Penguin's financial director's speculation was correct. Sure enough, Xiao Ma received the news the next day: Blue Ocean Capital was aggressively acquiring Penguin shares in the secondary market, and South African AB Bank and M Holding Group also showed signs of contact with Blue Ocean Capital.
Only then did Xiao Ma realize that Blue Ocean Capital had never withdrawn from this war, but what they wanted to capture was not the cities and places outside. Blue Ocean Capital’s real target was Penguin itself, and now they no longer hide it.
, officially showed its fangs to this penguin.
Brother Ma immediately convened an emergency meeting with all the core staff. This is a rare situation since the establishment of Penguin Company. Everyone still remembers the last time that everyone was called to a meeting in such a hurry. Many years ago, it was when Penguin Company was faced with where to go and whether to consider selling it.
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Several issues were mainly discussed at the meeting: First, does Blue Ocean Capital have the strength to acquire Penguin? The answer from the analysis is that it is possible. Although the Penguin founder team currently holds 37.5% of the shares, Xiao Ma personally holds
The shareholding is only 14.43%. According to the information analysis obtained by Penguin Company, Blue Ocean Capital has at least tens of billions of funds. Although Blue Ocean Capital has invested a large amount of funds before, the investment projects include many physical properties, stocks, and securities.
It is very easy to mortgage and obtain financing. If Blue Ocean Capital really does this, the amount of funds obtained will be astonishing. The current stock price of Penguin is more than 30 yuan. In theory, if the other party concentrates tens of billions of funds again,
If we can get the support of some large investment banks, we can completely complete the merger and acquisition of Penguin. Of course, this requires that AB Bank and M Holding Group are willing to support the acquisition of Blue Ocean Capital. However, even without the support of the two companies, Blue Ocean Capital has entered Penguin strongly.
, it is entirely possible to influence the company's future strategic decisions. However, even if it is not possible to control the company, just stepping in to influence the company's decision-making is no longer acceptable to Xiao Ma.
The second question is whether Penguin itself has the strength to launch a counter-takeover? The answer from the analysis is that it is very difficult. Because Penguin and its core team have overdrawn a lot of strength in the previous horse racing and enclosure activities, it is difficult to have funds to organize it now.
Launch an effective counterattack.
The third question is how to organize a counterattack under the current circumstances? After thinking for a long time, everyone finally came to the conclusion that the only way is to use the victory just achieved to announce a large number of good news, increase the stock price, and increase the cost of the acquirer.
On the one hand, Brother Ma must personally take action to stabilize the two major shareholders of AB Bank and M Holding Group. As long as these two people can support Brother Ma, then at least Penguin's dominant position can be kept unchanged. As for how to completely defeat each other
If you refuse, you need to find another way.
However, Nangong Ming had already expected Penguin's unoriginal plans. Just when Penguin was about to release good news, rumors spread in the market that Penguin's annual performance was expected to decline sharply, and a large number of data analyzes were cited.
At the same time, Fox, Houlang and other companies that were losing ground unexpectedly invited Ma Baba from Ali Company to join the competition, making Penguin's outcome in this round of competition even more uncertain. For a time, Penguin's stock price fell sharply, from 37 in two days.
The price dropped to 32 yuan, and Blue Ocean Capital once again began to devour the market crazily.
Facing the situation of losing ground, Xiao Ma immediately set off, and the first stop was directed at M Holding Group, the largest shareholder of Penguin. In M Holding Group, Xiao Ma recited the poem with great emotion, and the professional team spent a day and night preparing it for him.
The speech "I Have a Dream" described his ideal Penguin company to the executives of M Holding Group. At the end of the speech, Xiao Ma was almost moved by himself, as if such a penguin was very
It will soon stand in front of the public. I don’t know if M Holding Group believes in this bright future, but in the end they basically stated that they will not sell their Penguin stocks for the time being and will continue to support Xiao Ma. Although this statement
It was a little pale, but it finally gave little nourishment to Xiao Ma's anxious heart.
After stabilizing the M Holding Group, Xiao Ma still did not dare to take it lightly, and rushed to the other major shareholder, AB Bank. When Xiao Ma rushed to AB Bank, he found that Blue Ocean Capital had already arrived. Not only that, Xiao Ma
Marco also discovered that the main negotiator sent by Blue Ocean Capital was a black guy, and most of the negotiation team at AB Bank were black, and the black guy from Blue Ocean Capital got along very well with the people from AB Bank.
Everyone seems to have found a sense of intimacy on the skin.
This black young man was none other than Mark next to Bai Shuo. Following Nangong Ming's instructions, he came to AB Bank first to start negotiations. The initial intention of the negotiation was to purchase Penguin stock based on a 10% increase in the current market price. However, before leaving,
Before, Nangong Ming also specially gave Mark two sealed documents, instructing Mark to open the first document after the first contact between Brother Ma and AB Bank, and to open the second document if there are major changes in things or if the situation is urgent.
Nangong Ming's move reminded Bai Shuo and others of Zhuge Liang's Jinlang plan. But now that communications have become so advanced, it's a bit funny if there is anything that can't be explained over the phone. But Mark didn't know these allusions.
He was a little confused, and when Bai Shuo and others laughed at him, he was even more confused.
Mark hurriedly contacted AB Bank before Xiao Ma. According to the principle that Nangong Ming told him to make friends first and then do business, Mark was not in a hurry to negotiate the acquisition of Penguin shares, but repeatedly stated that the company had invested in Africa.
business intention, and expressed his willingness to become a long-term strategic partner with AB Bank. It was not until the end that he mentioned his intention to consider acquiring Penguin shares, but the specific details were not discussed in detail.
Just two days after Mark contacted ab bank, Xiao Ma quickly completed the contact with H Holding Group and came to ab bank. However, Xiao Ma was not confused by Mark's first move. These circumstances confused him and he has been in the business world for many years.
He is well aware of the principle of profit first, and only by coming up with what is most beneficial to AB Bank can he win the final victory.
On this day, Xiao Ma walked into the conference room of ab bank with confidence and met with ab's senior management. Before that, his team had obtained the information that Blue Ocean Capital was preparing to make an acquisition at a premium of 10%, and calculated that Blue Ocean Capital's short-term
The funds that can be used within the bank will not exceed 1 billion, which makes Brother Ma feel even more confident about winning. The negotiating team of AB Bank is the same group of people who contacted Mark. Brother Ma once again expressed his sentiments
"I Have a Dream" speech, this time the recitation seemed more skillful and sophisticated, but at the end he added a long paragraph of criticism of Blue Ocean Capital, and admitted that he had received information that Blue Ocean Capital's current funds are basically
It is not enough to complete the acquisition of the shares in AB Bank, and behind it is a plan to play the trick of a white wolf with nothing. Therefore, the more eager Blue Ocean Capital is to acquire, the more questionable it becomes.
But what Xiao Ma never expected was that after his words, someone from AB Bank told him that someone from Blue Ocean Capital did come to contact him, but the other party did not formally express his intention to acquire Penguin shares.
Even the fact that the other party was prepared to make an acquisition at a premium of 10% was something I just heard from Brother Ma. This made Brother Ma confused. He tried every means to get in front of him and contact the people from AB Bank, but after two days, there was still no one.
Let’s get to the point? What kind of medicine is being sold in this gourd of Blue Ocean Capital?
At this time, someone from AB Bank took the initiative to ask: "Since Mr. Ma is here for Blue Ocean Capital to acquire your company's shares, I wonder if Mr. Ma is also willing to buy back your company's shares?"
This question stopped Xiao Ma. It would be false to say that he had no idea of repurchasing these stocks, but now he has a penny in his hand and wants to break it into two cents for use. How can he have extra funds for counterattack?
Acquisition, and based on the number of shares held by AB Group, even if the acquisition is carried out according to Blue Ocean Capital's 10% premium plan, it will cost almost 7 billion. What he can do now is to try to prevent Blue Ocean Capital's acquisition, and even if it doesn't work, he must find ways to improve the other party.
the cost of.
In the end, in addition to giving a bright vision for the future, Xiao Ma failed to give ab bank any substantive conditions. And ab bank also responded to Xiao Ma very vaguely after some euphemistic remarks.
Brother: Regarding the issue of whether to transfer and sell Penguin shares, AB Bank will consider it based on its own long-term interests.
After learning that Brother Ma had begun to contact AB Bank, Mark couldn't wait to open Nangong Ming's first document. There was only one page in the document bag, which was a letter to Mark. In the letter, Nangong Ming pointed out the following to him.
There is one step to do. In addition, there is a USB flash drive in the file bag. After reading the letter, Mark already knows what is in the USB flash drive.
The next day, Mark came to AB Bank again to formally discuss the acquisition. After this round with Xiao Ma, AB Bank directly asked Mark if he had any plans to acquire Penguin shares. After hesitating for a while, Mark seemed very candid.
Said: "The main purpose of coming this time is to reach a cooperation intention with AB Bank and pave the way for the next development of business in Africa. Secondly, there was indeed the consideration of acquiring Penguin shares..."
"Um... wait, you mean 'originally'? So you are not planning to acquire Penguin's shares or have not yet made a final decision?" The person from AB Bank interrupted Mark and asked a question.
Mark hesitated for a moment, then said sincerely: "Well, yes, that's true..."