Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 53 Kawamoto Expressway Investor Dinner: Niwa Marina

"Your invitation qualification has been disqualified." A security guard in a white uniform said to the woman in a black suit jacket and trousers in front of him.The security guard's expression was a little nervous, and he pressed his hand on the walkie-talkie, as if he was a little afraid that the female reporter in front of him would react excessively after hearing the notification.

After all, reporters are always troublesome.

Niwa Marina just nodded lightly, with an indifferent expression on her face, but she didn't feel any disturbance in her heart for the sudden rejection.She has been through this scene too many times.I have already become a "stab" in the eyes of many people, so it is not surprising that I was cancelled.

Niwa knew that most of the reporters who had the opportunity to ask questions during the media exchange session at today's dinner had already been arranged.Therefore, even if she obediently raises her hand to ask questions during the communication session of the dinner, most of the results will not get the opportunity to ask questions. It is better to seize the reception session before the dinner and directly ask Kotaro Kawamoto to ask questions.

Of course, the result of doing so was that his invitation letter was cancelled.

However, if during the communication session of the dinner, you can only sit and raise your hand without receiving a response, this situation is actually no different from the cancellation of the invitation letter.

Thinking of this, Niwa smiled bitterly unconsciously.

The promenade above the hotel was still crowded with people. At several rectangular tables, those who came to the Kawamoto Highway Dinner Party were chatting lively, and the waiters were constantly shuttling through the crowd to serve the distinguished guests in need.The exquisite chandeliers on the long corridor, the tempting pastries on the square table, and those people in expensive clothes form a lively reception picture.

And in this atmosphere, no one noticed the security guard and the female reporter in the corner of the corridor.

"Please leave the venue." Although the security guard saw that Niwa seemed to accept it calmly, he was still a little worried, holding the walkie-talkie in his hand and not putting it down.

Niwa nodded lightly, then turned around and walked towards the door of the hotel.

She had to find another breakthrough, she thought.

Walking on the aisle of the hotel, Niwa sighed slightly, suddenly feeling a little tired.

She is a Master of Journalism and Communication at Waseda University.Journalism and communication at Waseda University can be said to be the earliest journalism major in Eastern history.When I finished my undergraduate study and entered the postgraduate stage, I followed an old-fashioned old professor.I still remember that on the first day in the research room, the old professor did not start teaching, but asked the students in the research room to recite the "Declaration of the International Federation of Journalists on the Code of Conduct for Journalists".

To this day, Niwa still remembers the first clause of this manifesto.

【Respecting the truth and the public's right to know the truth are the primary duties of journalists. 】

Think about how I went to Radio Tokyo after graduating, and was suspended for publishing the Tokyo Bay factory pollution incident. In the end, I could only go to a private weekly tabloid. Although I continued to write in-depth investigative reports, I was constantly threatened and intimidated. Even rented houses can only be changed again and again.

The so-called pursuit of truth...

The so-called respect for truth...

What do these things mean to me?
What's the point of your persistence?

When Niwa walked to the door of the hotel, he suddenly felt a little confused, but habitually took out the small palm-sized notebook with his right hand, and glanced at the contents on it.

The densely packed writing on the notebook is all information about Kawamoto Expressway, like a group of ants crawling on the notebook.Niwa has spent a lot of time sorting out many of the above key materials in the past few months.

There is a reason why I set my sights on Kawamoto Expressway.

Kawamoto Expressway's aggressive expansion has drawn its own attention.

The expressway construction cycle is long. Although the cash flow is stable after completion, the payment is relatively slow.Adopting an aggressive expansion strategy is not a sound measure in the highway industry.

For example, the construction period of a highway is 4 years.If the expressway is mainly built with bank loans, then in the past four years, for the expressway company, this highway has always caused negative expenditures on the company's cash flow, because it has to repay the loan.

If a large company aggressively builds multiple highways through this debt method, it will undoubtedly put enormous pressure on the company's cash flow.

However, Kawamoto Expressway not only survived, but even under the aggressive expansion, the return on assets still stood firm, without the slightest influence of the expansion strategy.

This is not in line with common sense.

Let's imagine.Now you have a bakery, you invest 10 and earn 1.Your return on assets is 10%.Now you have invested another 10 in a bakery.But the bakery has not yet opened and is not making any money.At this point, your total investment becomes 20, but the profit is still only 1.

Your return on assets becomes 5%.

Therefore, under the aggressive expansion strategy, Kawamoto Expressway should also experience a decline in the return on assets.However, the reality is: Kawamoto Expressway has not experienced a decline in the rate of return.

As if by some sort of magical alchemy, the company was pumping cash out of nowhere.

And Niwa just wanted to find this place.

She judged by experience that there must be ghosts in it.

Where exactly is the Kawamoto Expressway, and the cash was conjured up like magic.

At this moment, a taxi suddenly stopped at the gate of the hotel. With a "bang", the door of the taxi was quickly opened.On the car seat, sat a woman wearing an office skirt. She looked very anxious, as if she had something urgent to report.

After hastily paying the taxi fare, the woman got out of the car immediately, seemingly holding a piece of A4 paper in her hand, and trotted immediately, regardless of the high heels she was wearing on her lap.

Niwa was thinking about the Kawamoto Expressway, and walked forward with his head down, not noticing that his route overlapped with the rushing lady in front.

With a "bang", the woman in the taxi collided with Niwa heavily. When they collided, the woman let out a scream, and the high heels on her feet tilted, which immediately couldn't support her whole body balance. He fell back and fell heavily on the hotel floor.

The A4 paper she held in her hand immediately dropped, floated in the air, and slowly fell to the ground.

"Oh." The woman who fell on the ground supported her waist.

Niwa also lost her balance when she was hit suddenly, but her heels were not high, so when she lost her balance and fell to the ground, she immediately supported the ground with her hands.

"Sorry." Niwa said, and immediately reached out to pick up the A4 paper that the woman dropped on the ground.Out of professional habits, Niwa glanced at the content on the paper.

But I saw that on the A4 paper, there were five big characters "Civil Complaint" written on it.

Immediately following the plaintiff column, it says a man named Terai Teru.

As the eyes moved down, the defendant's column showed the name of a company.

And the name of that company is... Kawamoto Expressway Co., Ltd., legal representative: Kawamoto Kotaro.

This thin A4 paper hit Niwa's heart instantly.When Niwa saw the defendant's information above, he was shocked.This... This turned out to be a complaint against Kawamoto Expressway.

This is a great opportunity.

Niwa didn't expect such a coincidence that she ran into a person at the hotel door, and she actually held a complaint against the Kawamoto Expressway.

Niwa immediately seized the opportunity, and his eyes quickly moved across the A4 paper.In less than a few tens of seconds, she has quickly read the content of a civil complaint.

However, the moment he finished reading the content, Niwa was stunned.

The content of this civil complaint is that a driver who had an accident on the expressway sued Chuanben Expressway for failing to clean up obstacles on the road in time, neglecting to perform maintenance responsibilities, and demanding compensation for losses.

【Maintenance Responsibility】

The moment I saw these four words, the darkness was dispelled like a spark.

The river channel that had been silted up for a long time was pumped out in an instant.

At this moment, Niwa felt that his long-blocked thoughts seemed to be opened up in an instant.The moment I saw these four words, I suddenly realized what is the mysterious alchemy of Kawamoto Highway that I have been looking for.

Why did the rate of return on assets not drop when Kawamoto Expressway was expanding substantially?

This mysterious alchemy is upkeep payouts! ! ! !
Among the total expenditures of expressway companies, two items account for the bulk - bank loan repayment expenditures and road maintenance expenditures.

Since the loan repayment expenditure has not been compressed, it must be the road maintenance expenditure that has been compressed! !

Chuanben Expressway must withstand the pressure of declining return on assets by compressing maintenance expenditures.

It's all over, it's all over!

Niwa reacted instantly.Although the specific facts have yet to be verified, Niwa believes that it must be close.Kawamoto Expressway's alchemy secret is maintenance expenditure!
Then she glanced at the indictment again.

The indictment does not state who the plaintiff's attorney is.However, Niwa was already faintly shocked in his heart.This lawyer is very creative and imaginative.The breakthrough point chosen in traffic accidents is neither the insurance company nor another perpetrator, but the owner of the road.During his working as a reporter, Niwa also met many lawyers.For some reason, she had an intuition that Terai's plaintiff's lawyer was absolutely extraordinary.

This lawyer really wants to meet, Niwa sighed slightly inwardly.

With a "snap", the woman who fell on the ground pulled out the indictment from Niwa's hand.

"Thank you, pick it up." The woman who fell down nodded slightly to Niwa, and stood up, ignoring that the clothes on her body were still messy and not tidy, and immediately ran towards the banquet hall.

Niwa stood where he was, looked back at the reception scene at the end of the hotel corridor, and smiled slightly.

In today's banquet session, I had to find an excuse to get in again.

(End of this chapter)