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Chapter 461: Jardine's Countermeasures

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The boss of Xingguang Company and Xingguang Paging is Li Xuan's eldest brother Li Ke. At the beginning, Li Ke obtained a complete set of pager technology from the Oriental Research Institute and set up an electronic company in Hong Kong. With the support of Dongfang Commercial's distribution, Xingguang's pager products have successfully entered the market in many countries, with an annual sales volume of more than 600,000 units.

In order to sell pagers in the Hong Kong market, Starlight Electronics specially opened the Starlight paging station, which now covers the whole of Hong Kong and has 100,000 users, becoming one of the largest paging companies in Hong Kong. Liu Jialiang is one of the users of Starlight Pager. At this moment, he kept pressing the keys to turn the page, and quickly read the message received by the pager.

"Tell everyone a piece of breaking news, 'Fortune Li' gathered four other top Hong Kong tycoons to launch a comprehensive acquisition of Landmark! Now the stock of Landmark has been temporarily suspended by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, 'Fortune Li' has increased the price by a quarter, let go Buy Landmark's stock!" Liu Jialiang couldn't help shouting loudly, startling the other people in the office who were engrossed in their work.

But everyone quickly reacted. One of the milfs, a woman with a bit of charm, raised her head and threw a wink at Liu Jialiang, and said congratulations: "Aliang, I remember that you seem to have bought a lot of Landmark stocks. You've hit great luck this time! Do you want to take a leave from the boss and sell the stock first, after all, it's safe to do so!"

Some time ago, due to the suppression of various bad news, the stock price of Landmark plummeted. Liu = Jialiang was lethargic at work these days, and it was inevitable that he would complain a lot in front of his colleagues. Unexpectedly, feng shui took turns, he bought it at a price of 7.5 yuan at the beginning, and now Heung Kong Holdings has offered a purchase price of 9 yuan. Enough to make him a small fortune.

"Sister Li is right, Brother Liang, hurry up and sell the stock. Treat us to a big dinner tonight!" Another young female colleague in the office also agreed.

"You don't understand, Jardine Company will definitely not let 'Fortune Li' take Landmark so easily. It will definitely fight back! Wan Yihe's price is higher, 'Fortune Li' If the acquisition is successful, I may increase the price! So I am not in a hurry to sell the stock at all, I will make a decision after seeing the chips bet on both sides!" Liu Jialiang said with a smile.

All Xingguang paging users who have opened the stock information service have received the information that the five consortiums, Heung Kong Holdings, have fully acquired the Landmark Group. Others also learned about this blockbuster news at the first time through other channels.

For example, Liu Ruanxiong is sitting in the office of the chairman of Amygo at the moment, and the proud smile on his face can't be hidden. The investment manager of Sun Hung Kai Securities just made a special call to inform him of this client. The news that Hongkong Land was acquired by general offer.

In fact, he has been analyzing the stocks of the two companies, Jardine Holdings and Landmark Group, and finally concluded that the target should be the Landmark Group. Therefore, before the market closed yesterday, Liu Ruanxiong decisively passed Sun Hung Kai Securities and successfully swept in 2 million shares of Landmark.

And he just bought it yesterday, and today he learned that Land Land was acquired by a tender offer, and the kind of complacency in his heart can be imagined. According to the purchase price of 9 yuan per share given by Heungkong Holdings, yesterday's action has allowed him to easily make a profit of more than 3.6 million Hong Kong dollars.

"Ring-Ring-Ring-!" The phone on the desk rang suddenly and hurriedly.

"Is it Mr. Liu Ruanxiong? I'm Li Xuan!" On the other end of the phone. The first sentence the other party said made Liu Ruanxiong stunned for a moment.

Could it be that the person who called him was "God of Fortune Li"? However, Liu Ruanxiong thought that he had no interaction with Li Xuan before, and he could not guess why the other party suddenly called him.

"Are you Li Sheng from the Oriental Group?" Liu Ruanxiong asked a little uncertainly.

"Hehe, that's right. It's me!" Li Xuan smiled heartily on the phone, "I want to invite Liu Sheng to dinner, I wonder if Liu Sheng has time to admire his face?"

"It is my great honor to be invited by you, Li Sheng. I have no other arrangements for the evening!" Liu Ruanxiong said very happily.

"Seven o'clock in the evening. Fulinmen Restaurant in Causeway Bay, I'll be waiting for Liu Sheng on time!"

Liu Ruanxiong was still a little confused after hanging up Li Xuan's call. He didn't know why the famous "God of Fortune Li" suddenly invited him to dinner. Is it because of the 2 million shares of Landmark that he swept in before the market closed in the afternoon?

Liu Ruanxiong thought about breaking his head and felt that this was the only place he had anything to do with Li Xuan. However, the total share capital of Hongkong Land is as high as 2 billion shares, and the 2 million shares he purchased are only equivalent to 0.1% of the total share capital, which does not affect the overall situation at all.

The reason why Li Xuan made this call to Liu Ruanxiong was indeed because of the 2 million Landmark shares. Before the closing bell yesterday, Liu Ruanxiong swept into Land Land's stock abruptly, which surprised Zhuang Yuhai's trading team, thinking that his acquisition had been seen through.

These traders under Zhuang Yuhai are all top experts who have been dug back from Wall Street. They cooperated with the nodes of various news released by Zhuang Yuhai, and severely suppressed several waves of Landmark's stock price. With Heung Kong Holdings accumulating a lot of money, the stock price of Landmark still seems to fluctuate violently, which confuses the market's attention.

However, if you analyze it in depth, you can actually find the abnormality of the stock price of Landmark in the past few months. But Li Xuan and Zhuang Yuhai never believed that there were no smart people in this world. Therefore, after discussions last night, the five members of Heung Kong Holdings decided to start public mergers and acquisitions.

Heung Kong Holdings has concentrated the shares of Landmark scattered in multiple shell companies, which has reached 24.5%, which is not too much compared to the number of shares held by the major shareholder Jardine Holdings. The capital consumed by Zhuang Yuhai inhaling these shares is less than 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is far lower than the original estimate. He still has as much as 9.5 billion in his hands.

This morning, while Zhuang Yuhai went to the Keswick office with the tender offer letter, Heung Kong Holdings also applied to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as a major shareholder of Landmark for a stock suspension, and issued a general tender offer notice to all Landmark shareholders.

Liu Ruanxiong was naturally unaware of his actions yesterday, which directly led to Heung Kong Holdings' public merger and acquisition action ahead of schedule. And Zhuang Yuhai quickly found out. It was Liu Ruanxiong, the owner of Agaome, who swept into Landmark stocks in the last market yesterday.

When Zhuang Yuhai received the call. Li Xuan happened to be next to him. He didn't expect this "big Liu Sheng" to have an intersection with him in this way. To the "female star sniper" famous in Hong Kong in later generations. Li Xuan is naturally like thunder.

The invincible real estate trick, golf **** worth 10 million, this Liu Daheng is definitely a city person who is very good at playing. Of course, Guan Meiren had already been taken into his arms by Li Xuan in advance, and he would naturally not be so beastly to stuff things into the most delicate places of women. But now that he has met this strange man, Li Xuan is also very interested in seeing him in person, so he has the invitation to call.

Li Xuan, together with Huo Yingdong, Guo Henian, Xu Shixun, and Lin Guitai, established the Heung Kong Holding Company, and launched the acquisition of Hong Kong's largest market value Landmark Group. The news quickly spread to every corner of Hong Kong. Standard Chartered Bank, Jiahua Bank, Bank of China, Hang Seng Bank and other banks that provided credit support for this operation also issued announcements to confirm their credit lines.

Those who are interested only need to do a simple addition problem, and they will find that the eight banks have provided a total of 9.5 billion Hong Kong dollars in funds for this merger. In addition to the funds raised by the five rich people, the funds that Heung Kong Holdings can use are definitely more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

And if Jardine wants to fight back in the event of a surprise attack, it must raise funds as soon as possible. The only bank in Hong Kong capable of providing such large-scale cash to Jardine is also HSBC, so Keswick called Shen Bi for help as soon as Zhuang Yuhai left.

It's a pity that Shen Bi has long known the trump card of Xiangjiang Holdings, and he does not think that with the current strength of Jardine, he has the ability to turn defeat into victory. Bidding is actually a money-making game, and Heung Kong Holdings has prepared 13 billion yuan of funds. And the total market value of Jardine is only 56 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Now Heung Kong Holdings has quietly increased its shareholding ratio to 24.5%, and Jardine has lost even the last advantage of holding shares, which can be said to be a sure defeat.

Naturally, HSBC would not stand on the side of the loser, so Shen Bi very decisively rejected Jardine's financing request. This led to a joint discussion meeting between Jardine and the executives of the two companies. The atmosphere is gloomy and gloomy!

"Heung Kong Holdings has invited Dolly, a subsidiary of HSBC, as the acquisition consultant for this operation, so Sir Shen should have known the other party's acquisition intentions long ago!" Landmark CEO Bedford Ford said with a serious face.

If Landmark is acquired. Those executives from the Jardine family will definitely be kicked out. So in order to keep his job, Bedford Ford had to stand firmly with Jardine to defend Landmark.

But Shen Bi's attitude has actually surfaced from one side. HSBC is not optimistic about the possibility of Jardine's counterattack, which is by no means good news for everyone present.

"Mr. Chairman. I think it is time to start the additional issuance plan immediately to show the market that we are determined to defend the controlling stake in Landmark!" suggested another British Landmark director.

According to the resolution passed at the previous shareholders meeting of Landmark, the board of directors of Landmark has the right to issue up to 10% of new shares at a price not lower than 20% of the market price. The original major shareholder, Jardine, guided the general meeting of Landmark's shareholders to pass this authorization, in order to quickly increase its shareholding ratio in an emergency, thereby deterring other potential acquisition opponents.

But even if Landmark now issues 10% new shares to major shareholder Jardine Holdings at a 20% discount to the suspension price of HK$7.2 per share, Jardine would have to come up with HK$1.15 billion in cash, and the company's current liquidity is simply not that much. many.

Since the shares of Landmark have been temporarily suspended from trading, trading can only be conducted through a stock brokerage entrusted by Heung Kong Holdings. However, on the first day, there were not many people who went to the company responsible for representing the merger and acquisition transaction, and sold their shareholders of Landmark.

Most of the shareholders of Hongkong Land have chosen to wait and see temporarily, waiting for the action of Jardine. The Jardine Group has not disappointed everyone. In the evening, the two companies, Jardine Holdings and Landmark Group, issued a series of announcements intensively.

Among them, Jardine Holdings announced that 2 new Jardine shares with a price of 11 yuan and an unsecured bond with a face value of 80 yuan were exchanged for 10 shares of Landmark at a total consideration of 102 yuan. That is to say, Jardine has given a book purchase price of 10.2 yuan for each Landmark stock.

At the same time, Landmark also announced that it would issue an additional 200 million new shares to Jardine Holdings at a price of RMB 5.76 per share to acquire a 50% stake in Jinmen Construction Company held by Jardine Holdings, a 25% stake in Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal, 50% stake in Jardine Schindler, and Zon Fu Hong Co., Ltd.

Kinmen Construction is the most famous general construction contractor in Hong Kong. It was originally a Hong Kong listed company and was successfully privatized by the Jardine Group in 1975. Then, in 1983, Jardine Company transferred half of the shares of Golden Gate Construction to the Trafalgar Group of the United Kingdom.

With the strong support of Jardine and Trafalgar, the business of Golden Gate Construction is no longer limited to a corner of Hong Kong, but instead is striving to develop into a first-class builder in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal is the main operator of Hong Kong's air cargo industry~www.readwn.com~ is jointly initiated by Jardine, Swire and Cathay Pacific. With the development of Hong Kong's aviation industry, the company's annual profitability has been steadily rising.

Jardine Schindler is a joint venture between Jardine and the Schindler Group, the world's second largest lift company and the largest escalator company, accounting for about 70% of the Hong Kong commercial lift and escalator market.

Zonfuxing is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jardine Motors Co., Ltd. and the general agent of German Pingzhi Automobile (Mercedes-Benz) in Hong Kong and Macau. It has two showrooms and eight maintenance services in Hong Kong and Macau. center.

It can be said that Jardine Company has taken out a large amount of high-quality assets this time in exchange for the new shares issued by the land company. Of course, it is not so easy for this transaction to be finalized. First, a professional third-party appraisal company should conduct a value appraisal of these assets of Jardine.

But Jardine's move undoubtedly shows its determination. Once the deal for the additional issuance of new shares is reached, Jardine's stake in Landmark will rise to 31.8%. The original 24.5% stake in Heung Kong Holdings will be diluted to 22.3%. Jardine can regain an equity lead of about 10%, making it temporarily in a relatively favorable position in this war of takeovers and anti-takeovers. (To be continued...)

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