Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 1279: merger of the century

A month passed in a flash. On this day, Li Changheng signed several contracts at his home on Garden Street in London, and after handing them over to his lawyer, he was considered to have officially settled in the England Electricity and Gas Pipeline Company.

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

What was paid was only the sales rights of the game console company in Europe and 26% of the shares of the parent companies of the two game companies.

Originally, Li Changheng never thought about swapping shares, but more people wanted to sell shares in England Electricity and Gas than expected.

In addition, he knew very well that after the rise of computers in the stand-alone game industry, the revenue would drop sharply.

It's better to take advantage of the peak period of a few years and when the market value is about to reach its peak, replace it with what you want.

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

But Li Changheng is only willing to buy it with money at this time, and he can 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 cares about the shares of the game company, the smoother things will be.

As for Andre, Frank and Taylor, they were overwhelmed by his repeated words that they should not get new projects from themselves in the future.

When the three of Frank were upset, they were relieved again.

Before, they were almost lost their life goals by Li Changheng's words of wanting to retire. Now that they heard the guarantee of new projects in the future, the three felt relieved while feeling sorry for the money.

After finishing the internal affairs of the game company, Li Changheng suspended the trading period by signing a contract with the electricity and gas company and adjusting the shares.

It spent 5 million US dollars to hire accountants from UBS and Citigroup, as well as its own lawyers and lawyers from the two companies.

Started to investigate, rectify and cleanse the two companies.

The news that more than a dozen executives and even a major shareholder of a power company with more than 9% shares were taken away by the police made the front pages of media in England once again.

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

But when the major shareholder was arrested, no one with a discerning eye needed the media to break the news or investigate on their own. They knew that this person must have been a firm opponent of Li Changheng's entry.

Now Lee Jang Hyung has won, but he didn't just drive the naysayers off the board like most companies do.

Instead, they directly get people in with a strong sense of revenge.

This method did scare many aristocrats and capitalists, and even Philip called, saying that his actions this time were too ruthless.

Li Changheng promised well, but secretly he didn't intend to let the other party go.

Once he takes 9% of the shares in his hand, his own shares in the power company can reach 50%.

Anyone who buys and buys can get more than 51% of the shares.

If he would really have listened to Philip's advice before, but now that he has firmly established himself as the number one in the world, while countless eyes are staring at him, his counterattack methods are less violent, and it is guaranteed that someone will jump out and target him again.

However, before making a move, he also habitually planned to stabilize the interior first.

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

Immediately, hundreds of journalists and curious ordinary people who came for inquiries gathered around the conference center on Financial Street.

The meeting lasted from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm.

At this time, it is not just reporters and troublemakers who are concerned. It can be said that the people of the whole of England, as long as they know this matter, are surrounded by TVs and radios.

Twenty-odd shareholders of the electric and gas company, who were still worried in the morning, changed their previous attitude when they walked out of the conference center to face the media.

Not only strongly supported Li Changheng, but even unanimously approved him as the 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 nobles try to find relationships this time, no shareholder will have trouble with their own money.

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

As expected, the market did what Li Changheng said at the board meeting. Many retail investors and investment institutions who had blind trust in him simply started buying shares in electricity and gas companies regardless of anything.

Then naturally, other funds attracted are also added.

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

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

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

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

To everyone's surprise, the first thing Li Changheng did was to propose splitting the shares into ten, reducing the stock price from 25 and 11 pounds to 2.5 and 1.1 pounds per share.

This clearly wants 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 take a profit position, and the stock price also fell in response, but this method has long been used by some institutions.

The more Li Changheng did this, the more certain people became that he was clearing out unstable factors such as hesitant retail investors and investment institutions that simply wanted to arbitrage before making a big move.

Many retail investors and institutions in the stock market were selling and selling. They suddenly discovered that after the stock price fell by 11% and 26% in the morning, a large number of buy 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 the whole way. 26 and 12.

Falk, those who sold their shares felt that they had been tricked, some hesitated, and some tried to buy small stocks and small stocks again.

It wasn't until the stock price broke through 27 and 11.5 that investors discovered that the two companies had applied for a trading suspension again in a short period of time.

Countless people stood in front of the TV and radio again that night~lightnovelpub.net~waiting for the media to announce the reasons for Li Changheng’s application for trading suspension.

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

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

It is estimated that the total amount of this contract will 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 thought Li Changheng was crazy. Once this project was completed, it would instantly become a record-breaking merger.

But the combined market value of the two companies is only 3.7 billion pounds. According to the current exchange rate between the British pound and the U.S. dollar, the company is only sold for 7.6 billion U.S. dollars.

What to buy, why it should be done, and the news of why England Electric Power should participate in the natural gas business, all of a sudden became the focus of the world's attention.