Chapter 921 Success Again
"The Prime Minister and Mr. Hollande held talks with Mr. Barroso last week, and finally the EU made a statement..."
When Barron got the news from Dalula Riley, he was on his way from England to the United States.
Barroso is the current President of the European Commission. He once served as Prime Minister of Portugal and has served as President of the European Commission since 2004. He is now serving his second term and will complete his term at the end of next year.
Although the President of the European Commission is not like a normal head of government and does not have foreign policy powers, the power to command the military, or the power to raise taxes, within the EU, his power is still relatively large, especially for someone like Barroso. Having held this position for nearly ten years, it can be said that he has been able to influence many positions in the European Commission.
From the fact that Cameron and Hollande personally talked to Barroso about the merger and acquisition of Alstom's railway business, it can be seen that the two are really concerned about this matter.
After all, this matter determines the success or failure of Barron taking over the British High Speed Rail Line 2, which is of great significance to Cameron's administration.
At the same time, Alstom is a French company, and Hollande is very positive about its ability to become the world's largest rail group through mergers and acquisitions.
In the end, judging from the feedback from the EU, the probability that the EU will approve the merger plan of Alstom and Siemens' railway businesses is almost 0...
After all, once the two parties complete the merger, their market share in the railway signaling system alone will exceed 90% of the EU market. This is really unacceptable to the EU, which is very wary of monopolies.
As I said before, it is impossible for Siemens to give up the railway signaling business as its main business...
This also means that the merger of the two parties' railway businesses has basically been rejected.
But as a concession, the EU also stated that it would give the greatest tolerance to the merger of the two parties' railway businesses in Alstom's acquisition of Bombardier.
In other words, although the words are not sealed, the EU will not set up obstacles to the merger of Alstom and Bombardier's railway business.
"It looks like we can have some substantive discussions with Bombardier..."
"Yes, Your Highness the Duke, our acquisition team has arrived in Canada and is officially negotiating with Bombardier on the specific acquisition plan."
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After arriving in New York, Barron first celebrated the first birthday of their child Theodore with Ivanta.
Later, many people claimed that Barron TP had attracted much attention since his birth and was called the "billion-dollar baby"...
However, in comparison, Ivanta’s son Theodore TP has received more attention and can even be called a “trillion baby”…
It's just that Ivanta attaches great importance to protecting Theodore and never lets him appear on camera.
But with the same surname of TP, Theodore's background can be said to be more prominent than that of his younger uncle.
After all, if the TP family can be called a wealthy family, then Barron's family is now one of the top wealthy families in the world.
Not to mention the IC capital managed by Ivanta, the assets involved are ten times that of the entire TP Group. The assets she owns alone far exceed the entire TP family.
As for Barron, the TP family is far behind - this gap should be equivalent to the gap between an ordinary person and the richest man in his town.
"What have you been busy with lately? Honey."
After finally coaxing Theodore to sleep and leaving him under the care of a nanny, Barron returned to the bedroom, looked at Ivanta and smiled, and asked.
Ivanta stretched, then leaned into Barron's arms, rested her head on his broad shoulder, and said softly:
"There are always things to do. I just finished the Sinclair Group affairs and will leave them to the new CEO. Next, Twitter will prepare for the IPO and the team has selected some start-up companies. I will discuss it in the final Select a few investments from the shortlist - now these startups, even for Series A or Series B financing, do not need tens or millions of dollars in funding like they did three or four years ago..."
As the scale of IC Capital continues to expand, Ivanta naturally has more work to handle.
But fortunately, she is no longer the little girl who knew little about these technology and business matters when she was just in charge of IC Capital. Over the years, Ivanta's growth is visible to the naked eye.
In addition, she also learned a lot from Barron. For example, she also has a whole team of assistants to help her filter out the most important things from the arduous work, which greatly saves her the time to do it herself.
It can be said that one of the most important things for her next is Twitter's IPO.
After last year's Series E financing, Twitter's valuation has exceeded US$8 billion, and IC Capital still holds 32% of the company's shares and is its largest shareholder.
The IPO listing of such a company naturally attracted the participation of many Wall Street investment banks. However, for the initial valuation of approximately US$10 billion set by these investment banks for Twitter, Ivanta directly increased the valuation by 50% and requested Twitter's The IPO valuation cannot be less than $15 billion...
It can be said that her move did scare some investment banks.
But there are also those who are still optimistic about Twitter - it was finally confirmed that Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch will jointly serve as underwriters for Twitter's IPO.
It can be said that they are all "old friends". IC Capital is a major shareholder of Goldman Sachs, the British Fortune (BFT) Fund controlled by Barron is a major shareholder of JPMorgan Chase, and Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch is Barron's industry...
It is like this. Only when this kind of money-making opportunity is left to "our own people" can we form a closer alliance with each other.
According to the plan, Twitter will be officially listed in November this year. Now it has obtained the approval of the SEC and started the listing process.
According to Twitter's prospectus, they plan to issue 70 million common shares in this IPO, accounting for 10% of the total share capital after listing...
At that time, IC Capital's shareholding in Twitter will be reduced to 28.8%. Based on the valuation of only $15 billion, IC Capital's investment in this company is currently worth $4.32 billion...
What's more, Barron knows that the market value of Twitter on the day of its listing in the original time and space has exceeded $20 billion.
It can be said that IC Capital's investment in Twitter will be a great success again.
But the most important thing is the influence of Twitter in the American media and public opinion in the future.
You know, in Barron's previous life, Musk, the world's richest man at the time, only had the capital to influence American politics after acquiring Twitter.
