The White Knight Plan is a hidden defense method, a bit similar to laying landmines. Concealment and suddenness are the most critical factors for the success of this plan.
Therefore, once the identity of the white knight is discovered by the opponent or is strictly guarded, the white knight plan will lose most of its effectiveness.
In the same way, if the White Knight plan is activated, no matter what the outcome is, the White Knight has been exposed, his identity has changed from dark to bright, and he will no longer be a White Knight in the future.
To sum up, white knights can only be found outside the business scope of listed companies. Closely related companies become direct or indirect holdings, not white knights.
The white knight also has another characteristic, that is, he is rich, or very rich, and has plenty of spare money.
Listed companies that adopt white knight plans are generally large or extra-large enterprises, and a few points of shares will require an investment of at least tens of millions of dollars.
This kind of investment is a pitfall most of the time. The return on investment is not too high, the holding period is not too short, and it has little to do with the investor's main business.
Therefore, even at the beginning, except for those companies or individuals with the characteristics of wealthy and idle people, there were really not many people who could meet this condition.
Now, with the development of the global economy, the development space of enterprises is getting wider and wider. The vast majority of enterprises not only invest their profits in expanding reproduction or investment, but also engage in debt operations in order to pursue greater profits. Therefore,
Not many people are willing to spend tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of their own capital to be white knights.
Therefore, in today's society, white knights and white knight plans have almost disappeared. Students majoring in finance can only understand this concept from past classic cases. As Europe exports its own culture, this concept
Gradually it was artificially exalted and regarded as a model of loyalty and contract spirit.
In fact, in economic society, where can there be love for no reason?
Sun Dahai was still wondering in his heart. He and Richard were strangers, and there was no way they could get along with the Leon Group or the Bank of Gaul. Why did Richard just open his mouth and ask for hundreds of millions of dollars to help him?
Is he acting as a white knight just because he has a big face?
After Richard's explanation, Sun Dahai finally understood that all the nonsense about chivalry and morality had been trumped up by others. It turned out that behind the glamor was a naked exchange of interests.
Yes, Richard directly offered Sun Dahai a bargaining chip, which was divided into two parts: public and private.
For the public, Bank of Gaul (Leon Group) will use its own strength to help Bank Skoll improve its position in the industry.
Bank of Gaul will form a strategic partnership with Bank Skoll, and will promote candidates proposed by Sun Dahai to enter the Swiss Federal Banking Commission and the Swiss Bankers Association, and obtain real management positions.
Personally, Richard heard from Wei Xinyu that Sun Dahai was planning to buy land in Hong Kong and build his own house. So he helped him contact a large villa on Shek O Road, including the house and land, for a price of 88 million Hong Kong dollars.
Sold to Sun Dahai.
It is not surprising that Richard could find out that Sun Dahai is the actual major shareholder of Skoll Bank. Europe is the base of Leon Group, and if they are willing, they can receive such news in minutes.
The Bank of Gaul is a leader in the European banking industry, with a business network covering the entire Europe. Although it is not within the Swiss banking system, its influence on the Swiss banking industry is all-round.
Therefore, the plan proposed by Richard is very feasible and will be of great help to the future development of Skoll Bank.
As for the benefits Richard offered Sun Dahai privately, it hit Sun Dahai’s G-spot.
It is no secret among his private circle that Sun Dahai wants to buy a larger piece of land and build a house for himself in a suitable place in Xiangjiang.
Sun Dahai has also seen all the land available for sale in the homes of the second son of the Huo family and Li Jiajie. Most of the land they have reserved is commercial land located in prosperous areas.
A few pieces of land that could be converted into private residences were not very satisfactory to Sun Dahai, so the matter has never been resolved.
Sun Dahai has already bought the two villas provided by Zhou Tao. The house is located on Baijia Road in Taipingshan. As a residence, the surrounding environment is no problem.
But Sun Dahai felt that both houses were too small, with each covering an area of only about 500 square meters. They were too compact.
Merging the two pieces of land is also troublesome. Although the two pieces of land are connected together, they originally belonged to the same land. However, after the two owners continued to renovate it for such a long time, the height difference between the two pieces of land was not small and is now even greater.
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Since the two pieces of land combined only covered an area of 1,000 square meters and were divided into upper and lower parts, Sun Dahai was not interested in it.
Due to terrain reasons, these two pieces of land are surrounded by small villas with not very large area. Sun Dahai specially asked someone to find out. The land around this area was put on sale decades ago, and most of the early owners were those who lived in those years.
Britten Enterprises developed in Hong Kong.
Decades have passed, but not many land here has been transferred. Nowadays, the houses are either owner-occupied and are not considered for transfer, or they are offered at sky-high prices, making it clear that they do not want to sell the land and will use other conditions to exchange for it.
Sun Dahai prefers large houses, so he is too lazy to argue with the owners. These two rare pieces of land are only considered by Sun Dahai as alternatives, and he is going to look for other opportunities first. Anyway, it is now a long time before he can live in Xiangjiang for a long time.
, there are still two years to go.
However, the piece of land that Richard now proposed made Sun Dahai really moved. As a reborn person, Sun Dahai guessed the purpose of this piece of land after hearing a few brief introductions from Richard.
This is the land where the famous "Super Log House" was built in the previous life. The original owner of this land was a wealthy French businessman who built a sea-view villa here to live in.
After the death of the wealthy businessman, it was idle for many years. In 1994, it was sold to "Star TV" at a high price. Li Zekai, the "Little Superman" who made his first pot of gold in life, bought it for 120 million Hong Kong dollars and demolished and rebuilt it two years later, which took eight years.
In 2007, he spent HK$200 million to build a "red and rich wooden house" made of American redwood as the main material. It was also called "super wooden house" and "redwood house" by the outside world.
The land where the "Super Wooden House" is located is very large, with an effective area of nearly nine acres. Its location is also excellent. It is located at the end of the mountain road on Yunzhen Mountain in Shek O. It faces east and north, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and has an unparalleled sea view of Dalang Bay.
All in sight.
After the "Super Wooden House" is completed, the building will occupy an area of 2,100 square meters, with an outdoor area of 3,700 square meters, including a private outdoor swimming pool, where you can enjoy the sea view while playing in the water.