Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 1279: Century Merger

The latest website: One month has passed in a flash. On this day, Li Changheng signed several contracts at his home in Garden Street, London. After handing it over to his lawyer, he was officially settled in the Electricity and Natural Gas Pipeline Company of England.

And unlike the 35% stake he had hoped for before, he actually got 46% and 71% of the shares in the two companies.

All that was paid was the sales rights of the game console company in Europe and a 26% stake in the parent companies of the two game companies.

Li Changheng had never thought of exchanging shares, but there were more people who wanted to sell the shares of England Electricity and Gas than expected.

In addition, he is very clear in his heart that the revenue of the stand-alone game industry will drop sharply after the rise of computers.

It is better to replace it with what you want when the market value is about to reach its peak while there are still a few years of its peak period.

And his move not only suppressed a lot of noise, but many shareholders who didn't agree before even regretted it.

But Li Changheng was only willing to spend money to buy it at this time, and he could only buy it with money.

Capitalists are very realistic and not stupid. If a large number of shares are exchanged, the stock of the game company will inevitably fall, and 100% of the people who exchanged shares before will cause trouble.

On the contrary, the more he cared about the shares of the game company, the smoother things would go.

As for Andre, Frank, and Tyler, he was so long-winded that he would calm him down if he thought about getting new projects from him in the future.

When the three of Frank were unhappy, they were relieved.

They almost lost their life goals when Li Changheng wanted to retire before. Now they heard the promise of a new project in the future.

After finishing the internal affairs of the game company, Li Changheng was suspended from trading by signing a contract with the Electricity and Gas Company and adjusting his shares.

It spent $5 million to hire accountants from UBS and Citi, as well as their own lawyers and lawyers from the two companies.

Started to investigate, rectify and purge the two companies.

News that more than a dozen executives, and even a major shareholder of a power company with more than 9% of the shares, were taken away by the police once again appeared on the front pages of media large and small in England.

The executives were arrested, and the media and the public were not too surprised.

But the major shareholder was arrested, and anyone with a discerning eye would know that this person must have been a firm opponent of Li Changheng's entry before without the media breaking the news or checking it himself.

Now Li Changheng won, but he didn't just push his opponents off the board, as most companies do.

Rather, it is very revengeful to directly get people in.

This method really frightened many nobles and capitalists, and even Philip called and said that his move this time was too ruthless.

Li Changheng promised well on his lips, but secretly he didn't plan to let him go.

Once he takes 9% of his shares, his stake in the power company will reach 50%.

Whoever buys it will buy more than 51% of the shares.

In the past, he would have listened to Philip's advice, but at this time, he was already No. 1 in the world, and while countless pairs of eyes were staring at him, his counterattacks were less intense, and it was guaranteed that someone would jump out against him again.

However, before starting, he also habitually intends to stabilize the interior first.

Shareholders were convened a few days later for a closed-door board meeting before the company resumed trading in the stock market.

It immediately attracted hundreds of reporters and curious ordinary people who came to inquire and gathered around the conference center on Financial Street.

The meeting has been open from 9:00 am to more than 8:00 pm.

At this time, it is not only journalists and good people who care about it, it can be said that the entire people of England, as long as they know that this matter is all surrounded by TV sets and radios.

More than two dozen shareholders of the electric and gas companies who were still worried in the morning changed their attitudes when they walked out of the conference center to face the media.

Not only strongly supported Li Changheng, but even passed him unanimously as chairman of the board of directors.

As soon as the news was reported, countless ordinary people, investors and financial institutions wanted to know what Li Changheng said on the board of directors.

It's a pity that no matter how the media, capitalists and aristocrats find relationships this time, none of the shareholders will have trouble living with their own money.

And the more mysterious it is, the more intriguing it is.

As expected, as Li Changheng said on the board of directors, many retail investors and investment institutions who had blind trust in him started buying shares in the electricity and gas companies regardless of anything.

Then, naturally, other funds attracted are also added.

So much so that when some big investment institutions want to enter the market, they find that they can't find any other good way besides grabbing stocks with retail investors.

Watching the stock price soared from £19 and £7 to £25 and £11 within three days, a surge of 32% and 57%, which immediately made countless investors and institutions regret jumping.

Of course, the market also understands that this is just a guarantee that Li Changheng has used his success and prestige over the years. Once the financial report comes out, there is no available income or a prospect plan that most people will recognize.

How fierce is the rise at this time, how miserable the fall will be at that time.

What everyone didn't expect was that the first thing Li Changheng did was to propose to divide the shares into ten, and reduce the share price from 25 and 11 pounds to 2.5 and 1.1 pounds per share.

This clearly is to attract more retail investors, and retail investors are the most timid group.

Sure enough, some people in the market couldn't help but want to arbitrage positions, and the stock price also fell, but for some institutions, this method has long been played by them.

The more Li Changheng does this, the more certain many people are that he is cleaning up unstable factors such as hesitant retail investors and investment institutions that simply want to arbitrage before making a big move.

In the stock market, many retail investors and institutions were selling and selling, and suddenly found that after the stock price fell by 11% and 26% in the morning, a large number of buying orders began to appear in the afternoon. In half an hour, the stock price not only returned to 25 and 11 pounds, but also broke through all the way. 26 and 12.

Fake, the people who sold the shares felt that they were being tricked. Some were hesitant, while others were trying to buy small stocks and small stocks again.

It was not until the stock price broke 27 and 11.5 that investors realized that the two companies had applied for a trading suspension again in a short period of time.

That night, countless people stood in front of the TV and radio again~lightnovelpub.net~ waiting for the media to announce the reason for Li Changheng's application for suspension from the securities regulatory department.

But people didn't expect that, after listening to it, I felt that this was normal. The first to announce the news was actually HL Media in the United States.

Then the English side can only cite HL Media's announcement that the Electricity and Gas Company of England is planning to buy a 50% stake in all natural gas production in Qatar's oil and gas fields.

The total value of this contract is expected to exceed 9 billion US dollars, and this is a price that only buys natural gas and has nothing to do with oil.

After hearing this, countless people felt that Li Changheng was crazy. Once this project was completed, it instantly became a record-breaking merger.

But the combined market value of the two companies is only 3.7 billion pounds. According to the exchange rate of pounds and US dollars at this time, the company sold only 7.6 billion US dollars.

What to buy, why to do it, and why England Power is getting into the gas business all at once became the focus of the world's attention.