised. After all, the stock price is still falling. If Li Mu suddenly announces his abandonment, their assets will shrink a lot.

If Li Mu abides by the framework agreement, then Li Mu will purchase at a stock price of $4.15. According to the agreement, the actual purchase price is 90% of $4.15, or $3.73, but if it is converted to 90% at the current price of $3.74, then The actual purchase price is only 3.36. By that time, their assets will shrink by more than 60%. This is too tragic for Apple's shareholders.

Tim Cook is also very worried about Li Mu breaking his appointment, because he also holds a considerable amount of Apple stock. Normally, due to Apple's internal restrictions, it will take several years for these stocks to be gradually cashed out, but if this continues, it will not take long for Apple The stock price of the company will fall below its net assets, and at that time, I will have nothing left. However, according to the company's regulations, if I resign early, the remaining shares will be repurchased by the company at a very low price. Basically, there is no more hair.

However, if Li Mu takes over the offer, he can cash out all his Apple shares in one go. In any case, the price of $4.15 is much higher than the price of the company's repurchase. In this way, he will be able to advance ahead of schedule. Cash in on a fortune.

In addition, Li Mu promised to give himself 150% of his salary after joining Muye Technology. Not only did he make more money, but he also joined the world's top Internet company, so no matter how Tim Cook calculated this account, he felt that he was being Acquisition is the most appropriate.

It's no wonder that Tim Cook's loyalty to Apple is not enough. After all, everyone comes out to eat and eat. In front of individuals and companies, everyone must first consider the individual, and then the collective.

When resisting, it’s time to carry guns and guns, and it’s time to fight wars; if you lose the battle, you throw the gun, bend your waist, surrender and admit counsel; if there is a chance to transform into a leading party, he will definitely not hesitate. It is the thinking logic of normal people in capitalist society.

There are not a few people in the company who have the idea of ​​Tim Cook, because when Li Mu proposed the acquisition conditions for Apple, he asked most of the middle and high-level Apple to stay, so the company once organized a large-scale conversation at that time. Informing these employees of Makino's acquisition intentions and soliciting their opinions, it is surprising that almost the vast majority of Apple's middle and senior executives are willing to join Makino Technology after Apple is acquired.

For the current Apple employees, waiting for the company to be acquired, then incorporated into Makino Technology, and enjoying higher wages, the attraction is too great, and they don’t know how to refuse, as if the employees of BAIC have the opportunity to come Just like working at Mercedes-Benz and getting 1.5 times the salary, no one can think of a reason to refuse.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Tim Cook drove to the company. Apple's working hours were flexible working hours from 9:30 am to 10 o'clock in the morning, but Tim Cook had always been accustomed to arriving early.

After arriving at the company, Tim Cook asked his secretary to prepare a cup of coffee for him, and took advantage of the time before going to work to read today's latest newspaper prepared by the secretary.

Tim Cook is most concerned with newspapers in two places, one is Silicon Valley, the other is Wall Street, the former leads the global Internet, the latter leads the nation's money.

During a quick look, Tim Cook saw a piece of news published in the Wall Street Journal today, and the headline of the news made him break into a cold sweat: "According to reliable sources, Makino Technology is planning to acquire Apple and realize the Privatize!"

Carefully read the content of the news, Tim Cook found that the whole news was cut from the perspective of "according to insiders". Although there was no source, the content was described in great detail, including the fact that Makino Technology is Prepare to buy the non-tradable shares of Apple shareholders at 90% of the share price, and then buy the tradable shares of Nasdaq retail investors at 150% of the share price.

The news also commented on the practice of Muye Technology. They inferred that Li Mu gave Nasdaq investors a 150% premium, which seemed to be taking advantage of it, but he was actually quite scheming, and he hoped to take this opportunity to gain acceptance. The goodwill of Starq investors built a bridge for Makino Technology's listing on Nasdaq.

Tim Cook's face was blue after reading the news, he immediately turned on the TV in the office and began to watch the pre-market news of the Financial Channel.

There are still more than ten minutes before the Nasdaq opens, and the pre-market news at this time can easily affect the trend of the stock price today.

Sure enough, the economists in the pre-market news are interpreting the authenticity of the "Wall Street Journal" report. The economists support the report and believe that most of the content of the report has sufficient basis for judgment, and the authenticity should be very high. And he also predicted that today Apple's stock price will usher in the first big rebound in many days.

rebound...

Tim Cook's lungs are about to explode! Today's stock price rebound is meaningless, no matter how much the rebound is, because even if the stock price rebounds today, it is all good news from Makino Technology's acquisition of Apple. Because the real shareholders of Apple have signed a framework agreement, they simply enjoy no With such a benefit, even if the stock price skyrocketed to the level of 8 yuan before the fall, it would be useless, because Li Mu would only buy 90% of the stock in their hands at a price of $4.15.

Moreover, none of them dared to bargain with Li Mu again at this time, because once Li Mu became angry and officially announced that he would not acquire Apple, Apple's stock price would suffer a retaliatory fall. If there is a compensatory fall, it may directly hit the price within three dollars.

Therefore, Tim Cook was particularly angry, because such a leak of news would not do any good for Apple, but it would annoy Li Mu, because Li Mu would definitely think that the news was leaked from within Apple, and it looks like this , this possibility is indeed very high. At the same time, if Apple's stock price rebounded more sharply today, exceeding the $4.15 in the framework agreement, Li Mu's privatization offer would change from "premium" to "discount", which could have been To win the favor of Nasdaq investors with generous buybacks, but after such a toss, in the eyes of investors, Li Mu has become the culprit for buying their stocks at a low price. It is no wonder that Li Mu is not angry!