Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 798 Investment in Hardware

In conjunction with this operation by high-level Washington officials in Yugoslavia, in addition to an optional commission, the greatest benefit of the Westeros system is to further link its own private military forces with the US government.

The US-based Military Consulting and Security Services (MCSS), which is controlled by the Westeros family, is already a CIA signing partner.

After this operation, Ukraine’s Ukrainian Frontline Military Service Company (UFMS) also achieved this goal in fact.

With this important identity, Simon’s private military power can avoid many unnecessary troubles.Hey, one less!Like to invite everyone to collect: () Zhai Shuyuan updates the fastest.

Listening to Celia Miller’s report on Saturday morning, the afternoon time was reserved for the two political leaders, Joseph Schrap and Paul Spitz.

After last year’s mid-term elections, not counting some of the hidden layouts in the entrainment and the political lobbying departments of the subsidiaries, the head of the relatively bright political field of the Westeros family was divided into two, and Joseph Schlapp was mainly responsible for Washington’s political trends and bills lobby, and Paul Spitz is responsible for implementing the Westeros system’s intensive farming plan in the US states, intending to infiltrate the Westeros family’s political influence into the US states and counties in the coming years. Even each specific constituency.By the way, it's one less!Zhai Shuyuan, update the latest chapter as soon as possible!

Starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting time for each person is two hours.

The main purpose is to resolve in person some issues that are not suitable for discussion on the phone and email that may be subject to eavesdropping.

After showing a muscle through last year's mid-term elections, Simon now has to do his best to keep a low profile and keep a low profile.

Whether they were directly funded by the Westeros family last year or indirectly benefited from the sniper plan, in addition to some bills that have been promoted earlier, Simon has not mentioned any new requirements to them in the past few months and fulfilled them as much as possible The Westero family, who expressed their views to several bigwigs in Washington early this year, was only planning to protect themselves.Japan, I can’t read it, and I’m missing!One second to remember, Zhai Shuyuan ().

With so many benefits, Simon will not be stupid enough to deliberately find something to show the Westeros system's sense of presence in Washington.

After finishing his afternoon work, Simon drove to Manhattan by helicopter.

Tonight, I will attend a reception at the Lauder family, mainly to celebrate the upcoming launch of the Estee Lauder company on the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the month.

As the world's largest top cosmetics giant in memory, Simon began to pay attention to Estee Lauder very early, and in 1991 through the Apollo management company channel with 250 million US dollars of funds to obtain a 10% stake in Estee Lauder.In recent years, Estee Lauder has also had a lot of cooperation with the Westeros system, and the interests of both parties are very closely related.

Simon initially hoped that Melisandre would take over 10% of Estee Lauder's shares in Apollo's hands.

However, after some subsequent operations, the Apollo Management Company’s sub-funds holding Estee Lauder’s shares were all replaced by Westeros’ own capital, which was actually completely controlled by Westeros. 10% of the shares could not be Sophia was not interested in getting much of Estee Lauder's right to speak, and Simon did not intend to do more.

With the continued recovery of the North American stock market and the successful expansion of Estee Lauder in the past few years, after starting the IPO last year, Estee Lauder’s final IPO valuation reached US$4.3 billion, the number of shares issued accounted for 15% of the total share capital, and raised funds of US$650 million, of which Half belongs to the sale of shares of the Estee Lauder family, and half belongs to additional fundraising for future corporate development.

Based on this IPO valuation, within four years, Apollo Management’s initial $250 million investment has increased by 72%.

Moreover, this is just the beginning.

The industry is generally optimistic about Estee Lauder’s development prospects,

Because of optimism, Apollo Management’s sub-fund, which is completely affiliated with Westeros, will continue to participate in Estee Lauder’s IPO subscription, and will still maintain 10% of the shares after the listing.The Estee Lauder family has taken care of this company very well. Simon will not try to pursue control of this company, but in the future, he will continue to increase his holdings.

Arriving in Manhattan, Simon first had a dinner with several heads of the Westero Building project and discussed the construction progress of the building until seven o'clock and arrived at the party site on time.The party was held in the luxury house of the Lauder family in the Upper East Side. The guests were basically celebrities on Wall Street and the fashion world, and most of them knew Simon.

After chatting with Ronald Lauder and his wife, the head of the Lauder family, Simon entered the party hall on the first floor of the villa and immediately attracted a lot of attention.

The first to be greeted was Irene Lauder, the daughter of Ronald Lauder.

The two sides also had a dew marriage, and it was the first time for the girl at that time, but the two did not contact them a few times since then.

The young girl who had just graduated from college when she first met her is now obviously much more stable. The original temperament is more demure and elegant, and she is holding a young man's arm, obviously a boyfriend.

Shaking hands with Simon in a generous manner, Irene Lauder introduced again: "Simon, this is my fiancé Eric Sinterhof."

Simon shook hands with the young man, and accidentally noticed that Irene Lauder still had something in her eyes... well, probably something that should be expected, and he smiled and complimented very well: "The two of you are really good, bless all of you."

Eric Hinterhof was probably the same age as Simon, and he did not seem to be restrained in front of him. He thanked him with a smile, but he soon showed his feet, obviously anxiously introducing him and Erin Lauder as university classmates. After many years of cultivation, Barbara finally wanted to show that the relationship between the two was very stable.

Simon pretended not to notice the small details of Erin Lauder's slightly frowned, and chatted with the two, saw Qu Gaofu appeared nearby, beckoned at the girl, and naturally grabbed her as she approached The slender waist of the baby-faced supermodel raised a toast to both Erin Lauder and headed to Jon Kohin, the head of Goldman Sachs who had nodded to him not far away. The meeting room has just been seen.

Jon Kohin is the new chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs last year, succeeding Robert Rubin and Stephen Friedman who left.

Simon also knows that Jon Koshin will not sit in this position for too long, and no surprise, next year will give the CEO position to another famous Goldman Sachs executive Henry Paulson in Simon’s memory. , Only one title of chairman, and it still can not be linked to a few years.

Of course, this does not prevent Simon from talking and laughing with each other.

The guy who can climb to the top of the pyramid on Wall Street, no matter his personal strength or identity background, no one will be simple.

On the other side, when Simon walked away, Erin Lauder was about to walk to the other side, noticing that her fiancé was staring at the slim figure beside a guy, and immediately teased: "Is it good-looking?"

Eric Hinterhof was taken aback by the news, and quickly withdrew his gaze, and explained flatly to Erin Lauder: "I just, it seems, isn't Westero married?"

Erin Lauder still stared at each other: "Yeah, so, do you envy you?"

Eric Hinterhof quickly shook his head: "Of course not, Irene, I only love you one, forever."

He stretched out his hand and wanted to hold the fiancee's waist.

I wanted to avoid it and realized that this was a public event. After all, the two were already engaged. After refusing, the fiancé might not be allowed to come to Taiwan. Irene Lauder still let him hug him, and he did not forget to warn: "Remind you, Erie Krishnamurti, I absolutely will not tolerate this kind of thing, not even once."

Eric Hinterhof said without hesitation: "I assure you, Irene."

Erin Lauder only let her fiancé pass, but still quietly glanced at the back of a guy not far away, secretly shattered in her heart, the wicked guy with a fancy heart.

Simon doesn’t know Irene Lauder’s thoughts, and is talking to Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Kohin about the upcoming $20 billion government bond issued by the Mexican government, which was used to solve the Mexican economy with US support after the Mexican Peso crisis last year. Troubled bonds.

Of course, this is a bailout that can only be obtained after Mexico has signed a series of unequal treaties, so it has considerable repayment guarantees.

Robert Rubin, the former head of Goldman Sachs, had just been promoted from the president’s assistant economic policy to finance minister at the beginning of the year, and directly used his power to hand over the issuance of the bonds to Goldman Sachs.

All in all, this kind of operation is exactly the same as that of Jon Kohin's successor Henry Paulson during the original time and space subprime mortgage crisis.

Simon does not have any opinions on this. The Westeros system will not be involved in investment banking in the short term. The reason for this is mainly because the Black Rock Asset Management Company, which has hundreds of billions of dollars of assets under Cersei Capital, belongs to various types of bonds. Of the best quality buyers.

Investment banks are responsible for issuing stock bonds and funds buying stock bonds. This is the basic process for the operation of US financial products.

Investment banks and funds therefore have various interests.

There is a good investment opportunity between investment banks and funds that are closely related. Investment banks will definitely think of each other in the first place. Similarly, sometimes investment banks need fund assistance, such as the need to take over some stocks and bonds that cannot be sold, and they also need the relevant funds. .Overall, this is a relationship of mutual benefit and help.

After many years of cooperation, the relationship between Goldman Sachs on Wall Street and Morgan Stanley and Cersei Capital is roughly this relationship, and a first Boston can be added in the future.

Lehman Brothers, who had the opportunity to achieve close cooperation, had long been forgotten by Simon.

It wasn't until Bill Spurt and Grace Spurt came over to say hello that Simon stopped talking to Jon Kohin.

Estee Lauder’s IPO is very small, at least it is not worth mentioning in front of the Igret IPO, so the Goldman Sachs family is enough to eat. This time there is no room for the first Boston to intervene. Bill Spurt is with his wife. Come by.

Grace’s client Qu Gove signed a make-up endorsement with Estée Lauder last year. According to Grace’s private statement, this is the result of the scramble for brands such as Revlon and Maybelline. Qu Gove’s makeup is baby face in light makeup The "Lovely Baby", once painted with heavy makeup, immediately turned into a stunning dark loli, coupled with the rising popularity of girls, it is the best candidate for make-up products.

Not only that, Grace’s new media operations department under Elite’s trial signed a $5 million online marketing contract this year after trial cooperation with Estee Lauder.

Simon valued Estee Lauder's point is to dare to try new things and keep pace with the times.

In my memory, Estee Lauder kept up with the trend and smashed more than 80% of her annual marketing budget online, and achieved very good results. Therefore, even when many brands such as Revlon are almost gone, they still remain. Maintained a long-term strong growth.

Grace always keeps a proper distance with Simon in front of others, knowing that this is a woman's consideration for herself, Simon is also very cooperative, and also actively asked about the operation status of the new media department, and greeted the guests at the Ronald Lauder couple After joining the conversation, he provided many suggestions for the marketing cooperation between the two parties on the Internet platform.

Everyone chatted warmly, and it was already more than eight o'clock.

Drinking a few glasses of red wine in a row, Simon had to temporarily interrupt the conversation, and apologized to go to the bathroom.

Obviously in order to show the importance to Simon, a distinguished guest, Ronald Lauder did not ask the waiter to take Simon to the common toilet for the guests on the first floor, but instead grabbed the daughter who didn't know when to come over and let her take Simon upstairs.

Before Simon refused, Erin Lauder made a polite gesture very politely.

The two went upstairs together, and just turned the corner of the stairs that was not visible to the guests downstairs. A girl who seemed to have endured for a long time no longer pretended to be a lady. There were some small questions in her tone: "Mr. Westeros, you But it can really be disguised as if nothing happened to us."

Simon followed slightly behind the girl, feeling the good smell from Eileen Lauder and the arrogant tone when she returned to the night when the girl was probably a girl. She smiled and said, "I think this is right The respect of an engaged lady, isn't it?"

Erin Lauder paused, snorted, and seemed a little unwilling: "But, you took my first time."

Simon said: "This is my honor."

Erin Lauder said again: "I mean, then, you haven't contacted me anymore, and you have to take the initiative to get together."

Simon explained: "You know, I'm married."

Erin Lauder pouted: "This excuse is really bad. Just now, someone is hugging a girl who is not his wife. And, Mr. Westeros, I've increasingly found that you are in the circle. Notorious."

"So, I took the initiative to stay away from you, you are a good girl."

"Why doesn't it sound like a compliment?"

"I promise, absolutely," Simon said, seeing Erin Lauder continue up the stairs and reached the fourth floor of the five-story mansion, and asked, "Are we going to the rooftop?"

Erin Lauder also found something wrong, it was enough on the second floor.However, when Simon said this, he suddenly couldn't help but teasing: "You want to be on the rooftop...that, it's really dirty."

"..."

Aware of Simon's depression, he finally won a trick. Erin Lauder slightly lifted her chin and hesitated a little under her feet. Instead of going up, he took Simon through the corridor to the door of a room. There was a slight hesitation, and the door opened.

Simon just glanced into the room and knew that it was Erin Lauder’s bedroom, but he didn’t stop and walked in calmly while complimenting, "Your room is really good."

Erin Lauder also thought that the man could take the initiative to ignore this, seeing him break, but it was not good to change the room temporarily, stood at the door and pointed in the direction of the bathroom, and suddenly remembered, could not help but ask: "You are... ...That."

Simon paused and probably understood it, laughing: "Of course, girl, you are so'dirty'."

Simon just said this subconsciously. The English word "dirty" doesn't have too accurate adjectives, so he casually used a "Dirty", which is the same word as "Dirty" just before Irene Lauder.

But, "Dirty" in English also has too much meaning.

For example, indecent.

Erin Lauder was obviously misunderstood, and she was immediately unhappy. She just said that Simon'Dirty', this guy, how could you describe her in reverse.So subconsciously stretched out to hold the man's shirt, facing Simon's doubtful eyes, he could not help but hide slightly, and turned back again, and said aggressively: "You apologize to me."

Simon helplessly raised his hands slightly to surrender: "Well, I apologize."

Eileen Lauder felt Simon's disloyal tone. She gripped the man's hand and tightened her eyes. She continued to stare at her, seeming to be dissatisfied, seeming to be tangled, and seemingly eager to try.

Simon waited for a moment, put down his raised hands, one of them leaned over, caught the girl's chin slightly, and bowed his head to kiss.

However, in less than ten minutes, the two went downstairs.

Rejoining the entertainment, because the time is not long, neither Eileen Lauder's parents or the girl's fiance did not notice anything unusual, but Grace looked at Simon with a meaningful look.

At the party that started at seven o'clock in the evening, Simon only stayed for two hours, and left after nine o'clock. By the way, he took away Qu Gove from the envious eyes of some other models in the fashion circle who were present at the same time.

The next day is Sunday.

Still unable to relax.

After the New Year, Chen Qing and her two daughters returned from the other side of the ocean. After this period of time, they came up with an investment plan in the hardware field, mainly about the VCD industry. Simon agreed to talk with the two women in the morning.