Chapter 815 Concept

Regarding Alstom Group, in Barron's previous life, the most well-known event was the suppression of the company by the United States...

In the original time and space, on April 14, 2014, Pierucci, the vice president of international sales of Alstom, was arrested in the United States, and then three more executives were arrested by the United States. They were all accused of commercial bribery and were imprisoned in the American prison for serious criminals. In the process, they proposed a sky-high compensation of 800 million US dollars. If the compensation was not paid, the president of Alstom would be arrested directly.

The decision to arrest Alstom's senior executives actually originated from the Anti-Corruption Act of the United States...

In fact, all business giants, the behavior of snatching orders is actually not clean, especially companies like Alstom. In order to obtain international orders, they once bribed local senior officials in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Bahamas and Indonesia in the form of consulting fees, and finally obtained orders of 4 billion US dollars, and part of the bribes went to the account of Alstom's American subsidiary, so this gave the Americans an opportunity.

Even some giants in the United States, such operations are very normal.

But the background at that time was that the American industrial giant General Electric (GE) was seeking to acquire the most profitable power department of the Alstom Group, and they also faced competition from Siemens.

So facing the accusations of the United States, Alstom, which is listed in the United States, had no choice but to admit defeat. After all, if it was blacklisted by the American market, it would undoubtedly be sentenced to economic death, and the compensation of 800 million US dollars was not low. Therefore, they could only sell the most profitable power department to General Electric of the United States for 12.4 billion euros to avoid accusations. It was called a fair and just commercial acquisition, but only they knew whether it was fair.

Therefore, although in Ashley Weber's analysis, General Electric would not pose too much threat to their acquisition, it was just that she had not encountered the United States using such "outside tricks" to force Alstom.

However, Barron's advantage now is that, first of all, he was more than two years ahead of GE's acquisition of Alstom in the original time and space. At this time, GE had not yet focused more on the energy and power field. Therefore, even after Barron launched the acquisition of Alstom, GE intended to enter the competition, but it might not use such a fierce method.

In addition, he still had time to avoid some operations of Alstom being caught by the United States, so it is likely to be accused by the United States, which can be avoided.

But in any case, the acquisition of a company like Alstom is not achieved overnight. Both Barron and Ashley's William Weber Capital need to do a lot of work.

In particular, it will take some time for France to accept the reality of the acquisition of Alstom Group.

For this reason, under Ashley's arrangement, Barron specially met with French President Sarkozy in private. As for the specific content of the conversation between the two, it is unknown to outsiders.

At least after this, France will not set up obstacles to Barron's acquisition if Barron can guarantee that there will be no large-scale layoffs after the acquisition is completed, and that Alstom's headquarters will remain in France and its main business will not be relocated.

Next, the Global Industrial Investment (GII) Fund reached an agreement with the French Bouygues Group to purchase 25% of Alstom Group's shares from them for 3 billion euros.

In the original time and space, General Electric's initial bid for Alstom Group was less than 10 billion euros, but later faced competition from Siemens and raised the price to 12.8 billion euros.

But it was already 2014, and Alstom Group's stock price had rebounded significantly compared to the subprime mortgage crisis.

Now the GII Fund is acquiring Alstom Group with a total value of about 12 billion euros. In fact, compared to its current market value, it has a premium of more than 25%, which is not low.

This is also the reason why Bouygues Group was able to quickly reach an agreement to sell Alstom Group's shares. After all, their investment in this company has been trapped for several years. Now they have not seen a positive trend in Alstom Group. Being able to withdraw the funds in it at a good price is enough for Bouygues Group to satisfy them.

After acquiring 25% of Alstom Group's shares, GII Fund, together with William Weber Capital, launched a comprehensive acquisition offer for Alstom Group, preparing to privatize Alstom Group at a total price of 12 billion euros.

This news immediately made Alstom the focus of media reports again.

However, at this time, the acquisition is still in progress, but in fact, Barron has reached a tacit understanding with all parties on the key issues.

Therefore, he also left France, which was the focus of much attention, at the right time, leaving the opportunity to stand in front of the stage to Finn Hudson, CEO of GII Fund, and Ashley of William Weber Capital.

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"Regarding Motorola Mobility, those adjustments have been planned in detail, and I don't need to pay too much attention to them. Now I have handed over many daily tasks of IC Capital to the team..."

In the manor on Long Island, Barron walked with Ivanta in the garden and listened to her talk about the work arrangements.

After leaving France, he returned to London to deal with some things, and then flew directly to New York.

After all, it is now the end of July, and there is still more than a month before Ivanta's due date. Barron will also stay in the United States during this period to accompany her.

It can be clearly seen that Ivanta's belly is already very big. As for the son who is about to be born - it has been confirmed that Ivanta is pregnant with a boy this time. After discussing with Barron, the two decided to name him Theodore TP.

Yes, this child will take the mother's surname, which is also to establish Ivanta's "independent and self-reliant" strong woman personality in public.

Anyway, for Barron, his children have taken the mother's surname many times before - in fact, for him, even Cavendish, his surname in this life, is not taken too seriously.

From a psychological point of view, the most important period for shaping a person's worldview is childhood - which means that for his soul, these concepts have been formed in the previous life.

Rebirth as the Duke of England, for Barron, means more opportunities. He can do corresponding things for his current identity and interests, but it does not mean that in his heart, he completely agrees that he is a "Duke of England" or even an "Anglo-Saxon white man"!

Everything is just for the sake of interests.

This is his truest thought in his heart. It is not about family or race. What he cares more about is the inheritance of his ideals and spirit.

In the eyes of others, he is a person with very open ideas and is not particularly stubborn and traditional.

Just like the decision he made for his child with Ivanta, it also comforted Ivanta to a great extent and made up for the regret of not being able to give her the name of marriage.