Rebirth 76: Industrial Internet Empire

Yang Mo pondered for a long time and then said: "To be honest, the two conditions you proposed are not harsh. They are within the scope of what we will compensate you, but it cannot be completed in this way of a written agreement!"

"Why?" Alan Puchak asked puzzledly.

"Because by doing this, you are suspected of sacrificing the interests of other small and medium-sized shareholders to maximize your own interests, which will have a bad impact on your future role as Havas CEO!" Yang Mo explained.

Alan Puchak also realized that this matter was inappropriate, and the two conditions he proposed were indeed in conflict.

But even if Alain Puchak dreams of ousting Vincent Bollore from the position of chairman of the boards of Vivendi and Havas, he can't just give up the easy-to-get benefits, right?

Yang Mo looked at Alan Puchak who was deep in thought and continued: "I have a way to get the best of both worlds. It was the strategy used by Zhiyuan Group when it acquired Dr. Andy's equity in Cisco and Sun..."

"What strategy?" Alan Puchak looked delighted.

"After Zhiyuan controls Vivendi, we will re-employ you as the CEO of Havas. We can use option incentives to partially compensate you. For the shortfall, you can invest part of the cash from the sale of equity in Andy Although I can’t guarantee how much profit you will get from investing, I might be able to give you a little extra surprise..." Yang Mo promised.

When it comes to this, Alan Puchak naturally has no reason to refuse. No matter what, as long as he can bring down Bollore, who is unfaithful, he will accept some losses!

"Mr. Yang, I will contact the other shareholders of Havas right now. When Vivendi acquired the equity of Havas, it adopted the method of equity swap. In addition to my 6.7% equity, I should be able to get 5.8% for you. % of the equity..." Alan Puchak is willing to risk it all!

Alan Puchak felt that the stupidest thing he had done in his life was to agree to Vivendi's merger request. After the merger was successful, Bollore, who was extremely controlling, did not keep his promise, but used an iron fist to control Everything about Havas!

Obviously, Bollore, who was too strong, had not had time to win over people's hearts. It took Alan Puchak only one week to convince most of Havas's small and medium-sized shareholders and get 5.35% of the shares.

It wasn't until Zhiyuan Group obtained 17.55% of the non-tradable shares that Vincent Bollore discovered some clues...

At this time, Lin Xi had secretly obtained 4.5% of Vivendi's outstanding shares on the Second Market of the Paris Stock Exchange.

In fact, Zhiyuan Group has controlled 22.05% of Vivendi's equity and became Vivendi's largest shareholder!

Yang Mo was not in a hurry to convene a shareholders' meeting. Before the situation was completely clear, he was like a harmless rabbit who would not show his fangs...

After half a month, Yang Mo came to Vivendi headquarters again.

"Mr. Yang! If you just want Havas's game business, we can sit down and talk slowly! Why are you doing this?" Mari Messio said with a wry smile.

Yang Mo chuckled and said: "Mr. Messio, to be honest with you, we wanted Blizzard Game Company from the beginning, but you didn't agree no matter what, so we had to make this decision rashly. Please forgive me..."

"Mr. Yang, Mr. Vincent Bollore, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vivendi, would like to invite you for an interview. Do you think?" Mari Messio said with some fear. His intestines are about to turn green now, and Blizzard Game Company Just sell it to Zhiyuan happily! Having reached this stage, I am afraid that my role as CEO has come to an end!

"Mr. Bollore asked me for an interview?"

Mari Messio nodded: "Mr. Yang, we have come up with a new cooperation plan. Vivendi is going to spin off Havas again and exchange the 17.55% equity you hold into Havas through equity swap." shareholding, so that you can become the actual controller of Havas.”

"Is this your idea or Mr. Bollore's?" Yang Mo asked with interest.

"This is the resolution of the majority of shareholders. It is a good result for both of us. You have obtained the controlling interest in Havas, and Vivendi does not have to be trapped in a meaningless equity dispute!" Mari Messio said .

Yang Mo chuckled and said: "Mr. Messio, you may not know much about Zhiyuan Group. What we want to do will never be done halfway. Also, even if we get the controlling stake of Vivendi, we will not give up. Interfering with management operations will not affect your CEO position unless you make major decision-making errors!"

"You won't regret that I rejected your proposals many times in previous negotiations?" Mari Messio asked with some uneasiness.

Yang Mo laughed loudly and said: "Why should I hold a grudge against you? On the contrary, you left an excellent impression on me in the previous negotiations. We both know what the other party wants most, and the negotiations have made very good progress." , and even almost reached a consensus!”

"But why did you later change your mind and acquire Vivendi's equity?" Mari Messio asked in confusion.

"Maybe it's because of you?" Yang Mo said with a smile.

"because I?"

"Mr. Messio, you have seen through our determination to win Blizzard Game Company at a glance, so we have to worry that Vivendi will ask for more chips in the sale of Blizzard Game Company's equity!" Yang Mo explained.

Mari Messio smiled bitterly and shook his head. This incredible reason made him dumbfounded. At this moment, a blond secretary came in and reported: "Your Excellency, Mr. Bollore has finished what he is doing. You You can go with Mr. Yang..."

As soon as he entered the VIP reception room, Vincent Bollore stood up, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, on behalf of the Vivendi Group, I welcome you to join the board of directors. This is our honor, Vivendi With your joining, we will definitely develop rapidly!”

"Mr. Bollore, you are too polite!" Yang Mo also smiled and stretched out his hand.

"Mr. Yang, I fully support the last equity swap negotiation you had with Mali. We also made a special equity swap plan for Cisco and Havas!" Bolloré said with a sincere face.

"Oh?"

"Mr. Yang, this is what I think. Cisco's market value is too huge. Even 1% of the equity is close to 60 billion US dollars! Vivendi will definitely not be able to spare so much cash at once, so our plan is to put all the games The business will be spun off from Havas, and its market value should be around US$17.5 billion. We will use Havas’s equity to replace the remaining part..." Bollore said in a clear voice.