The rise of Hong Kong's wealthy families

The loss of Land Company has severely damaged the vitality of Jardine Matheson. Jardine Matheson has many subsidiaries, such as Kinmen Construction, Heung Kong Air Cargo Terminal, Jardine Aviation Services Group, Jardine Machinery Group, Jardine Catering Group, and Jardine Automobile Group. At the same time, there are a large number of investment projects overseas. Although they suffer losses every year, the Keswick family does not care.

The shareholders of Jardine Matheson were very dissatisfied with this, but unfortunately they could not change the strategy of the Keswick family.

Ximen's face turned blue. If the person in front of him was not the senior manager of HSBC Bank, he would definitely curse, "Well, I will seriously consider it. Jardine Matheson Company may also need follow-up loans. Please give Mr. Shen Bi your full support."

Shen Bi nodded perfunctorily, and in his heart he was already planning to obtain the benefits of HSBC in this war. The reason was very simple. Ximen was really not a good collaborator. He was worried that He Jiahao would swallow up both companies. Down.

Bao Weishi, who was sitting aside, also knew that Shen Bi's suggestion was reasonable, but he could not persuade the stubborn Simon Keswick.

Soon the news spread like wildfire that Manulife Development Company would fully acquire Jardine Matheson. It was as if a nuclear bomb had been dropped in Hong Kong. Citizens thought that He Jiahao was crazy. It was already great to acquire a real estate company, and now it was also acquiring Jardine Matheson at the same time. and company.

Although Jardine Matheson Company is not very profitable, it is second only to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in terms of size. It is like a mountain weighing on the heads of people in Xiangjiang. It is one of the four institutions that control Xiangjiang.

Soon the Securities Regulatory Office withdrew the anti-takeover plan of Jardine Matheson, so Simon Keswick could only announce that Jardine Matheson would conduct a counter-takeover in cash at 20% higher than the market price. It was also a full acquisition. At the same time, the Keswick family was secretly Collect funds and want to buy back the shares of Jardine Matheson Company. Because Land Company is already heavily in debt and does not have the huge funds to acquire the shares of Jardine Matheson Company, it can only let the Keswick family make the acquisition.

However, the Keswick family only has a few hundred million in cash, and it will take some time to raise the remaining funds. This puts the Keswick family in a very disadvantageous situation. If they are not careful, they will lose two companies and the family will lose its glory. foundation.

At the same time, Shen Bi of HSBC made an urgent appointment with Ho Ka-ho. He hoped to reconcile the conflicts between the two parties and allow HSBC to maintain its position as the number one consortium in Hong Kong.

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Shen Bi leaned on the chair and said with a humble smile, "He Sheng is indeed a famous figure in Hong Kong. He acquired two top companies as soon as he made a move. However, it caused great turmoil in Hong Kong, so HSBC is willing to mediate this time." Takeover battle. He Sheng can mention your conditions, and I can go and talk to Simon Keswick."

He Jiahao was sneering. He had known that HSBC couldn't help but intervene, but it was a little later than expected. On the surface, he smiled, "Mr. Shen Bi, our conditions are very simple. Give me the real estate company, and at the same time Yi Let’s exchange the shares controlled by the company and the Land Company at the current market price. What does Mr. Shen Bi think?”

Shen Bi was silent for a moment, pretending to be embarrassed and said, "He Sheng's request is very reasonable, but Simon Keswick is only willing to sell half of the real estate company. How about letting him compensate He Sheng elsewhere?"

"Mr. Shen Bi should know that the current situation of Jardine Matheson Company is not much better than that of Land Company. However, for the sake of Mr. Shen Bi, I am willing to give in and buy back half of Land Company at double the market price. The stocks, which involved cash payments, were loaned by HSBC Bank to Simon Keswick and the others, and then paid to me, and I do not accept installment payments." He Jiahao said with a smile.

Hearing this, Shen Bi's smile faded. Such a condition would undoubtedly transfer the losses of this acquisition war to HSBC. How could he agree to this?

In fact, this also means that He Jiahao is saying, "Telling you to mind your own business at HSBC", so Shen Bi becomes solemn.

"He Sheng, it is impossible for HSBC to agree to such conditions. HSBC is an intermediary and is only responsible for mediating the relationship between the two parties. Other matters are not HSBC's responsibility." Shen Bi said with a gloomy face.

"Mr. Shen Bi, the purpose of launching the acquisition war is to make profits. Does HSBC want my company to lose money?" He Jiahao spread his hands and said, I am not afraid of you, HSBC, if you want to help Simon Keswick They, I dare to use 10 billion to fight with you. Anyway, I have a lot of money.

"." Shen Bi glanced at He Jiahao and began to think again. He Jiahao's tough attitude surprised him. At first, he thought that He Jiahao would be calm and prudent when it was his first time to conduct such a large acquisition, but the result was this. Vice posture.

"He Sheng, let's do this. I persuaded Simon Keswick and them to sell the Land Company, but the exchange of mutually controlled stocks will require He Sheng to suffer some losses. He Sheng repurchased the shares of the Land Company at a premium of 10%, Simon Keswick Buy back the shares of Jardine Matheson Company at 80% of the market price." Shen Bi made another mild suggestion.

It is impossible for HSBC to spend billions to help Simon Keswick regain Jardine Matheson and Land. The two companies are already heavily in debt. It will take two months to repay the current loans from HSBC. If they are to transfer the loans again, It is likely to affect HSBC's globalization strategy.

Of course, Shen Bi would not do anything to harm HSBC in order to restrict He Jiahao.

"No, I don't accept this suggestion." He Jiahao shook his head, "The market price is 80%?"

Shen Bi pondered for a moment, "Okay! Then I will go and communicate with Simon Keswick first, and then I will feed the news back to He Sheng."

He Jiahao nodded and agreed.

Then the two of them left the Peninsula Hotel. After all, they were both busy people and didn't have much time to chat, nor did they have much friendship to spend on chatting.

He Jiahao, who was in the back seat of the car, had a gloomy look on his face. Shen Bi's intervention would definitely cost him some money, but he didn't intend to suffer this loss. Anyway, he hadn't reached an agreement with Ximen yet. Even if he did something, Shen Bi couldn't tell him. Other bad words.

Therefore, he made up his mind to raise the share price of Jardine Matheson Company to a much higher level than that of Land Company to make up for this part of the loss.

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After He Jiahao came back, he immediately summoned Shen Dingqian, "Let Wei Lisi immediately raise the stock price of Yihe Company as high as possible."

"Boss, raising the stock price is not very beneficial to us." Shen Dingqian reminded.

"It is impossible for us to win over Jardine Matheson Company. This is also part of the plan." Seeing Shen Dingqian nod, He Jiahao continued, "I have already negotiated with Shen Bi from HSBC Bank. All Jardine Matheson shares of Land Company will be sold. To the Keswick family. If the stock price is raised now, although some investors will sell their stocks, most investors are very greedy and will definitely not sell. Then our existing funds can sustain it. Keswick will If the Grams buy back Jardine shares, we will still make a fortune."

Shen Dingqian's eyes brightened a lot. It turned out that the boss had this plan in mind, "Okay, I will go to Asia Securities Company immediately to discuss raising the stock price."

He Jiahao felt that Shen Dingqian was much inferior to Huo Jianning. If he issued an order in front of Huo Jianning, Huo Jianning would definitely be able to guess some of his intentions.

Therefore, Shen Dingqian still needs to continue to cultivate.