Chapter 413 Before Marriage

Indeed, at this time, without the emergence of Facebook and Woaw Technology being a British company, it is really possible for MySpace to develop, at least it will develop better than this company did in the original time and space.

But Barron decided to sell MySpace to News Corporation rather than let IC Capital continue to develop it, thereby basically monopolizing the entire social network track behind the scenes.

After all, doing this is like two barber shops at the entrance of a community. On the surface they are competing, but in fact they are owned by the same owner...

For ordinary people, it may be difficult for ordinary people to understand the situation behind this kind of thing, but with the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, they can find out everything after an investigation.

Although IC Capital has nothing to do with Barron's on the surface, can it really hide it from everyone? Now Barron has no need to play this kind of "spy war" game, because once found out, not only MySpace and Woaw will get a sky-high fine for creating a monopoly, but it will even affect all the industries under Barron's name. American and even global business.

This is simply not worth the gain.

Since MySpace is for sale, the best buyer is News Corporation.

After all, the results of News Corporation's management of MySpace in the previous life showed that handing over MySpace to them would not pose much of a threat to Woaw.

In the traditional media field, News Corporation is a strong opponent, but in the Internet industry, their management style is really "rushing for quick success" and does not adapt to the development of this industry.

It is precisely in this way that MySpace is just right as a rival to Woaw.

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After SEM Group completed its merger and acquisition of ITV, the British TV station field once again formed a "big three" pattern, namely BBC, Sky TV and ITV.

However, the current ITV has been merged with SDTV after being acquired by SEM Group, and has a new unified logo.

After the acquisition, former ITV CEO Michael Gray was also appointed CEO of Summit Media.

The original strategic mergers and acquisitions department also became the strategic development department. Joe Harriman was appointed as a director of the strategic development department because of his outstanding performance in the merger and acquisition of ITV.

The next task of the strategic development department is to value other businesses of SEM Group and inject them into the listed company Summit Media.

Because after Summit Media went public, and now, they feel more and more that because Summit Media has become a listed company, the change in equity has caused a separation in its coordination with other businesses of the SEM Group.

After all, the shareholders of SEM Group only hold 90% of DS Capital and 10% of Sinclair Group.

Summit Media previously accounted for 20% of the outstanding shares, and after completing the merger with ITV, a large proportion of the shares fell to ITV shareholders.

Therefore, the first thing to do now is to resolve this matter and bring the SEM Group back into a whole.

In addition to Summit Media, SEM Group's main assets are three parts: independent newspapers, a 45.9% stake in Digital UK, and a 30% stake in what was originally Giant Studio and is now called Stuart Media.

After injecting these business valuations into Summit Media, the stock will be renamed SEM Group. In addition to the change in the name of the listed company and the change in shareholding ratio, in fact, there will be no changes in the company's operations. What a big change.

Well, one more thing is that the shares of Digital UK owned by SEM Group will be merged with the shares of Digital UK previously held by ITV and now held by Summit Entertainment after the merger. They will hold a total of The 59.4% stake in Digital UK is close to the BBC's initial 46% share in Digital UK.

But at this time, Barron didn't care much about these things.

Because...Bonnie is pregnant.

The news had just been confirmed, and Bonnie went to the best obstetrics and gynecology hospital in London for a checkup.

This is not the first time that Barron has become a father. Before this, he already had two daughters, Jennifer Cavendish and Ethel Butt, and now has another child, Catherine N. In Weir's belly, the baby was about to be born in almost two months, and it had been confirmed by ultrasound that it was a daughter...

But the difference is that this time, Bonnie Stuart, who is pregnant, is his real girlfriend.

And at Barron's current age, he is about to celebrate his 26th birthday, and it is time to consider the issue of heirs.

Although now, the inheritance of aristocratic titles does not necessarily require a male born in wedlock, only a male descendant with a blood relationship, but in contrast, how to say a child born out of wedlock, in a high-level noble like a duke? It's not always decent to say so.

So faced with this situation, Barron finally decided to hold a wedding with Bonnie Stuart in the near future.

However, the two already have a tacit understanding about this. It's not that Bonnie doesn't know that Barron has other women outside. In fact, this matter has already been explained after the two briefly "broke up" and got back together. accepted by her.

Even if the two people do have a deep relationship, it would be impossible for Barron to sever ties with other women after marriage.

And among those women, there are wealthy daughters like Tamaran Ecclestone, the Hearst sisters, and Ivanta. It is impossible to say that they have always played the role of "lovers."

Therefore, the marriage between Barron and Bonnie Stuart was destined to not last to the end from the very beginning.

This is often an unspoken rule in upper class society. Even after divorce, it is very likely that the "ex-wife" will still live a de facto married life as before.

But before this wedding, there is more than one thing that needs to be resolved...

At least Barron's financial advisers are about to get busy.

Including his holdings in DS Capital and many companies, they need to be disposed of to a certain extent.

Immediately, they will transfer some shares to the Devon Hill Family Trust Fund, and many shares, including DS Capital, will be held by new trust funds registered in the Weijing Islands.

So-called trust funds are a way for many wealthy people to dispose of family assets to avoid high inheritance taxes and keep assets from being divided by descendants.

There are three main key parties to a trust fund: the settlor, the administrator and the beneficiary.

For example, if Barron packages a company's shares into a trust fund, then Barron is the trustee of the trust fund. After entering the trust fund, these shares will be managed by a professional organization, which is the manager; and If Barron leaves the trust fund property to his children, his children will be the beneficiaries.

The reason why he chose to register his trust fund in the British Virgin Islands this time is because it is the only place where trust funds are allowed to be registered, and the trustor, manager and beneficiary are all the same person.

That is to say, for a trust fund registered elsewhere, the manager needs to find another person or institution to manage it. However, for a trust fund registered in the British Virgin Islands, the trustee, manager and beneficiary can all be Barron himself.

What is the function of this?

Even if property is injected into such a trust fund before marriage, the ownership and control of the property are still owned by Barron himself, but this part of the property is already a trust fund with "public attributes", and its assets and subsequent income , have nothing to do with the joint property of husband and wife...

Just like in the original time and space, before Da Qiangzi married his milk tea sister, he put all his JD.com holdings into a trust fund registered in the British Virgin Islands, and his annual salary was set at 1 bucks.

Why did Milk Tea still need to do his best to protect their marriage after the incident where the great Qiangzi was jumped by the beautiful fairy?

This is the reason. Do you want her to get a divorce to divide Da Qiangzi's salary of 1 yuan a year?