Chapter 540： Personally build the ace department

"George, what is the specific situation?"

As soon as I arrived at the Guangming Fund, I saw George Berkeley waiting in the office. Xia Yu went straight to the subject and walked to his seat.

"Boss, now I have entrusted a British public accountant company to estimate the Financial Times Company, and I have scheduled a second negotiation with Pearson Group tomorrow afternoon."

George Berkeley said with a hint of excitement, and he still felt a little dazed now, just like a dream.

Xia Yu nodded slightly and asked again: "Why is the change so big, do you know that you are willing?"

Hearing Xia Yu’s inquiry, George Berkeley suppressed his mood, sorted out his thoughts, and said in detail: “In the beginning, after we gave the quotation, the Pearson Group directly rejected it, claiming that the Financial Times was not for sale and refused to negotiate with us. It is useless for us to increase the price step by step in the future, and the Pearson Group will not even talk about it."

"But early this morning, we raised our offer again. When we offered 12 million to acquire 71% of Pearson Group's equity, a senior executive of Pearson Group softened his attitude and sent a message to accept our tender offer. The specific price will be discussed separately. At that time, I went to the headquarters of Pearson Group to meet him."

"Pearson Group is not satisfied with the price of 12 million pounds, but I can be sure that Pearson Group is willing to sell us all the shares in the Financial Times Company!"

Xia Yu frowned and told him instinctively that there must be something he didn't know about, otherwise Pearson Group would not change its attitude drastically.

And it doesn't set up barriers, but is entangled in price. When did the British guys talk so well?

Things were too abnormal, and Xia Yu was rather suspicious.

But what George Berkeley is saying now can't give him useful information, and he can't analyze it.

"George, think about it, is there any problem?"

Xia Yu asked.

George Berkeley closed his eyes and thought, while Xia Yu waited quietly, thinking about it in his mind.

About ten minutes later, George Berkeley shook his head at Xia Yu with a somewhat ugly expression: "Boss, I sorted it out, but I didn't find anything wrong for the time being. The attitude of Pearson Group is more kind."

Seeing this, Xia Yu could only give up his doubts for the time being, and decided to go ahead and take one step at a time. After all, although things were abnormal, the current situation was in his favor.

In any case, even if it is a poisonous cake, you must eat it first. Anyway, others don't know that he has money in his hands. Xia Yu is confident that he can survive even if something goes wrong.

After making up his mind, Xia Yu told George Berkeley, who was still frowning and thinking: "George, don't think about it anymore. Then you can pay more attention to the acquisition. Since the Pearson Group is willing to sell, you should speed up the progress and make the financial The shares of the Times Company are taken down!"

"understand!"

George Berkeley looked loose and nodded seriously.

Xia Yu pondered for a moment and asked again: "How is the progress of the Daily Telegraph and Rolls-Royce Motor Company?"

"The progress of the "Daily Telegraph" acquisition is fairly smooth. Our people have already contacted Black. Although Black rejected our several offers, according to our analysis, we only dislike the low price."

"Very good, continue to speed up the progress, it doesn't matter if the price is higher, I just want the result!"

Xia Yu said with satisfaction, once again clarifying his attitude.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the entire European media industry had not yet exploded, so even if the current purchase price doubled, when Europe came out of the quagmire and the media industry broke out, Xia Yu still made a lot of money, so he didn’t care about paying more. , As long as you get it, you can play the political value earlier.

"Where is the Rolls Royce Motor Company?"

"Now we are still collecting information and entrusting a British public accountant company to assist us in the acquisition. The company's specialized acquisition team has built the skeleton and is still filling up the manpower."

George Berkeley reports truthfully.

The acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars was too difficult, so he sought the assistance of a British public accountant company. The next step was to find a bank with a strong network and a greater success rate. Now the company can do to form a strong A strong elite acquisition team improves the success rate of acquisitions.

It's a pity that the Bright Fund is a new company after all. Even though he has fully mobilized his contacts, there are not many elites recruited.

Especially now that three projects are being carried out at the same time, and the Financial Times company's sudden progress has soared, causing him to focus on this, so the acquisition of Rolls-Royce Motor Company has slowed down.

After learning about the situation, Xia Yu thought for a while. It seemed that the leisurely days had to be ended, and he could only speed up the progress by checking it himself.

Thinking of this, he instructed George Berkeley: "George, I will take over the construction of the acquisition team of Rolls-Royce Motor Company. You will buy two newspapers with all your strength!"

George Berkeley was taken aback. Although he had some doubts in his heart, he still obeyed the order and secretly encouraged himself to go all out to deal with it and produce results as soon as possible.

"Yes, I will never let you down, boss!"

"Well, come on!"

After Xia Yu encouraged him, George Berkeley left the office with high morale, Xia Yu also stood up and went to build the acquisition team.

Soon, Bright Fund Co., Ltd. recruited again on a large scale, but the threshold was set high, and the salary package was also high.

At the same time, Xia Yu is no longer limited to Korn Ferry International, but at the same time issued hunting tasks to the four major headhunting companies. They are all financial elites proficient in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and restructuring consulting services.

He intends to personally cast the M&A department of Bright Fund and make it the face of Bright Fund, which is exactly what he needs.

In the next few decades, Europe will be turbulent and various opportunities will emerge in endlessly. Of course, Xia Yu, who holds capital, must join the gluttonous feasts that have not yet occurred.

However, many companies are not so easy to acquire, especially the higher the value and the more important a country’s people’s livelihood and safety, the more difficult it is to acquire.

If you want to eat more potential companies and acquire as much as possible wholly-owned, you need Xia Yu to have a good set of teeth, otherwise, he can't say anything, and he will easily die.

Therefore M&A and restructuring are the top priorities.

As for other fund raising consulting, asset management and other common businesses of other fund companies, Xia Yu intends to put it aside first.

Anyway, he has no shortage of funds for the time being, and he is also relatively greedy. He intends to eat good things into his stomach and does not want to share it with others easily. The most important thing is safety and control of the company.

So there is no plan to raise funds from outside for the time being.

The positioning of the Guangming Fund is to be a cormorant, eating a delicious fish, and then spit it out to Xia Yu to distribute to other places.

Xia Yu has the memories of many future financial tycoons, especially the memory of one of them being the king of Wall Street and the co-founder of Blackstone Group Steve Schwarzman.

The M&A business is the trump card of the Blackstone Group. Since its establishment in 1985, it has accumulated nearly 400 billion US dollars in business volume.

Therefore, Xia Yu is another Steve Schwarzman, and he is still completely. Xia Yu is fully confident in building an M&A department.