Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1449: Leaky wind
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The acquisition of Apple was completed 60% long before the money arrived.
Li Mu used Mango-ME2 and YYtunes to uproot the profits of Apple, and through the joining of Andy Rubin, let Apple all give up resistance up and down, and then let Jobs promise to sign a competition agreement. After that, Apple was already a piece of meat on the cutting board, just waiting to sharpen the knife.
Now, when the money arrives, it means that the knife has also been sharpened. The acquisition progress has been completed by 80%. The last hurdle remaining is Nasdaq. After all, there is still a part of this meat in Nasdaq. The remaining problem in the hands of investors is to liquidate the NASDAQ investors.
If it is listed in Hong Kong, according to the way of privatization in Hong Kong according to the number of shareholders, even if Li Mu holds more than 66% of the shares, it may not be able to vote through privatization. Once the number of people is insufficient, privatization will be difficult to succeed, but In the US stock market, there is no such "people-oriented" mode of operation. As long as Li Mu gets most of the shares, it can directly pass the privatization process at the shareholders' meeting and then force the winding up of those shareholders with outstanding shares.
In contrast, Li Mu prefers the simple and rough operation mode of the United States.
In the meeting, Li Mu immediately formulated a strategic process for acquiring Apple and completing privatization. He told Lin Qingya and Ding Jian: "Lin Zong is responsible for following up the Apple shareholder meeting to complete the contract signing in the fastest time; Mr. Ding, you Cooperating with Louis, Apple shareholders only had to sign and immediately took the agreement and money and applied to the Nasdaq for privatization. "
The two immediately nodded solemnly, and Louis Martin from Sequoia said at this time: "As long as the Apple shareholders sign and the equity transfer is completed, we will immediately hold a shareholders meeting to vote on the issue of privatization, but as long as Apple These shareholders are signed as scheduled. The general meeting of shareholders is a process. We will directly inform the Nasdaq shareholders of the results, and then use the funds for privatization to the Nasdaq regulatory account, you can apply for compulsory privatization The shareholders holding outstanding shares have no room for rebuttal, and various stock agencies will assist us in completing the subsequent stock repurchase work. "
"Very good!" Li Mu nodded with a smile, and said: "Since our money has arrived, let the Apple executives sign as soon as possible."
Finally, Li Mu said to Li Ziwei: "Ziwei, let ’s notify Cook now and let Cook inform all Apple board members that they are ready to sign in the afternoon. After signing, we immediately pay 50% of their purchase price. The next 50% will be paid in full within three months according to the agreement. "
Li Ziwei nodded and asked Li Mu: "Chief Li, will it be a rush to sign in the afternoon?"
Li Mu said: "It ’s better to choose a day than to hit a day. Anyway, all the details have been discussed, the framework agreement has been signed, and the actual transfer agreement has been drafted. Our money has also been paid. What else can we wait for? Well, you tell them that if you sign today, in addition to the contractual payment of 50%, they will pay an additional 20%! "
The contract template specifies that 50% of the purchase price is paid immediately after signing, and the remaining 50% is divided into three months. Li Mu can divide the 50% into three months to pay a little bit, or all on the same day I paid it all in one breath, or all of it was paid until the last day of three months. In short, it was within the scope of the contract, as long as he liked it, whatever he wanted.
So, Li Mu decided that as long as Apple signed happily today, they would pay them 70% of the purchase price today. They have been eager to cash out recently, and they took out 70% on the day, which must be very attractive to them.
Li Ziwei said immediately: "Then I will contact Cook now and let him communicate as soon as possible and reply as soon as possible."
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Recently, Apple is in a special anxiety up and down.
This anxiety stems from their distrust of Li Mu's. While looking forward to the acquisition of Apple by Li Mu, they are worried that Li Mu will tear up the framework agreement anytime and anywhere, leaving Apple alone into the abyss.
The reason for this feeling is that the stock price of Apple has dropped a bit in the past two days. When the framework agreement was previously communicated with Li Mu, the stock price was 4.15, and at this moment, the stock price has fallen to 3.74.
The reason why it has bottomed out is still falling slowly, the reason is that the mess left by the iPod business is constantly fermenting, like a box of broken fruit, it was only bad at first, and then began to rot. , Moldy, smelly, and stinky water.
A large number of iPod users who want to return products have not been effectively dealt with. The dealers have not paid back the prepaid money to Apple, nor have they received Apple funds for processing returns. At this time, they dare not accept anything. The user's refund request, otherwise, the cost and risk are all double tied to themselves.
However, the user ’s appeal has not been effectively resolved, which has caused the user ’s anger to accumulate. They continue to protest Apple and Apple dealers online and offline, which has a serious negative impact on Apple.
In addition, dealers have begun to torture with Apple, and even some dealers have united to sue to the court, which adds to the current scandal of Apple.
At this time, the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) supplier factory began to jump out and join in the excitement. They announced that Apple still has a considerable amount of payment that has not been paid. This has brought huge financial pressure to the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) supplier factory and caused Apple to be in a hurry.
Because of this, Apple is particularly looking forward to the Li Mu's acquisition as scheduled. After all, the stock price is still falling. If Li Mu suddenly announces that it will give up, their assets will shrink a lot.
If Li Mu complies with the framework agreement, then Li Mu will be acquired according to the stock price of 4.15USD. According to the agreement, the actual purchase price is 90% of 4.15USD, which is 3.73USD, but if it is converted according to the current 3.74, then 90% In that case, the actual purchase price is only 3.36, and by that time, their assets will shrink by more than 60%. This is too tragic for the shareholders of Apple.
Tim Cook is also very worried about the Li Mu contract, because he also holds a considerable number of Apple stocks, under normal circumstances, because of the internal restrictions of Apple, these stocks will take years to gradually cash out, you can continue to do so, use Before long, Apple's stock price will fall below its net assets. By then, you will have nothing left. However, according to company regulations, if you leave early, the remaining stock will be returned by the company at a very low price. If you buy it, then it ’s basically nothing.
However, if the Li Mu is fully taken over, the Apple stocks in your hand can be cashed out in one go. In any case, the price of 4.15USD is much higher than the company ’s repurchase price. Instead, it can cash out a fortune in advance.
In addition to Li Mu ’s promise to join Muye Science and Technology, giving him 150% of the salary, not only money earned, but also joined the world ’s top internet company, so Tim Cook no matter how to calculate this account, I feel Being acquired is the most appropriate.
It ’s no wonder that Tim Cook ’s loyalty to Apple is not enough. After all, everyone is out for a meal. In front of individuals and companies, everyone must first consider the individual, and then the collective.
When resisting, you should carry a gun and a gun, you should fight a war; if you lose a battle, throw the gun, bend your waist, and surrender. If you have the opportunity to transform into a leading party, he will definitely not Hesitation, this is the logic of thinking of normal people in a capitalist society.
There are not many people in the company who have such ideas as Tim Cook, because when Li Mu proposed the acquisition conditions for Apple, it required that most of the middle and high-level Apple must stay, so the company had organized large Talking on scale, informing these employees of Muye Science and Technology's acquisition intention and asking for their opinions, it is surprising that almost the vast majority of Apple middle and senior managers are willing to join Muye Science and Technology after Apple is acquired.
For the current Apple employees, waiting for the company to be acquired, then incorporated into Muye Science and Technology, and enjoy higher wages, this attraction is too great, and I do n’t know how to refuse, just like the employees of Beiqi The opportunity to work at Mercedes and get 1.5 times the salary, no one can think of a reason for refusal.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Tim Cook drove to the company. The Apple went to work from 9:30 am to ten o'clock in the flexible working system, but Tim Cook has always been used to arriving early.
After arriving at the company, Tim Cook asked his secretary to prepare a cup of coffee for himself. By the time before work, he turned over the latest newspaper that looks at secretary had prepared today.
Tim Cook is most concerned about newspapers in two places, one is Silicon Valley and the other is Wall Street. The former leads the global internet and the latter leads the entire US money.
In the course of a quick glance, Tim Cook saw a piece of news published in the Wall Street Journal today. The headline of the news shocked him: "According to reliable information, Muye Science and Technology is planning to acquire Apple, and Realize the privatization of Apple! "
Reading the content of the news carefully, Tim Cook found that the whole news was cut from the angle of "according to insiders". Although there is no source, the content is very detailed, including Muye Science and Technology is preparing to buy non-tradable shares in the hands of Apple shareholders for 90% of the stock price, and then buy liquid shares in the hands of Nasdaq retail investors for 150% of the stock price.
This news also commented on this practice of Muye Science and Technology. They inferred that Li Mu gave a 150% premium to NASDAQ investors, which seemed to be the wrongdoer, but in fact he was quite scheming. He wanted to take this opportunity Take the favor of Nasdaq investors and build a bridge for Muye Science and Technology's listing on Nasdaq.
After watching this news, Tim Cook turned pale. He immediately turned on the TV in his office and started watching the pre-market news on the Financial Channel.
There are more than ten minutes before the opening of the Nasdaq. Pre-market news at this time can easily affect the trend of the stock price today.
Sure enough, the economists of the pre-market news are interpreting the authenticity of the report in The Wall Street Journal. The economists support this report and believe that most of the content of this report has sufficient judgment basis, and the authenticity should be Very high, and he also predicted that today's Apple share price will usher in the first big rebound in several days.
Rebound ...
Tim Cook ’s lungs are almost exploding! Today's share price rebound has no meaning, no matter how much it rebounds, because today's share price rebounds, the news of Muye Science and Technology's acquisition of Apple is good. The true shareholders of Apple have not signed the framework agreement, so they simply cannot enjoy This is good, even if the stock price soars to the eight yuan level before the decline, because Li Mu will only buy 90% of the stock at 4.15USD for their price.
Moreover, none of them dare to bargain with Li Mu again at this time, because once Li Mu is hot and officially announced that it will not acquire Apple, Apple ’s stock price will suffer a retaliatory decline. There must be a supplementary drop, which may directly hit the price within three USD.
So, Tim Cook was particularly angry because leaking such messages would not benefit Apple, but would annoy Li Mu because Li Mu would think that the news was leaked from inside Apple, and It seems that this possibility is indeed very large. At the same time, if the Apple stock price rebounded more strongly today, exceeding the 4.15USD in the framework agreement, the Li Mu's privatization offer price will change from "premium" to "discount". It is possible to use generous buybacks to win the favor of NASDAQ investors, but it can be a toss. In the eyes of investors, Li Mu has become the culprit of buying their stocks at a low price, and Li Mu is not angry. strange!