Chapter 947 Negotiations of the American Consortium
The energy of the American consortium is quite powerful. It only took two days to investigate the general forces behind Yingya Investment Company.
Faced with the menacing Anglo-Asian Investment Company, Dampier Worthy, president of Merrill Lynch's Western European affairs, contacted the heads of the three major consortiums of Morgan, Rockefeller, and First Citigroup who were preparing to bargain hunt in England, and met at the London Golf Club.
While Li Guangyu was conducting market inspections in Vienna, several heads of Western European affairs from the American consortium came together.
Although the relationship between several major financial groups is not very friendly, Morgan and Rockefeller, First Citigroup and the California-based financial groups are all in a state of competitive rivalry in the U.S. market.
But externally, this does not prevent them from joining forces to deal with other forces, especially some powerful groups and consortiums.
After several people played golf for a while, Sambotson Smith, President of First Citibank's Western European Affairs, said: "Worsey, just tell me if you have anything to do. I'm afraid you don't have time to play golf with us at this time."
Not only Dampier Worthy has been upset these days, but they are also upset. They were originally very sure about this acquisition, but they didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin came out halfway, making their acquisition full of uncertainty, and they wanted a low price.
Acquiring the company you like has become a mirror image.
When Merrill Lynch accelerated its investigation of the forces behind Yingya Investment Company, these companies were not idle. They also wanted to know what forces were working against them and others.
The news they have received so far is that there are many British nobles holding shares in it, and just yesterday, many British dukes, marquises and earls collectively entered Buckingham Palace, which had to make them wary.
Although the British royal family and nobles do not have much power now, they have great influence on the British people, especially the Queen of England. If she supports these nobles to acquire these properties, I am afraid they will not have any chance.
At this time, the U.S. government will not suppress the British for their sake. The enemy of the United States is still the Soviet Union. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, except for the members of the Warsaw Pact, any country will be the target of the United States' efforts to win over. At this time, the U.S. government
He would not do anything to destroy the city wall.
Now they haven't come up with a good solution. Even the acquisition negotiations have stopped today. They know that the activities of the British nobles have played a role. If they don't come up with a solution as soon as possible, I'm afraid they will
This time I am really going to fail.
Dampier Worthy also put down the club in his hand and said to the caddies and service staff on the side: "We don't need service for the time being. I hope you can give us a quiet space."
After these unrelated people had gone away, he said: "Yingya Company must have become a thorn in everyone's throat now. I wonder what everyone thinks of this company?"
The person in charge of Western Europe of the Rockefeller Foundation said: "Worsey, the British Asia Company is backed by the major British nobles, and even the royal family's assets are not excluded. I think everyone is very aware of the influence of these people. We have to compete with them this time. The pressure is
It will be relatively large. After all, this is England, and even if we have strong financial resources, it won't have much effect."
When Dampier Worthy saw that Rockefeller actually thought that his opponents were just British aristocrats, he felt sad for their intelligence capabilities. He even suspected that the people in charge of the two major financial groups, Rockefeller and First Citigroup, did not pay enough attention here.
Investigate the situation inside.
Citigroup One originally belonged to the Rockefeller and Stillman families, and a lot of information was shared between them.
He directly asked the head of Morgan Western Europe: "Charles, I wonder what you think of Yingya Investment Company?"
As the head of the Morgan Financial Group in Western Europe and the British CEO of Morgan Bank, Cross Charles has also asked the following people to investigate the situation of Yingya Investment Company in the past few days.
It's just that the results of the investigation are not ideal. The president of this company is currently related to the Duke of Westminster. The leaders of the external acquisition team are also British. It is understood that these people are also the elites of companies owned by some nobles.
It seemed that this company was indeed a company founded by these nobles, but he didn't quite believe that the lonely nobles in England would have such huge financial resources and courage to take over so many companies.
Now he is still asking his staff to continue investigating the situation of Yingya Investment Company to see if there are any other forces inside.
He had also considered that the Li Consortium might be involved, but the senior management of the Li Consortium had returned to Xiangjiang, and even Li Guangyu had left England. He felt that the Li Consortium had little hope in this, otherwise with Li Guangyu's strength
, how could you not let your own personnel take responsibility?
Cross Charles responded: "Worsey, we don't know much about New Asia Investment Company at present. I wonder if you have any news here?"
Rockefeller and the heads of First Citi also looked at Dampier Worthy, waiting for his answer. When Worthy invited them to come this time, he must know some specific situations within Yingya, and his power must not be small, otherwise
I won’t contact them anymore,
Dampier Worthy said: "After I learned about the crazy behavior of Yingya Investment Company, I specially investigated it. At the same time, I also invited Merrill Lynch headquarters and branches in Hong Kong and Tokyo to assist us. I really discovered this.
Got some news."
"Worsey, I hear what you mean, this time the British Asia Investment Company, some regional forces in Asia, and even our domestic forces are involved in this." Sambotson Smith said.
"We haven't been there in China, but it's more interesting in Asia. You know that Li Guangyu left London on a chartered flight. The original news was to send the senior executives of the Li Group back to Xiangjiang. But this special plane not only landed in Xiangjiang, but also left London.
I visited Tokyo and Seoul before returning to London."
These are all elites. There are many problems here. The senior officials who accompanied Li Guangyu to Western Europe are all from Xiangjiang. When returning to Xiangjiang this time, they should not continue flying to Tokyo and Seoul before returning to London.
Cross Charles asked: "Worsey, don't you know those distinguished guests have landed in these three places? This time they came quietly and left quietly. They did it very secretly."
“We at Merrill Lynch conducted in-depth investigations in various places, and through some connections, we got the list of where Li Guangyu’s special plane dropped off passengers at various airports.
In addition to the senior executives of the Li Group in Xiangjiang, there are also Zheng Yutong, Li Guobao and He Youguang.
On the Japanese side, there are Sumitomo Kirei, Mitsui Nagao, Iwasaki Rifumi, Fujiwara Sango and others, while at Seoul Airport there are Jung Ju-young, Lee Kun-hee, Kim Woo-jung and others.
And just two days before they left London, many British aristocrats went to the Regal Hotel owned by the Lee Group. I have reason to believe that this New Asia Investment Company was established by several Asian consortiums and British aristocrats in order to be able to
Eat all these companies so we don’t even have to think about them.”
These few people also know why Dampier Worthy contacted them and others. Although the California consortium is powerful, facing the alliance of many Asian consortiums, they are no match at all.
If these American consortiums go it alone, they will really lose everything this time.
Sambotson Smith said: "Worsey, I don't know what your plan is. You must know that this time it is in England, and the other party is also cooperating with many nobles in England. Not only can we not rely on policy support to cooperate with the Japanese consortium like the American market,
When the Li consortium competes, we must be wary of the other party relying on policies to target us."
In the past two years, they have been competing comprehensively with the Japanese consortium in the American market. If it were not for the support of the government, many of their companies would have gone bankrupt and liquidated. However, in the British market, they and others do not have an advantage.