Chapter 1844 SUN's Acquisition Intention

Xiao Qi's stay in the United States will not be too long, and what needs to be done must be done in advance.

So after coming out of the Mexican restaurant, he didn't waste the afternoon, but directly got into the car waiting outside, and arrived at an underground garage on Wall Street with the bodyguards.

Originally, in a place like Wall Street where the land is very expensive, there are usually no parking spaces at noon, but as soon as Xiao Qi's three cars entered the garage, there were special people to help guide them, and finally parked in an open and empty parking space .

Standing next to the parking space were two tall, burly foreign middle-aged men. One was slightly fat and wore glasses, while the other was a handsome middle-aged man, dressed very trendily.

"Qi Shao!"

Seeing Xiao Qi get out of the car, the two greeted him quickly, and the address was still in awkward Chinese.

"Hello, both of you." Xiao Qi shook hands with them and said with a smile: "Mr. Canberra and Mr. Dagan, I have long admired your two names!"

"Qi Shao, you are too polite. What is our fame compared to yours?" Canbella, who was wearing glasses, laughed.

"Let's talk about it upstairs!" The middle-aged handsome Dagan waved his hands and said, "I can't wait to hear what new investment ideas Qishao has!"

"Then please!"

Every piece of land on Wall Street is expensive, and even the world's top 500 companies may not be able to own an office building of their own here.

The investment bank that Canbera and Dagan worked for naturally has this qualification.

There are five major investment banks on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman, and Bear Stearns, but it cannot be said that they are the world's five largest investment banks.

Among them, in addition to Goldman Sachs being the number one, the top five should at least join UBS Warburg and Credit Suisse First Boston, two giant investment banks from Switzerland.

Canbella and Dagan worked for Credit Suisse First Boston, a specialized investment banking division affiliated to Credit Suisse Bank, with its headquarters nominally located in Switzerland. But in fact, the US headquarters controls everything about it.

Next to Credit Suisse First Boston Bank is the New York headquarters of Deutsche Bank of the same size as it, as well as the headquarters of JP Morgan Chase, and a little further is Goldman Sachs. Anyway, there are financial predators all around.

Xiao Qi had an impression of Credit Suisse First Boston because it was the investment bank that had the most active contact with the Alibaba Group in 2013, although it is impossible for an investment bank to be able to eat such a large piece of fat underwriting the IPO of the Alibaba Group. However, it is an obvious trend that people abruptly snatch fat from several major investment banks in the United States.

Xiao Qi's reincarnation was at the end of 2013. At this time, the Alibaba Group had not yet been listed, but the overall trend was already obvious, and Credit Suisse First Boston had fully invested in it. It is estimated that the ipo program can be launched in the second half of 2014!

With such a powerful investment bank, Xiao Qi can naturally cooperate with them.

For Xiao Qi, the only purpose of the investment bank is to help him acquire all kinds of useful companies.

As for those who often recommend themselves and come to recommend various financial products, they have never met Xiao Qi.

No matter who it is, even if it is Citibank, which has the best relationship with Xiao Qi, a senior vice president wants to recommend to Xiao Qi a financial derivative product that is so complicated that the manual alone has 123 pages. He vowed that this would definitely make money, but Xiao Qi only answered him with one word: "Get lost!"

...the result later. Xiao Qi complained to Citibank in a formal letter, causing the senior vice president to lose his job.

With so many rumors, no one dared to sell financial products to Xiao Qi anymore, which caused countless investment bankers to sigh, which is why Dagan said just now. The reason why he was going to listen to Xiao Qi's investment idea - usually, many rich people would go to investment banks to buy some products.

But Xiao Qi doesn't care what outsiders think, he just needs to know what he wants.

Canbella, who is Swiss, is now the chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston. He is honest and stable, and he is the first choice to sit in the rear.

Dagan is an American. He has been the CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston. He has been very aggressive since his debut. In his career of more than 20 years, he has been responsible for hundreds of large and small acquisitions, mergers, investments, and restructurings. Business is also the number one contributor to Credit Suisse First Boston's firm foothold in the United States.

Sitting in the spacious and bright office, Xiao Qi drank freshly ground coffee milk, looked at the bright street scene outside, and suddenly said with a smile: "Mr. Dagan, your secretary is very beautiful, even more beautiful than those big stars."

"Hehe, call me Weisen! I knew that Qi Shao is a fellow." Da Gan smiled proudly, "It took me a lot of effort to get Xie Linna. But the woman's The expense is really high, raising her is like raising a small theater troupe!"

"Women, if you dress up beautifully, isn't it convenient for us men?" Xiao Qi shrugged, "Men don't even have this ability, how can they hug left and right?"

"Haha! It's not easy to hug left and right, in the United States." Dagan joked: "I think the ancient Hua people are the best, and you can marry as many wives as you want!"

The two were chatting and gossiping here, while Canbella next to him just listened with a smile and didn't speak.

When he felt that it was almost done, Dagan began to turn to the topic: "Qi Shao, I received a call from Hoffman a few days ago, and I was always excited. I don't know what you want from us at First Boston? Does it mean that we are also qualified to enter your vision and cooperate with you?"

"Weixin, you are too modest. If Credit Suisse doesn't have the ability, who else can say that they are a successful bank?" Xiao Qi smiled and said, "I have a big deal to ask you."

"Big deal?" Canbera's eyes lit up immediately, "Qi Shao, I don't dare to say anything else, but if you cooperate with us, there will definitely not be such bad behavior as the American investment bank, which eats up buyers and eats up sellers. Credit Suisse First Boston is definitely your trusted partner!"

Dagan on the side also asked excitedly: "I don't know what kind of investment you want to make? Or what company do you want to buy?"

No wonder the two were so excited.

Whether Xiao Qi asked Citigroup to help buy LinkedIn and Nortel Networks, or asked Goldman Sachs to help buy Infineon, he was very generous, and the commission he gave was also very sufficient, allowing Citigroup and Goldman Sachs to make enough money.

Helping lead the buying and selling of companies has always been one of the important businesses of investment banks. Of course, Credit Suisse First Boston is also looking forward to such fat meat falling on its own head.

The most important thing is that by helping Xiao Qi and successfully establishing a relationship with Xiao Qi, then if Xiao Qi's company wants to go public in the future, wouldn't it also have a share of Credit Suisse First Boston?

"How difficult do you think it is for me to buy Sun?" Xiao Qi didn't disappoint them, and broke out such a shocking news directly.

"Sun company?"

Dagan raised his brows, "Sun with java.va programming language and solaris operating system?"

"You are right." Xiao Qi nodded slightly, "I want to buy it! Do you have the ability to do this?"

"Sun company has a total of 726.46 million shares. The current stock price is about 12 US dollars, and the market value is about 8.7 billion US dollars. Do you decide to buy it at a premium?" Dagan quickly reported a lot of data, showing his horror memory.

…"How is it possible?" Xiao Qi smiled, "Don't you think its current stock price is too high?"

"hehe."

Dagan smiled without saying a word.

In fact, of course he knew this, saying this was just to elicit Xiao Qi's real target price.

"I hope you will pay attention to Sun Company now, and when the time is right, you can start a formal inquiry with them." Xiao Qi said in a harmonious voice: "The price I gave Credit Suisse First Boston is as long as it can If Sun is privatized, then I will give you a commission of 200 million US dollars."

Listening to the price tag, both Canbera and Dagan laughed.

The commission of 200 million US dollars is equivalent to the return they got from operating Google's listing independently.

Compared with the cumbersome and complicated IPO, acquiring a company alone is a piece of cake at all-things that do not involve government departments and securities departments will be infinitely simpler.

"So, when is the right time?" Dagan continued to ask.

"When I think their prices have fallen to a reasonable range." Xiao Qi said mysteriously, "Believe me, within half a year at most, our cooperation will be completed."

Both Canbera and Dagan nodded slightly for the half-year guarantee given by Xiao Qi. If they just wait blindly, then the various costs and efforts they pay will continue to increase. For an investment bank, it is not Not a good thing.

As for what price Xiao Qi wanted to buy Sun, they were all curious.

But no matter how they guessed, they never expected that just a few months later, with the outbreak of the financial turmoil and the U.S. stock market plummeting, Sun's stock price dropped to 2.59 US dollars per share, or a market value of 1.9 billion US dollars. It has plummeted by 80% since then! !

It was at that time that Xiao Qi would really make a move.

No reason to buy high-priced, cheap these Yankees, right? ur752