Chapter 700: Net of fish
Eric simply ignored the question of Gwyneth Paltrow, looked down at the documents in his hand and asked, "Did you not say that there was an audition today?"
Gwyneth Paltrow did not have any embarrassment. He looked up at Eric on the table and said: "Suddenly, the script is really terrible. If you don’t go, Eric, I heard you. "The Matrix" has already begun preparations. I have read this novel many times. Do you think there is a role that suits me?"
This woman is really feeling good about herself. ◎,
Eric smiled and said: "How is the heroine?"
Gwyneth Paltrow’s eyes lit up instantly: “Really?”
Eric shook his head without hesitation: "Fake."
Gwyneth Paltrow seemed to be not angry at all, and raised his hand and gently patted Eric's shoulder: "Eric, you are so bad."
There is still a lot of work to do in the hands, Eric has no time to marry a woman, not to mention a woman who has no feelings about herself. She is about to lose her patience and drive her away. The voice of Xiao Nizi is heard behind her: Kate, I can't think of you earlier than I am."
"Hey, Drew, good morning," Gwyneth Paltrow greeted Xiao Nizi.
Eric felt the **** on his back, turned his head and kissed him on the face that his head stretched out, and made a look without any trace.
Shantou smiled and released Eric. He stretched out Gregnet Paltrow, who was next to Eric. "Kate, let's go, let's have breakfast, Natasha is ready." It is."
Gwyneth Paltrow, although he did not want to leave, did not dare to refuse Drew’s invitation and could barely get up and walk away.
Quietly by the side, Eric’s attention was again transferred to the documents in his hand.
This is a targeted bond financing contract, and is the result of a recent lobbying by Chris and Irving Jacob.
The contract is for Firefly Investment to provide $300 million in targeted bond financing to ve zon Telecom to purchase cdma base station equipment and mobile communication network solutions from Qualcomm for a five-year bond period. The annual interest rate is 3%.
After paying huge licensing fees for mobile spectrum licenses, in addition to the at-t, which is not bad, other telecom operators are facing the shortage of funds without exception in the process of digitally upgrading the communication network. Firefly already owns 40% of Qualcomm shares. As the largest shareholder far beyond the shareholding of other shareholders, it has almost absolute control of Qualcomm.
The financing contract in hand is actually equivalent to ve zon's chip to the firefly to the cdma technology camp.
Although ve zon has already carried a huge debt of nearly 9 billion US dollars, but did not hesitate to reject the firefly's shareholding plan, this decision is not difficult to understand. For a company with a very promising future, the cost of equity financing is much higher than that of bond financing. Just like the Firefly Group, if the Firefly Group lacks money, Eric will also choose to issue bonds instead of introducing other shareholders to share fireflies. Future dividends. As long as ve zon has survived the difficult period of these years, after the completion of the mobile communication network, the operating conditions will soon improve, and huge debts will be slowly digested.
However, this contract also carries the meaning of robbery. Because he has already suffered huge debts, ve zon once again publicly financed, and the annual interest rate must be at least 6% to ensure the success of financing, but the annual interest rate of this targeted bond financing is only 3%. If you agree to this contract, only interest. One, fireflies lose $10 million a year, not to mention the $300 million in principal. If you invest elsewhere, it is not impossible to multiply several times in five years.
Eric didn't know how the original cdma technology in the spacetime was broken. But at this time, he could not refuse the contract. Chris just passed him on the phone, as long as he signed the contract, the tar zon, the second-largest telecom operator in North America, was pulled into the cdma camp. Almost equal to the effect of letting Qualcomm come back to life. As soon as the news is announced, Qualcomm's share price will at least increase by 100%. Eric is not too concerned about the surge in Qualcomm's share price, because Firefly will never easily sell Qualcomm stock in his hands. He is most concerned about the rapid promotion of cdma.
With this in mind, Eric remembered another thing Chris said on the phone, although the shareholding plan was rejected by zon. But the attitude of sp nt is not so determined.
Although sp nt realized huge profits last year, its too aggressive layout in the mobile communication business has caused widespread concern among investors. Most industry analysts believe that if sp nt builds the country on a large scale according to the established plan. Within the scope of the mobile communication network, huge upfront investment will cause the company to not generate any profit in the next three to five years. Even if the bet fails, the mobile communication industry does not reach the expected industrial scale. It may be because of the aggressive expansion strategy at this time into a bankruptcy dilemma. These factors have led to a significant reduction in the success rate of debt financing in sp days. No investors are willing to buy corporate bonds that may fall into bankruptcy in the next few years, and sp can only choose to raise funds for the issuance of stocks.
At a cocktail party in New York, Chris had contact with a director of Sp.nt, and the director disclosed to him that he could issue a 10% share of the total share capital to the fireflies, but the offer price was $1.6 billion. It is 60% higher than the current share price of sp. Of course, this price cannot be the final transaction price, but the firefly wants to reach this deal, and it is certainly impossible to pay a certain percentage of the premium. Eric is even more willing to absorb sp nt shares from the open market, but compared to Qualcomm even after the issuance of 30 million shares of the total share capital, sp nt's total share capital reached an astonishing 3.6 billion shares, 120 times that of Qualcomm. Moreover, most of the stockholders are foundations that do not easily sell stocks for the purpose of investment. It is difficult to imagine that they will become major shareholders through the absorption of the circulation market.
I thought, Eric wrote a series of numbers on his laptop next to him, facing the $300 million debt financing of zon zon, and acquiring sp nt stocks, at least 30% premium, $1.3 billion. This period of time has been brewing about the Cisco's overweight plan, which requires a much larger $2 billion in funding, just that. Together, it reached $3.6 billion.
In addition, Yahoo! Ceo Ian Gernier recently called by Erik to discuss some of Yahoo's management's views on the company's future development plans, if they follow their ideas for the next few years. Yahoo will also become a big money burner.
Even though the Firefly Group maintains an annual profit of $2 billion in the next few years, and Eric’s 73.7% shareholding in the company, his annual dividend is only $1.5 billion. Although there are several other extras, it is not enough to support these plans.
After a while, Eric can only make up his mind to take a step. If it doesn't work, compress the size of some plans.
"Eric, what are you thinking?" Xiao Nizi didn't know when, again appeared next to Eric, still with Gwyneth Paltrow.
"Nothing, some messy things," Eric vaguely replied, there are outsiders, and he won't be as casual as he usually gets, in case something is revealed. It is likely to cause unnecessary trouble.
Xiao Nizi didn't mind. From the ensuing Natasha, she took over the freshly brewed coffee and poured it into Eric. She said, "Eric, I went to the company. Will you leave today?"
Eric shook his head and said, "No, I will wait for you to come back."
"Then I will leave a Natasha to you, and there is something for her to do."
Eric smiled and said: "Don't you, take it with you. It's a bit strange to take them apart."
"Okay. There is a maid's phone call under the coffee table in the living room. They live in the nearby cold water canyon. You can call them to come over," Xiao Nizi said. Turning around and seeing Gwyneth Paltrow, who didn't move his footsteps, said: "Kate, let me go with you and take you to my company."
Realizing that there is an opportunity to be alone with Eric, how can Gwyneth Paltrow leave easily. Said: "Drew, let's go first, I will wait for myself to leave, I am going to Burbank, we are different."
"Oh, that's alright," Xiao Nizi nodded, and unscrupulously, in front of Gwyneth Paltrow's face, Eric squinted and squinted, and the twins had opened at the gate. The car went out.
After a burst of engine sound, there were only two people in the mansion, Eric and Gwyneth Paltrow.
"Eric, can I sit here?"
Gwyneth Paltrow said, sitting down next to him without waiting for him to answer.
Eric had some headaches, and Xiao Nizi was naughty, knowing that she didn't like the woman, or left her.
"Eric, the twins are called Natasha, very interesting," Gwyneth Paltrow quickly said nothing.
Eric replied casually: "My sister is Natasha. My sister's name is too long. It is still Russian. If everyone can't remember, they are used to calling Natasha."
"Oh," Gwyneth Paltrow seemed to be interested: "When they are together, how can they distinguish who is calling?"
"The two are the same. Why do you want to distinguish? When you are together, you can call Natasha. Your sister will promise."
"It's so interesting, if I can have such a pair of servants," Gwyneth Paltrow did not hide the envy of the tone.
Eric smiled and turned to look at Winnies Paltrow, but his heart flashed a mysterious thought, and he couldn’t help but look up and grab the thought.
"Seven sins".
Although he has been sorting out the films in memory recently, Eric found that he had forgotten this classic movie. Moreover, according to the information in the memory, "Seven Deadly Sins" was released in 1995, at least at this time should have begun to shoot.
However, the heroine is here, and the actor is still mixing the TV circle. Eric has never heard the message of "Seven Deadly Sins". If he does not see the heroine who is not strong in the movie, Ai Rick doesn't know when he can think of it again.
The "Seven Deadly Sins" in the original time and space, with its dark and desperate plot, caused a sensation when it was launched. It received a $300 million box office at a cost of 30 million U.S. dollars worldwide, and it was once the new line of film industry. The iconic work of the first-line film company.
Gwyneth Paltrow saw Eric inexplicably look at himself a few times, his expression was slightly moving, his tone was instead held up, saying: "Eric, what do you look at?"
"Nothing," Eric said, picking up the phone next to him: "Sorry, Gwyneth, I have to make a few calls."
Gwyneth Paltrow’s expression was a bit resentful: “Yes... want me to avoid it?”
Eric nodded, but remembered that she had just helped me think of a missing web movie, Eric was too embarrassed to be so harsh, saying: "You can go to the living room to watch TV for a while."
Gwyneth Paltrow felt that Eric's tone softened, but it was very clever and no longer entangled, and got up and walked toward the villa.
Eric took the phone and thought about it for a while, and dialed the phone to the head of the new line movie to ask if there was a screenwriter named Andrew Kevin Walker.
The big boss personally called, and the person in charge of the new line film industry certainly did not dare to find out the basics, but just did his duty to follow the instructions of Eric to inquire about relevant information.
Eric quickly got the information of Andrew Kevin Walker. The screenwriter already has a work that has already been released, called "Six Degrees of Thriller". In addition, Eric also watched smoothly. The name of the Seven Deadly Sins.
The script of "Seven Deadly Sins" did not deviate from the original track and still fell into the hands of the new line. However, the person in charge of the new line has been hesitant about this project because the script is too dark, and even how many purchase points can not be found, plus I have not been able to find a suitable director, so I have been shelved. Moreover, the new line originally had a budget of only $8 million for this script, and wanted to make a low-cost cult film. Therefore, this small and inconspicuous project simply could not fall to Eric.
Eric also knows that as his status improves, he will certainly not see much of what he could have encountered. This is something that cannot be changed. After all, he has only so much energy and cannot do everything.
The person in charge of the new line was asked to fax the script and let the other party contact David Finch directly to see him. Eric then hung up.
Gwyneth Paltrow had any thoughts on watching TV. He had been looking around in the villa and saw that Eric had hung up and couldn’t wait to come out.
I came to Eric and saw the fax machine on the long table making a squeaking noise. (To be continued.)