Under the Bank of China Building, the night view is bright. The Huangpu River is sparkling, as if there is invisible wealth flowing in the river.
Magic city!
Kang Wenfeng smiled and shook hands with Jing Gao, "Mr. Jing, congratulations. See you later!" He would later attend Uber China's acquisition meeting as a shareholder representative.
Jing Gao smiled and said: "Thank you, Mr. Kang, for the introduction. I'll invite Mr. Kang for tea another day. Goodbye."
Kang Wenfeng watched Jing Gao leave with his beautiful female assistant in a car and leave in the night. CITIC Securities invested in Uber China because of its potential in the travel field. Even if Phoenix Fund bids 9 billion, it is estimated that there will not be many small shareholders who will withdraw money by then.
On the contrary, Uber, which continued to provide blood to Uber China, felt that it was difficult and did not want to continue to entangle and fight with Didi.
Didi just completed its Series F financing in June not long ago. Apple invested US$1 billion. This shocked Uber’s Kalanick. Uber has always had a good relationship with Apple, and Apple has never expressed the idea of investing in Didi before.
This is what Emil Michael told him.
In China’s venture capital circle, there is a BAT round before listing. Bat refers to Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba. These three giants are basically at the top of the venture capital circle! They have a lot of cash and strong capital.
In the United States, Apple is also a giant with huge amounts of cash. So Kalanick is determined to quit.
However, now there is a "warrior" to take over! The battle between Uber China and Didi will continue.
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Jing Gao and Guan Yujia's cars did not go to the hotel, but directly to the luxurious residence in the center of the North Bund: Platinum Bay Mansion.
Xiao Qiao helped Jing Gao buy 4 high-rise residences here. They are the 30th and 31st floors respectively. Two units on one floor. The unit price is about 170,000 per square meter, and the selling price of a single unit is about 60 million.
This is a typical river view room. You can see the Huangpu River, the Bund, and the Oriental Pearl Tower from your home. Although it is only 33 stories high, there is a luxurious yacht club downstairs, and next to it is the five-star Banyan Tree International Resort Hotel. There is no obstruction, and the view is the best in the entire Magic City.
Xiao Qiao and his assistants live next door and downstairs on the 31st floor. Jing Gao and Guan Yujia came back, and Xiao Qiao and others were already waiting in the living room of Jing Gao's room.
Idaka came in and announced: "I have reached a preliminary agreement with Kalanick, the chairman of Uber, and he has accepted my offer of US$9 billion. I will go to the Bank of China Tower to discuss in detail via video link tomorrow morning."
"Wow."
Everyone stood up and applauded, extremely excited. They came overnight on Monday night. There are rumors in Shanghai that Didi is going to merge with Uber China. Now it’s time to seize the food from the tiger’s mouth and succeed in one fell swoop!
Guan Yujia looked at Jing Gao's back with admiration. She was still thinking about the confrontation in the Bankers Club.
Emil Michael, Uber’s senior vice president of operations, initially looked down upon them. Look down on Mr. Jing who can't speak. and after? Not only was he so shocked that he shook off his cigar ashes, but he also complimented Mr. Jing enthusiastically.
Because Mr. Jing showed his strength and power!
Jinggao pressed his hand downwards and said: "We have to make a plan to acquire Uber China overnight, including the details. This requires everyone to get busy."
"No problem, Mr. Jing."
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Not only was the Phoenix Fund team busy overnight, but Uber’s headquarters was also busy. On the morning of the next day, Jing Gao took Xiao Qiao and Guan Yujia to the Bank of China Building for negotiations.
Uber holds 88.5% of Uber China's shares, and the remaining investors who provided a total of US$200 million in AB's two rounds of financing account for 11.5%.
The final acquisition plan is: Phoenix Fund pays $7.2 billion to Uber to acquire 80% of Uber China’s equity. And obtain Uber China’s brand, business, data and other assets.
Phoenix Fund will exclusively enjoy the Chinese trademark and brand "Uber" globally and will be decoupled from the uber brand. The new Uber company will have the authority to develop its own ride-hailing software called "Uber". (The authority to modify the code has always been in the United States).
At the same time, Phoenix Fund will invest US$1 billion in Uber to acquire 1.47% of Uber’s shares. mutual holdings.
At the same time, legal experts' advice to Phoenix Fund is to set it up as a common VoE framework for "Chinese concept stocks" to facilitate listing in the United States in the future.
On Sunday, Emil Michael came forward to organize investors who accounted for 11.5% of Uber China to come to the Bankers Club for a meeting to complete changes to Uber (China)'s board of directors and articles of association.
Its investors are: HNA Group, CITIC Securities, China Taiping, China Life, Guangzhou Automobile Group, Vanke, Minsheng Bank, China Broadband Industry Fund, and Baidu. These are all well-known companies in the country.
The meeting was held at four o'clock in the afternoon, followed by a small buffet reception.
In the banquet hall, waiters from the Bankers Club shuttled around to provide services.
Qiao Shuang wore a beautiful white evening dress and kept talking to people. She felt like her face would freeze with laughter tonight.
Although the actual controller of Phoenix Fund is Mr. Jing, as the chairman of Uber (China), she is about to take charge of a US$7 billion company, so she still has the cards she should have. Moreover, most of the people attending the Uber (China) shareholder meeting today are not the core executives of famous companies. After all, the proportion of investment is not high.
As soon as she finished talking about a topic, she saw Xia Rongxi coming in at the door of the banquet hall, led by her assistant.
Xia Rongxi also received the invitation and went directly to Jinggao with a very beautiful female companion by his side.
"Miss Wang, excuse me." Jing Gao was chatting with Wang Hanjun, the second princess of HNA Group. She came to attend the meeting on behalf of HNA today. She and Xia Rongxi walked aside and waved to the waiter to bring three glasses of red wine.
Xia Rongxi was in his forties and still looked a little ugly in his expensive, crisp suit. He smiled warmly and said, "Mr. Jing, thank you for inviting me to this buffet." He just looked around and there were several Boss!
Jing Gao smiled and nodded, raising his glass, "I want to thank you. Please." Inviting Xia Rongxi over was meant to reward merit. Anyone he meets here can help his career take off.
Xia Rongxi smiled awkwardly. A few days ago, Jing Gao asked him to help contact Kalanick, and he was actually somewhat confident. There were definitely difficulties, but he didn't try his best. As a result, Jing Gao met and negotiated directly.
Xia Rongxi introduced the female companion beside him and said: "Mr. Jing, this is Ms. Ouyang Wan. She does finance and investment here in Shanghai. It was her who got the news."
Ouyang Wan is of medium height, 1.66 meters tall. She looks graceful and graceful wearing hollow crystal high heels. But there is no trace of her age from her charming and dignified face. Wearing an orange one-shoulder evening dress with large lapel. Rich, thin waist, jade skin. Revealing her stunning beauty. A great beauty like a stunner.
Ouyang Wan stretched out her hand gracefully, shook Jing Gao's hand lightly, and praised: "Mr. Jing went to the magic city alone, as sharp as a swordsman, and quickly took over the equity of Uber China. Those of us who are investors are secretly in admiration. , breathtaking. Mr. Jing, I toast you. I’ve done it, you can do whatever you want.”
Praising a beautiful woman always makes you feel happy.
Jing Gao finally figured it out. Xia Rongxi is actually in a subordinate position. This Ouyang Wan didn't do his best to help at first. He was probably thinking about raising the price. Therefore, Xia Rongxi and Ouyang Wan actually came to him to surrender and apologize.
Seeing Ouyang Wan raising her head boldly and draining half the glass of red wine, her eyes were charming and clear when she looked at him, with the aura of someone who has mastered Taoism. The last time Jing Gao felt this way was with Jiang Meifu.
But this Ouyang Wan is obviously much more powerful. No wonder he can become a "well-informed" person in the business world of Shanghai.
Jing Gao raised his glass with a smile and drank the red wine, "Thank you, Ms. Ouyang."
Xia Rongxi toasted Jing again and said with a smile: "Mr. Jing, announcing this news tomorrow will be a bombshell. I don't know how many people's jaws will be shocked."
Jing Gao laughed and patted Xia Rongxi on the shoulder, "It must be known to the public after all." Ignoring Xia Rongxi who eagerly asked him to help introduce the guests, he walked to another circle. Vanke's Wang Shitou was toasting in the crowd.
This is actually very strange.
Vanke and Baoneng are fighting fiercely. How could he have time to appear here. Vanke's headquarters is in Shenzhen.
