Almighty painter

Chapter 246 Who is Detective Cat TMD?

Anna just walked over one by one, reaching out to shake hands with every shareholder of the magazine.

"Uh... Anyway, I still want to thank your family for their contribution to the development of "Oil Painting" magazine..."

Some experts showed embarrassment on their faces.

But shopping malls are like battlefields.

The reaction of more shareholders at this time cannot be called a gentleman.

Their faces were cold, and they even spoke sarcastically, and what they said was very unpleasant.

"It's useless to flatter me, I will not change my decision to support the chairman."

"Little girl is not sensible, Miss Irina, don't blame me for speaking badly, if your aunt still acts as the agent for your board seat, you will definitely make a more shrewd decision than a young man like you who doesn't know how to adapt... ..."

"..."

After hearing a few words of ridicule from those people, the secretary Elliott's face turned blue with anger, and Anna still didn't hear it.

No matter how harsh the sneer on the shareholder's face is.

She greeted everyone very politely and praised each other's academic achievements one by one.

Even the attorney in the corner, Anna, asked the other party to convey her greetings to Mr. Signac for herself.

"It's a bit late to make a relationship now. At this age, the little girl's family can go to school for a few more years. She has a lot of social experience. Being locked up in an ivory tower all day is not good for you."

The fat old man Khelaifi simply turned his head away in a clear-cut manner.

He folded his arms and completely ignored Anna's outstretched hand.

At this point in time, I still want to play the emotional card.

Do you mean she is innocent?

Or is she stupid?

Ask for it!

"Idiots! These Yankees are just uneducated."

Sir Brown looked at the scene in front of him, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he cursed secretly in his heart.

These old guys who sit in the office all day doing research, many of them are not as good as a little girl in terms of emotional intelligence.

After the initial astonishment.

Jazz had now figured out why Anna insisted on putting such a hot face on her cold ass.

They didn't do it for these people to see, and they didn't try to change the results of shareholders' votes with just a few greetings.

Miss Irene's self-sacrificing appearance is just a show for all readers of "Oil Painting"!
"Among other things, she's really smart. Has the air of a lady statesman."

As far as the operation of a media is concerned, the public image is really important.

It's really disrespectful for a bunch of old men to make things difficult for a beautiful and polite little girl.

Brown’s idea of ​​sending meeting minutes to every reader of “Oil Painting” magazine, even in addition to arranging a clerk, there are also audio and video recordings of the whole process as a bonus, which has only two purposes.

Bind all shareholders to their warships.

As well as separating the Elena family from the magazine, and even separating the young girl Anna from the contributions made by the entire Elena family in the past.

The vote on whether to approve Kruger Bank's stake is just one item in the meeting log.

What else is on the agenda, such as dereliction of duty, expressions that damage the magazine's public image in online video interviews, and the removal of Ms. Irina's seat on the board of directors on the grounds that she is not competent enough for a management position? waiting.

Sir Brown has prepared a lot of things, which are used to prove in the eyes of the public that the current Irina family is no longer suitable to rule this magazine.

And a young girl like Anna is not worthy to be equated with the contribution of her elders.

This is just great.

Everyone who was originally well united against the power of the Elena family and fought for the main theme of the magazine's independence.

The scene in front of me was watched by the public.

It must be more like a lot of old men working together to bully a little girl who I feel sorry for.

So ugly!

Sir Brown dug a hole for Anna.

As a result, she immediately began to project her vulnerable side in the public eye to gain sympathy.

Find the loopholes.

Counter quickly.

What kind of weak girl is this?

She is clearly a strong woman with great adaptability!
"Ahem, Ms. Elena, please return to your seat. Personally, I am grateful for your affirmation of my academic achievements. As far as the chairman of the magazine is concerned, I have the obligation to lead this A media with a long history is on the right track."

Sir Brown could only slightly consider his wording: "As Khelaife's shareholders just said, this is not a personal grievance. We just hope to make "Oil Painting" better."

"Is it better to make art magazines more commercialized and speculative?"

The girl looked sideways at the camera in the meeting room.

"I prefer to call it making the magazine younger and in line with modern trends. And, I repeat, this is not the occasion to discuss this matter."

The chairman interrupted Anna's speech impatiently: "The important thing now is to vote whether to agree to introduce the major shareholder of Kruger Brothers Bank. Director Jelena, you have the right to vote against it. At the same time, we also have the right to suspend The Elena family continues to rule in one word."

"If it's really a word of speech, where will there be such an acquisition vote? Under the new shareholding structure, the combined shares represented by Kruger Bank and Chairman Brown alone exceed 60.00 of the total shares. %. On the contrary, that’s the real one.”

Anna turned her head to face the shareholders in front of her.

"Gentlemen, many of you are invited by my elders to join the "Oil Painting" magazine. Your academic achievements are equivalent to yours. You are my personal predecessors and teachers."

"My elders trust you, and I respect you."

"At this moment, the 136-year history and fate of the "Paintings" magazine is in your hands. I don't want to say that the ancestors of the Elena family are watching this place from heaven. As a respected Scholars, what is the real soul of this magazine, I believe that the predecessors know better than me. Do we really want to abandon our persistence for many years for the sake of short-term financial interests?"

Anna put her hands on her knees, and bowed deeply to the shareholder next to the table.

"I beg all the elders, please help me."

"Don't be pitiful here, moral kidnapping..." Khelaifei curled his lips.

Anna shook her head: "If you really don't want to continue to hold some of the shares of "Oil Painting" magazine, I am listing two ranches in Australia and North America under my name, plus all my assets that can be realized in the short term. About 1 million to 2000 million euros in cash flow can be raised within two months. You can consider selling your shares to me.”

"I know that there is still a funding gap of tens of millions of euros between this and the acquisition proposed by Kruger Bank, but this is already more than a hundred times the price you bought the shares from my aunt."

When the elders of the Yi Lianna family sold more than half of the shares in the magazine, they had considered the possibility that outsiders would occupy the magpie's nest.

Under the same quotation,

Anna holds the first right of refusal on the shares.

But they could not have imagined that after several decades, with the continuous expansion of the scale of "Oil Painting", the valuation of "Oil Painting" magazine has soared from a magazine worth millions of Austrian crowns to hundreds of millions of euros.

Miss Elena really can't afford so much money.

She may be one of the richest landlady in Austria, and in terms of pure amount, she is richer than the Kruger family.

But financial markets are different from individual behavior.

Bankers and landlady wives are also different.

Mr. Kruger holds the oldest private bank in Europe and various private equity funds in his hands. He can easily use the large cash flow of more than billions of euros to forcibly acquire the companies he wants.

And even among the billionaires on the Forbes list, there are not many who can casually spend hundreds of millions of euros.

Simultaneously.

This thing happened too suddenly.

Even with the dilution of various inheritance taxes, the total assets of the Elena family that passed to Anna should definitely exceed 1 million euros.

Perhaps more than 5 million euros.

However, if real estate is to be sold in the short term, it is difficult even at a large discount. It also involves a series of issues such as tax calculation and cross-border fund transfers.

Ana can only raise so much money.

"The Bible says, 'If there were ten righteous men in that land, the city of Sodom would not perish'. Today, as long as there are any two or three seniors who are willing to uphold the faith in their hearts and stand behind me. Then " The belief at the beginning of the birth of Oil Painting magazine—let every beautiful artwork speak for itself, and let every beautiful soul have a voice will never be extinguished.”

"I, Anna Jelena, a member of the Board of Directors of Oil Painting magazine, voted to reject the proposed acquisition of the magazine by the Kruger Brothers Bank."

Miss Irina could no longer see any softness in her body.

With a look of determination in her eyes, she raised her left hand high.

As the girl's voice fell to the ground.

The meeting room became quiet and needles could be heard, only the wind from the window became clearer.

Not a single person spoke.

Many people were stunned before Miss Anna's eloquent speech.

"A truly persistent hero, even if the wax wings on his body are destined to be melted by the sun, he will fly to the distance without hesitation like Icarus."

Chairman Brown looked at Anna.

Inexplicably, the old jazz thought of a sentence praising the hero Icarus in Nietzsche's essay collection that he had read in college.

Icarus is the son of Didalus, the great inventor in ancient Greek myths and legends. With a dream of flying in his heart, he flew to the sky with wings made of wax, but eventually fell to his death because the wax was roasted by the sun.

Sir Brown, the ambitious banker who personally led and manipulated the acquisition plan, was also moved by the persistent belief that flashed across Miss Irina's face at this moment.

What a fine girl.

"Shouldn't it be said that she is a girl raised by a noble family?"

There are a lot of rich second generations in the world.

The decisiveness and calmness in handling things like this are not comparable to ordinary nouveau riche.

Whether it is morality or money, Anna is within her own ability and has given a solution that is tempting enough.

If it were Sir Brown, he would not be able to do better than the girl in front of him at this time.

From the standpoint of an elder, Sir Brown almost wanted to applaud Anna's wonderful speech.

From the bottom of his heart, he envied and admired that Aunt Anna, who had passed away, could teach his girls so well.

Stand in the enemy's shoes.

The silver-haired gentleman glanced at those shareholders with hesitation and entanglement on their faces, but no one really raised their hands to respond in the end.

He shook his head and sneered.

"Even if she is really Icarus, it is only an effort that is bound to fail."

One second, two seconds... ten seconds passed... half a minute passed.

Except Ana raised her arm.

There was no second shareholder to chime in.

One vote against and twelve votes in favour.

On March 2023, 3, at 19:9 a.m. Vienna time, the proposal of the Kruger Brothers Bank to acquire the magazine "Oil Painting" was approved!

This is the top three acquisitions of a single independent magazine in this century.

Everyone in the venue felt like they were writing history.

Everyone clearly understood that the Elena family's dominance of the magazine for a century had officially come to an end at this moment.

Now is a new era for the mighty Kruger Bank.

When the voting results were spoken from Sir Brown, who presided over the meeting.

The female secretary Elliot couldn't bear to look at the expression on the young lady's face, so she deliberately turned her head to look at the floating curtain by the window.

Anna didn't actually show any emotional expression on her face.

Everyone knows that she must be suffering in her heart right now.

But there was no hysterical crying.

She just pursed her lips and signed her name on the shareholder resolution with a pen stroke by stroke, turning into a silent ice sculpture.

On the contrary, many people think that this young girl is so strong that it makes people heartbreak.

"Tch, what am I supposed to do. It seems that someone's speech is not as useful as she imagined. A few minutes of speech can change everything. What does she think of herself as, Kennedy or Mustache?"

Khelaife is more hard-hearted.

He is also one of the few shareholders who can get the most benefit from the acquisition.

At a certain moment just now, he was really afraid that the soft-eared guys around him would be moved by Miss Anna.

Now that the overall situation is settled, a huge stone has landed in the fat old man's heart.

"It seems that the surname Elena is not worth tens of millions of euros in real money like Miss Anna imagined..."

"Okay, shareholders of Khelaife, you should stop in moderation."

Khelaifi originally planned to say a few more harsh words of sarcasm, but was interrupted by his own people around him.

"I'm sorry, Anna."

Sakurai Rikiya silently signed his name in the column of agreeing to the proposal.

Then he looked up into the girl's eyes, "The Elena family is very great, but it's really not just a matter of tens of millions of euros. Your philosophy is respectable, but it is no longer suitable for this era."

Choosing the Elena family or Crook Bank is not a matter of valuation at all.

Essentially, you are choosing different game rules to play.

Whether to continue to stand on the shore of the sea of ​​money and be a lonely bystander, or to be determined to be a member of the poker table game - this is a political choice.

Kruger Bank's shareholding is only the first sail on the mast of "Oil Painting" magazine's huge plan to sail to the Golden Sea.

The next step is to drastically strengthen the in-depth cooperation with the head gallery, and establish the first art fund named after the "Oil Painting" magazine, a series of complicated financial operations.

Its economic value will also be blown up by the "hot money" in the investment market like an inflated hot air balloon in the continuous deepening of commercial transformation.

Everyone present will be the beneficiary of its take-off process.

The world's ultra-high-net-worth households hold about 2.34 trillion US dollars in art collections, which is between the total GDP of France and Russia in the five permanent members.

There are art funds with a scale of more than one billion US dollars everywhere in Europe and the United States.

There is no reason why the "Oil Painting" Fund cannot become the next wealth myth.

As Professor Rikiya Sakurai said.

It's not that everyone doesn't want to give the Elena family face, but it's really not the difference between tens of millions of euros.

To say something more realistic and cruel.

Uncle Osborne's letter can be full of sympathy, because he is not a shareholder of "Oil Painting" magazine, so he can naturally speak while standing without back pain.

If he was in the position of these shareholders, it would be difficult to make a different choice.

At today's shareholders' meeting, so many shareholders are on the opposite side of Miss Anna. Even if there is no Kruger Brothers Bank, the next investment institution will replace it.

All Miss Elena's efforts are Sisyphus pushing stones.

The ending has already been written.

"All right."

Sir Brown picked up the teacup with a smile, scraped the side of the cup with the bone china tea lid, took a sip of the tea and said with a smile: "Then proceed to the next issue, the removal of Anna Elena's seat on the board of directors."
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The shareholder meeting lasted until noon.

Except for Sir Brown's original proposal, there has never been a scene where all shareholders can reach a consensus on any of the meeting topics.

No dramatic ups and downs.

Twelve shareholders were in favor and one was against, with the same result on each issue.

make a proposal,

A show of hands voted to overrule Ms Irina's negative vote.

Shareholders sign off on a new resolution.

It's like a film film with a projector stuck BUG, ​​repeating the cycle over and over again.

Even so, because of the huge acquisition plan and share changes involving hundreds of millions of euros, the meeting lasted for several hours before it came to an end.

"Gentlemen, a cold work meal has been delivered by the magazine staff. However, I think it's better to take care of this last item and let's go out for a meal together. Maybe open a bottle of champagne, I know a good one nearby Italian restaurant, where I still have an unfinished bottle of 2003 Romanee-Conti.”

Sir Brown turned to the last page of the agenda in his hand.

"The next issue, the initiator of the proposal is Director Anna Irina. Sorry, it may be more appropriate to say that it is Anna Irina's shareholder."

The chairman smiled.

Although the voting results were not much different from expectations, today's shareholder meeting still did not 100% meet Sir Brown's expectations.

The current law does not require directors to make mistakes. As long as the shareholders' meeting can reach a consensus on the majority of shares, any director on the board of directors can be removed.

That's how Jobs got kicked out of Apple.

Sir Brown nevertheless compiled a very elaborate list of what he believed to be "mistakes young Lady Irene made in the course of her duties as a director".

It turned out that this would be a good opportunity for one of the crowd to attack Anna.

It's not easy to pick someone's fault with a magnifying glass.

However, it is probably Anna's previous declaration that caused some shareholders to feel guilty.

Regardless of Sir Brown's winks, the enthusiasm of everyone's discussion was not high.

Except for Khelaifi's echo, the entire fault finding process is over.

"never mind."

The tide has come,

Sir Brown wasn't too bothered.

Next month's European Art Annual Conference will be a bigger public stage. Anyway, the joint speech he prepared is quite "wonderful".

His gaze fell back to the last page of the meeting agenda.

Seeing the name "Detective Cat", Brown frowned.

Before this shareholder meeting.

Anna only submitted the only proposal, which he thought would be about a reverse acquisition of shares.

The law stipulates that when any company undergoes restructuring, major mergers and acquisitions, commercial investment, etc., shareholders who vote against it can execute the exit clause.

It is required that the entire board of directors must purchase all the shares owned by the shareholder at a reasonable price.

It can be regarded as giving the losers of high-level struggles a room for a decent exit.

When Jobs was expelled from Apple's board of directors, he sold all his Apple shares, leaving only a commemorative share, and with this money he founded the famous Pixar animation studio.

The chairman thought that Anna should ask to implement this clause.

He discussed with Mr. Kruger that he is willing to make an additional investment and absorb all the stocks held by Miss Irina at a price of no more than 4000 million euros.

Not too much, not too little.

Miss Irene will probably sell it.

Major shareholders who have been expelled from the board of directors can easily become lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and their property will be embezzled by various slapstick operations.

Sir Brown also wanted to spend money and save trouble.

Anna is not as weak and deceitful as she looks.

Come on, they also have their own legal team, with such a large shareholding in their hands, they are floating outside, and they will find all kinds of excuses for you to frantically report to the financial supervision department.

The actual effect may not be great, but it is really disgusting.

Unexpectedly, Anna did not mention relevant conditions from the beginning to the end.

"Could it be that this little girl still has unrealistic fantasies about her ownership of this magazine?"

The issue is,
A major shareholder who was voted away from even a seat on the board of directors.

If she has such a heart, what kind of demon can she do?
This shareholders' meeting, the only proposal initiated by her, also made Sir Brown unclear what it was.

"Ms. Elena requested that "Oil Painting" magazine resume the recommended star rating for the online illustrator Ms. Detective Cat (FiverrID: THE Detective Cat). For the negligence committed in the matter of blocking and deleting on the buyer's guide column, I will publicly post an apology on the magazine's official website."

Sir Brown read the proposal in the meeting log word by word.

The surrounding shareholders also showed extremely confused facial expressions.

detective cat?
Who is Detective Cat?
(End of this chapter)