I’m in Hollywood

After Sophie left, Eric also rushed to the hotel restaurant for breakfast.

In recent days, the business has been very complicated. Not only will the team of firefly investment companies led by Chris come to Paris today to discuss the acquisition of Nokia Group, and Eric will give these Europeans according to the agreement with Jack Valenti last night. Local film forces have some sweetness, so that these local snakes will not appear to obstruct the negotiations of the GATT. Moreover, he is not likely to completely liberalize the propaganda work of Jurassic Park.

As Eric's first assistant, Allen routinely sorted out some of today's newspapers that required Eric's attention. When I saw Eric in the restaurant, I placed a stack of newspapers at his desk. on.

"Eric, I think you should look at this." Allen pointed to the top weekly magazine.

Eric took it. This is a newsweek in France. Although Allen only made an English comment on the key pages, Eric can still understand why he asked himself to pay attention to the newspaper.

Because this newsweek used a whole page, it published a picture of a picture of Tyrannosaurus Rampage in the city of Paris, and the title was marked with the ‘Culture: American Offensive’.

Eric can almost guess what the article is saying without reading the content.

France’s “Blood”, the most expensive film in history, was defeated at the box office in the face of Jurassic Park. The investment of more than 160 million francs only took back one million francs at the box office on the first day. It is expected that there will be only five hundred in the first week. About 10,000 francs, this figure has not been more than the "Jurassic Park" in France on the first day of the box office, the French will make such a reaction is understandable.

Eric quickly turned over the next few newspapers, and there was no reading. Today, French or English newspapers in France are basically talking about the box office of Jurassic Park.

However, thinking of the party last night, Eric’s mouth could not help but sneer a little ridiculous sneer, even the French local film forces had to privately turn to Hollywood. What is the use of these media to scream and scream, and ultimately nothing can be decided.

Aside from today’s newspaper, Eric told him: “You call the manager of the French branch and let him carry out the appropriate crisis public relations. We don’t have to worry about the rest.”

Allen quickly recorded Eric’s instructions in the memo and said: “Mr. Hansen’s flight arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport at ten o'clock. I have arranged several cars. Do you have to pick up the plane in person? ”

"I personally passed," Eric nodded.

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Departure hall at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The flight of Chris and his party landed at the airport nearly a quarter of an hour later than expected.

Notice that Chris's figure appeared at the exit of the VIP channel, and Eric smiled and waved at the other side and greeted him. When approaching, Eric found that Chris's followers were behind him, and he was alongside him with a middle-aged man who had nothing to do with fireflies.

The middle-aged is about forty years old, wearing a pair of rimless glasses, and the mediocre looks will give people a clumsy feeling.

However, Eric did not despise this middle-aged man, because he has seen the other party's photos on the relevant information more than once. This person is Nokia's current ceo Joma Olila. Although the appearance is ordinary, the resume of Jomala is not mediocre. This person not only has a double master's degree in ruling and economics, but also served as an executive of Citibank in the early 30s. Under his leadership, Nokia is heading from a bankrupt company to a global communications equipment overlord.

"Eric, I haven't seen you for a long time," Chris and Eric hugged, and quickly introduced him to him: "I think you must know him. Mr. Joma Olila."

Jorma Ollila took the initiative to step up and shook hands with Eric: "Mr. Williams, I am Joma Olila, I am very happy to meet you, I like your movie very much."

"Thank you. Just call me Eric." Eric released Joma Olila's hand and didn't care about the smile of the other person's smile. He turned and greeted the team members of the Firefly Investment Company brought by Chris.

When everyone left the airport, Eric took Chris into his car and the car just started. Chris couldn't wait to open the suitcase he carried with him: "Eric, according to the information you sent back to New York, I once again made an assessment of the Nokia company..."

Eric interrupted Chris's words and smiled and pointed to the car behind him: "You haven't told me what happened to Jomala, how could he come to Paris with you?"

Chris smiled and temporarily closed the suitcase and said: "He is almost me who came back from New York."

"I know that Jomal Olila went to Wall Street to invest in Nokia, but the situation should not be as bad as you said?"

"As far as I know, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are not interested in investing in Nokia because the Boston Consulting Group has publicly published a report more than a year ago, claiming that Nokia’s mobile phone business is completely out of sync with Motorola. Competing with Japanese mobile phone manufacturers, and finally Lehman Brothers who just got rid of the control of the company is interested in investing, but Lehman Brothers is now in a very short supply of funds, and the conditions for opening it are more demanding. When I contacted Jola Ollila, he I have been negotiating with the manager of Lehman Brothers' investment department for a month, and I haven't talked to each other. From this point of view, this person is really capable, but at the same time he has become the resistance of our acquisition of Nokia. Since he will not easily compromise the giants like Lehman Brothers, that is to say he will not easily compromise with us."

Eric asked: "So, did you get the content of his negotiations with Lehman Brothers?"

Chris nodded. "Of course," said Chris, opening the suitcase and taking a few documents from it and handing it to Eric.

"The dispute between Yoma Olila and Lehman Brothers is mainly focused on the size of the capital injection and the time to market. Lehman Brothers initially only promised to invest 50 million US dollars, but to take away 10% of Nokia's shares, in addition, Lehman Brothers The condition given is to help Nokia operate the market three years later, but Jorma Ollila hopes that Lehman Brothers will be able to directly operate Nokia's listing and draw development funds from the stock market."

Eric read the documents in front of him and wondered: "He is eager to go public and do something. If Nokia's development prospects are good, it will be listed later. Isn't it possible to get more benefits?"

“I also made people analyze this aspect,” Chris explained. “Most of Nokia’s current equity is concentrated in the hands of several Finnish banks, which means that Nokia needs to make any major business adjustments. It is licensed by several bank shareholders. This situation has led to a very narrow space for Nokia’s management. But if Nokia can operate in North America, Nokia will become a publicly held company, so management has To make more use of the space, we only need to be accountable to the majority of shareholders, and we don’t have to listen to the opinions of several bank shareholders."

"In the end. He still wants more power, right?"

Chris nodded: "Yes, so when I first started to contact Joma Olila, he was not too enthusiastic about investing in fireflies. I was worried that he would continue to cooperate with Lehman Brothers and suddenly cooperate. I revealed some information about Cisco, and he promised to go back to Europe with me."

Although Firefly Investment hides Cisco's equity in several investment funds, it is still Cisco's largest shareholder, however. In addition to the necessary personnel and financial supervision of Cisco, Firefly Investment did not have much to intervene in the operation of this company, Eric understands that Jomar Olila should be worthy of this.

"Speaking of this, last week Cisco completed the merger of coc communications, extending the Cisco business to the catalyst5000 switch field. After the merger, our equity slipped to 31%, but according to the stock price before the closing price on Friday, Cisco The current market value has reached 5.3 billion US dollars, the detailed information headquarters is still finishing. After the completion will be sent to your mailbox, I just simply tell you."

Eric nodded and said that since the Clinton officially took office and announced the information highway plan, the company's share price related to computer networks has been rising rapidly over the past six months. Cisco's share price has more than doubled since the beginning of the year. Although the network technology stocks are far from the madness, this trend has attracted a lot of attention from Wall Street investors.

Chris finished the matter and quickly took out a packed gift box from the suitcase: "Hey, the second thing. Someone asked me to bring you a gift."

Eric didn't notice the smirk of Chris's mouth. Some doubts broke the wrapping paper and found that it was a 32-inch photo frame. The two chubby little guys were sitting on the sofa and the little boy was squatting. A pair of eyes stared at the camera a little bit, and the eyebrows were like Joanna's little girl, but they seemed to grab something with a small hand.

Eric saw the photos, and this was remembered. The two little guys were born on April 10, and the first few days were the anniversary of the birth of two little guys for three months. He forgot about it. I haven’t called back in the past few days. It seems that Virginia must be very angry, so that Chris can bring a 'gift' to himself.

Chris said on the side: "I went to Emily on the day of Kevin's baptism. I am now the godfather of the little guy. I thought you must know, but I didn't inform you. The day before Emily went to see two. Little guy, bring this thing back to me and I will know it."

Western children are generally baptized after a few months of birth. Eric did not expect that Virginia had not discussed with him, and he did it directly. He smiled awkwardly, and Eric realized what he was asking. : "Kevin's baptism, what about summer and summer?"

Chris spreads hands: "This should be something you and Joanna discuss," noticed Eric's confused expression, Chris said again: "Joanna is Jewish, Jewish mother, traditionally, summer. Xia should also be regarded as a Jew. From the perspective of pedigree, she can also be regarded as an Englishman. The British generally believe in Christianity. Therefore, let the little guy believe in which sect, you must discuss it with Joanna."

Eric felt a little weird and muttered: "My daughter turned out to be Jewish."

After knowing this for a long time, Chris realized that Eric is a person who is not sensitive to race, so he also knows that Eric has no discrimination in his words. He laughed: "Yeah, if you let If you pick up your class in summer and summer, you will definitely be very popular with Hollywood."

"It just feels a bit strange," Eric laughed. "Then, you, Chris, which ethnic group is your family?"

Chris said: "My family is a Norwegian immigrant who migrated during the Great Navigation era. It should be considered an American nation now."

"Norway, I thought Hansen is also a British surname," Eric laughed.

"The arrogance in the British bones," Chris tweeted, explaining: "The name of Hansen is the name of the son of Hans. If you read a fairy tale, you will find Han. The name Sri Lanka is often found in Nordic fairy tales, and Norway is one of the five Nordic countries."

Eric collected the photos of the two little guys and said, "Well, don't talk about this for the time being, let's go back to Nokia."

Chris nodded and pulled out several documents from the suitcase: "This is some of the comparison tests I commissioned from Cisco's technical department. The communication method used by Nokia completely suppresses most of the mobile communication devices at this stage. Now mainstream The mobile phones use analog signals, because they use pulse signals, which are highly susceptible to interference during transmission and cause call quality distortion. In fact, many mobile communication equipment companies are studying new communication standards, and from Cisco The test results given by the technical department, Nokia's 1011 mobile phone uses a very stable digital signal, this signal uses the same binary principle as the computer, there is no distortion in the transmission process, so I think if Nokia The adoption of the g** network can be promoted, which will cause a huge change in mobile communication equipment. Nokia, which first launched the g** mobile phone, will also gain great advantages. If we do not want our investment, the acquisition After the completion, the first thing we have to do is to lobby the European countries to adopt the g** system. formula."

Eric said: "This seems to be something to do after the acquisition is completed?" (To be continued.)