Chapter 135 The Porsche Family's Enmity

In the acquisition of the Volkswagen Group, Sergesha deliberately invited his old opponent, who was best at leveraged buyouts, so this time, Sergesha hoped that KKR could attack the Volkswagen Group in the open market, thereby lobbying for Peterson. Activities create conditions.

Speaking of Volkswagen, this world-renowned car factory was founded in Nazi Germany, and it originally claimed to produce cars that everyone could afford. Hitler even made a plan to save five marks a week for this purpose, but the money was eventually diverted to the war.

After the war, the British took over the Nazi car factory. And restarted his Beetle production line. With the popularity of the Beetle, the Volkswagen Group began to revive. However, as early as the establishment of the factory, Volkswagen's flagship product, the Beetle, was designed by the founder of Porsche, Ferdinand Porsche. Therefore, the Porsche family and the Volkswagen Group are actually inextricably linked. They have always held a large number of Volkswagen Group stocks in their hands, and these stocks are what Peterson wants to fight for first. According to public financial data, the Volkswagen shares held by the Porsche family are about 25%, second only to the 30% shares held by the largest shareholder, the Lower Saxony state government.

But these things are still secondary. If you want to acquire Volkswagen, there is one hurdle that you can't get around anyway, and that is the one specially tailored for Volkswagen by the German government. This law was formulated specifically to prevent the VW Group from being hostilely acquired by foreign consortiums when the finances were tight. Its purpose is to firmly hold the company in the hands of German investors. Without exception, all the financial institutions under Sergey's hands now belong to foreign investors. How to break the protection of this company is a difficulty that Sergey must face.

KKR's action was quick, and they began to absorb Volkswagen shares from scattered investors in the Frankfurt market. Now, when the US dollar is rebounding strongly not long after the signing, the acquisition of KKR is actually at the right time.

The stock price fluctuations of the Volkswagen Group attracted the attention of the regulators of the Frankfurt stock market. They quickly ordered an investigation into the stock price fluctuations of the Volkswagen Group. Under the attention of the regulators, KKR had to stand up and admit that it initiated the acquisition. .

KKR wanted to annex Volkswagen, and the news spread throughout the German capital market in an instant. The German media kept exclaiming that wolf is coming. Now KKR was completely exposed, but Seryozha was basically satisfied with KKR's acquisition. After paying the commission, the shares were transferred to a Swiss company under the name of Donia. Soon the German media discovered that the investor who originally wanted to acquire Volkswagen was from Mediterranean Shipping Company.

As a result, various scandals of the Mediterranean Shipping Company have been uncovered, such as the unclear relationship with the Mafia, the food smuggling cases involving the United States, and the ships involved in the Guantanamo Bay attack also came from Mediterranean Shipping Company. This multinational shipping company, second only to Maersk in Europe, is now in the hands of a mysterious and beautiful woman, which in itself is the biggest news.

After Peterson visited the Porsche family, he brought Sergesha a piece of good news, that is, the Porsche family only planned to sell 49% of Volkswagen shares to Blackstone, and the 40% Nine's shares all come from descendants of Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ernst Porsche.

After Peterson told Mikhail the result, he also told Mikhail about a bloody drama of the Porsche family, which is why the direct descendants of Ferdinand Porsche are willing to sell all their ancestral properties.

This matter goes back to Ferdinand Porsche, the first generation founder of the Porsche family. Ferdinand Porsche has a son and a daughter, the daughter is Luisa Porsche, and the son is Ernst Porsche. After the old Porsche died, his children each inherited 50% of the old Porsche's property.

Until the second generation, the Porsche family remained united and harmonious. But among the members of the third generation of the Porsche family, there was a gap because of a woman.

Among the descendants of Ernst Porsche, the most outstanding is Alexander Porsche, he is the designer of the best-selling Porsche 911. And Luisa Porsche Porsche's son Piech is an excellent engine designer and business operator. The original harmonious relationship between the two families was deeply divided because of Piech.

As Luisa's son, Piech naturally joined Porsche as an adult. However, within Porsche, when Ernst was in power, the most eye-catching heir of the Porsche Group was Ernst's son, Alexander Porsche. As the designer of the classic Porsche 911, Alexander Porsche is also outstanding in his work, but Alexander's artistic temperament makes him a bit incompetent, so the Porsche family is slowly in a weak position in the company.

Facing Piëch's aggression, Ernst had no choice but to kill him in order to avoid the split of the company, and ruthlessly drove his nephew out of the company. Piëch, who was expelled from Porsche, briefly joined Daimler-Benz. Later, Piëch joined Audi, step by step to the position of CEO, and thus entered the ranks of Volkswagen Group executives. With the help of the public platform, Piëch, who has become famous, began to take revenge on the Porsche family bit by bit. As Piëch's strength increased greatly, the equity balance among the descendants of the Porsche family was broken.

The immediate members of the angry Porsche family can't tolerate this happening. They are willing to introduce new investors to compete with Piëch, who holds shares in Volkswagen and Porsche. So when Peterson came to the door, they agreed to Peterson's proposal without hesitation. As long as Peterson can help them get back the controlling stake in Porsche, they are willing to sell all the shares in Volkswagen.

Calculated in this way, Seryozha can get 12.5% ​​of the shares from the Porsche family, plus the 10% acquired by KKR from the open market, Seryozha's shareholding will become the second largest after the Lower Saxony state government. shareholder.

This deal is a good deal, and Seriosha is willing to get involved in the internal strife of the Porsche family. What's more, if he can get the support of the Porsche family, Seryozha's road to enter the automobile industry will be much easier.

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