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Chapter 770 No character

"You said."

"In the past few days, the antitrust department of the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating our industry." Bernice said, "We believe that we may be involved in monopoly because we acquired Matlab, Mentor Graphics, and Ansys."

"Think we're involved in monopoly?" Su Chen wondered, "Then which one are we involved in?"

The antitrust law in the United States includes three laws, the most famous of which is the "Sherman Antitrust Act", which is recognized as a milestone in the world's antitrust law, and the other two are the "Federal Trade Commission Act" and the "Clayton Act". ".

According to the U.S. anti-monopoly law, once a company is judged to be suspected of monopoly, it may face various penalties such as fines, imprisonment, compensation, civil sanctions, forced dissolution, and splitting.

There are several well-known cases.

In 1911, the Rockefeller Standard Oil Company was dismembered into 34 independent oil companies.

Since the 80s, the pace of anti-monopoly in the United States has continued to increase.

This move made IBM finally open the standard and cancel product bundling; while AT&T was divided into eight; although Microsoft later avoided the fate of being split through litigation, it was also forced to change the bundled software sales model and pay a huge amount to the EU fine.

At the beginning, Su Chen vowed to establish the strongest legal department on the surface in order to deal with such matters involving lawsuits.

All the barristers who are well-known in the legal field are invited, and they are completely using money to support such a group of talents who are good at exploiting legal loopholes.

"Arguing that we're making an anticompetitive takeover of a potential competitor, our lawyers are fighting back."

Bernice said, "I am also a lawyer myself. According to my assessment of our company, there is no form of monopoly, because we acquire irrelevant companies."

"Neither are they in an absolute dominant position in their field, nor are they the culprit that hinders competition and innovation. Their investigation is just out of thin air, and we will deal with it carefully."

"Okay, if there is any situation, please inform me in time." Su Chen said, "Immediately activate the first-level emergency plan, and let the legal department immediately form a team to cooperate with the company's operations, and you will lead it."

"Understood." Bernice replied.

After hanging up the phone, Su Chen rubbed his temples. If the Americans really stabbed him in the back at this time, it would be a lot of fun.

After all, the anti-monopoly strategy of the United States: In order to maintain market competition and promote technological progress, anti-monopoly must continue to be adhered to.

However, whether to take anti-monopoly measures against a company should be considered from the perspective of global competition rather than domestic market competition, and whether it may ultimately damage the national interests of the United States.

Is it because the bosses of these companies are not American?
After thinking about it, Su Chen thought that this was the only possibility, because those companies hadn't developed into giants, and they were still crossing the river by feeling the stones. It was really unreasonable for the Americans to engage him at this time.

After receiving this news, Su Chen didn't feel sleepy either, so he lit a cigarette in the study.

Right now, there are two possible results. The first is that the above-mentioned companies are split into several companies; the other is that they have to pay huge fines.

Of course, there is a third situation. There is no monopoly in Shengshi, and the other party's investigation is just nonsense.

Su Chen is currently more inclined to the third situation. To be honest, none of his companies have formed a monopoly. If we want to talk about monopoly, the most likely one is lithium batteries.

The cigarette was almost finished, and Zhou Huimin, who was wearing pajamas, came to the study.

"What's the matter? You don't usually smoke, did you encounter any trouble?" She sat beside Teacher Su.

Su Chen simply picked her up and sat on his lap, and said, "It's just some small things, don't worry too much, didn't you sleep soundly just now? Why did you get up like this?"

"I woke up and saw that you weren't here, so I came to the study to look for you." Zhou Huimin said, "Quickly pinch the cigarette, my mouth is full of cigarette smell, I heard from the third sister that the baby hates the smell of cigarettes now."

"I'll take another puff." Su Chen took a puff, extinguished the cigarette butt, and then picked her up, "Shall we go to the second sister's room?"

……

Su Chen has been paying attention to the affairs of the United States for the past few days, thinking that if it is really urgent, he will leave for the United States at any time.

However, good news came from Bernice, saying that the investigation of those people ended without a problem, because Shengshi didn't have any monopoly at all, and they could only return without success.

Su Chen asked her to pay more attention to avoid being investigated by these people again.

The United States can relax for the time being. He is now focusing on Hong Kong. Because of Zhou Jianren's hype, everyone thinks that he really has an affair with those female artists in Shengshi. As a result, reporters are often seen appearing in front of the company. .

There were even reporters squatting around the house.

Why?

Because he is now a hot and rich man, but he is also extremely mysterious, often appearing and disappearing.

Some time ago, there was a lot of noise about female artists, and I didn't see him appearing. I only saw a few faces when mainland actors came to communicate.

In addition, there is no special news in Hong Kong now, so the paparazzi naturally focus on him.

The other most important point is that someone is instigating these reporters behind the scenes.

Of course, this person is not Zhou Jianren, Zhou Jianren is not that boring.

The instigator was Ni Zhen who was reprimanded by Su Chen face to face. To be honest, Su Chen didn't take this person seriously even though his father was Ni Zhen.

But this guy has no character.

Some time ago, I opened a small account to attack Su Chen in various ways. After being counterattacked by Zhou Jianren, I did not change my nature, and opened the small account again to hate people.

And even bribed the reporter to follow Su Chen.

Historically, in 1990, actors Liu Ximing and Zhou Huimin co-operated in the TV series "Wu Jin Xue Jian" and there was a scandal. Immediately afterwards, Liu Ximing publicly expressed his affection for Zhou Huimin in a TV show.

In fact, Zhou Huimin is very fond of Ni Zhen in his heart, but Ni Zhen is not confident about this, coupled with his youthful impulsiveness, he actually called Liu Ximing "Poison Ming" in the entertainment magazine "Yes!" he founded.

He continued to vilify him, Liu Ximing squatted down and tied a shoelace, "Yes!" said he was peeping, peeping, and so on, for as long as 3 years, resulting in Liu Ximing being forced to leave Hong Kong's entertainment industry and develop in Taiwan.

It can be seen how narrow-minded this guy is.

After the inland delegation went back, this guy started writing articles again.

"Mr. Su Chen, chairman of Shengshi Holdings, was very close to the delegation's visit, and even did not hesitate to accompany him as a tour guide. After all, Mr. Su Chen is from the mainland, and this approach is also a respect for the delegation.

But thinking of his life style, people can't help but wonder whether he has plans for Baochai Daiyu and others. It seems that Mr. Su is not only a sniper of the stock market, but also a sniper of beauties. "

"And according to the gossip, in fact, the female artists under Shengshi will take a vehicle every week and secretly go to the headquarters of Shengshi..."

(End of this chapter)