Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty Seven Disrupted Plans
At 10 o'clock in the morning the next day, the anxiously waiting media finally got the news. Early this morning before the stock market opened, L Brand submitted an application for the recent changes in the company's equity to the relevant departments of the US stock market.
The equity change document stated that William Devonshire invested US$110 million in L Brand Company to acquire 5% of the company's shares at a valuation of US$2.2 billion, which was US$200 million higher than L Brand's US$2 billion market value three days ago.
As soon as this application was exposed, the market value of L Brand, which had dropped for three days, immediately rose to around US$2 billion that morning. By the time the market closed in the afternoon, the market value had risen to almost US$2.1 billion.
This caused heavy losses to many people who bought the L brand after the market opened at 9 o'clock that day. The outside world was already in a commotion the next day. Many people clamored to report William's illegal operation of controlling stock prices to the US stock market.
However, after receiving the memorandum from the Swiss National Bank that day, the relevant departments of the U.S. stock market kept silent for a few days after the investigation, because the buying and selling of L brand futures contracts was clearly operated by the funds of the Swiss National Bank. Legally and
William has nothing to do with it.
Except for a sum of more than 4 billion U.S. dollars of funds that showed its face to several securities companies, there was no follow-up progress after expressing the intention to acquire the l brand to these securities companies, and this intention was only expressed verbally. William's money
I have never entered the stock market at all.
The Swiss National Bank will help because when the current president, Jon Grace, received a call from William, he heard William say that the profits belong to your bank, and the losses will be compensated elsewhere.
Of course, John Grace would not refuse this kind of business that is sure to make money without losing money. He personally witnessed William making a huge profit in March this year, and he was full of confidence in William's vision.
Sure enough, the outcome was as he expected. In the president's office of the National Bank of Switzerland, John Grace looked at the report in his hand with excitement and said to Felix, William's exclusive account manager: "We made 6,000 in three days.
Ten thousand US dollars? How did you do it? Show me the operation records."
Taking the operation record that Felix had prepared long ago, after reading it, Qiang Grace sat silently on the boss's chair, shook his head and said: "Is your team's sense of market capital changes so accurate? Why does every transaction
The operation is faster than others."
"Sorry, sir, it's not that our team is great, but that Mr. William Devonshire's judgment is too accurate. He can always issue instructions one or two seconds faster than others. This makes all our operations even though they seem extremely risky.
Large, but the actual risk is zero, so,,"
After Felix finished saying his apology, he took the report form from Jon Grace's hand and walked to the shredder. He put the operation records on his hand into the shredder. Soon there were more than a dozen reports.
Finally, I took out the shredded paper and put it into the feed port of the shredder again and shredded it again. I didn't stop until the shredded paper was completely reduced to paper foam.
Turning to Qiang Grace, who was surprised by his actions, he explained, "The server motherboard for this transaction has been destroyed by Mr. Devon Hill's people in front of me. That means I still have some face and use my personality.
After I made the guarantee, I got these dozen operation records to show you.
You should have seen the bodyguards that Mr. Devonshire left in the VIP client room. If it is leaked, I don't know what my ending will be, so I am very sorry, Mr. Grace."
Jon Grace opened his mouth and looked at the smiling Felix. He felt helpless. Jon Gray knew that as the president, he couldn't control Felix now because the bank's salary for Felix was only 24
million Swiss francs,
Since following William, Felix not only bought a manor covering an area of more than 110 acres in Switzerland, but also invested in a luxury resort on Iron Cross Mountain with the ten traders in his group.
I heard that not only did William's bodyguards own shares in that resort, but the total investment amount also exceeded 100 million Swiss francs. The most important thing is that it seems that William told them the idea of this resort with a Chinese style. Although the construction period will take two or three years, they still let Qiang
-Grace feels itchy.
Whoever can make you money these days is the boss, so Jon Grace didn’t mean to be angry at all. He waved his hand, sat back on the boss’s chair, pointed to the chair opposite and said, “It’s okay, sit down, let’s talk.
The resort you invested in?”
"Of course, Mr. Grace." Felix smiled and sat across from Jon Grace. Anyway, there were as many as 22 shareholders in that resort, and he didn't care if one more person made it 23.
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In the past few days while waiting for the investigation, William received a phone call from his mother Lina. The phone call contained only one sentence: The Earl of Oxford was no longer alive. Lina made this call to prepare William. It was best to tell him.
Show the outside world the strength and influence of their team to avoid problems with the succession of the title.
Finally, Lina sternly warned William that if he could not inherit the title that originally belonged to them, she would not forgive William, and even told William not to return to the castle in the future.
This incident disrupted William's original plan. Faced with Lina's repeated warnings, William could only temporarily shelve his plan to secretly acquire the L brand. After promising Lina,
On the one hand, William was thinking about how to reasonably show the strength of Devon Hill to the outside world, and on the other hand, he was waiting for the bargaining between his lawyers and the lawyers of L Brand Company.
Three days later, William and L Brand signed a contract with the participation of the U.S. Regulatory Commission, and William's 5% stake also officially made William an independent director of the company's board of directors.
It's not that he doesn't want more shares, it's that the old chairman of L Brand is bearing the pressure of William to expose their company's scandal. He would rather die than agree to only give William 5% of the shares, and only give William an independent director. This is nothing.
In the position of having the right to speak, the fear is that William will use his financial advantage to turn his back on customers and swallow up the company he built.
For William, these 5% shares are like admission tickets. If you want the shares, can you buy them slowly in the stock market? There is no agreement in the contract he signed with L Brand that prohibits acquisitions in the market.
As long as he enters the board of directors, William can take advantage of the opportunity to contact those directors to quietly acquire or exchange the shares of other companies for the shares of L brand. But now the knighthood matter has disrupted everything, and he can only use the signing of reporters
I will say some nice things first, leave a good impression, and then talk about it after the title matter is over.
The reporters who had just signed the contract and were waiting for interviews heard William sitting on the podium tell them some surprising news before they even opened their mouths.
"The reason for buying a stake in L Brand is because I am optimistic about this company. If the chairman of L Brand hadn't relented, I would have wanted to fully acquire it and leave it to him to manage. Unfortunately, this is impossible.
A company that doesn't let me make the decision means nothing to me, and it really doesn't interest me. Let's talk about something else, and this amount of money is not as much as what I made in two days."