Rebirth of England.

"According to the information we have received, the FBI in the United States and the Serious Fraud Office in the United Kingdom have both launched investigations into Mike Lynch..."

Today, after Barron had breakfast, Nigel Inkster came to his residence to report to him the latest news about the lawsuit between HP and Mike Lynch.

As mentioned before, last year, Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur known as the "British Bill Gates", sold Autonomy, a technology company he founded that used a unique algorithm to search for information, to HP, which was looking to transform itself, for a high price of $110 billion.

Some time ago, HP alleged that after an internal investigation, it was found that Lynch and other senior executives such as Stephen Chamberlain, who was then the company's vice president of finance, used means to artificially raise the company's valuation, causing HP to suffer huge financial losses.

HP immediately wrote down its market value by $88 billion, mainly due to the losses caused by this acquisition.

In fact, when HP announced the acquisition of Autonomy for US$110 billion, it caused an uproar in the IT industry, and it was generally believed that the price was too high.

Of course, the acquisition price and premium can be high or low, depending on its value to the acquiring company.

If there is a particular need for this technology or business, it is normal to offer a high premium for the acquisition.

But after the acquisition, whether it can really meet the acquirer's expectations is uncertain - in many cases, there are only a few acquisitions that are truly worth the money.

In this acquisition by HP, Autonomy's management must have convinced HP that the company had great potential in order to obtain such a high acquisition price of US$110 billion.

As for whether Mike Lynch and his team were involved in any fraudulent activity...

Judging from the results of Barron’s previous life, the lawsuit lasted for more than ten years, and the American side finally ruled that Mike Lynch and others did not commit fraud, which means that the FBI and the UK Serious Fraud Office did not have a definite investigation result.

And Mike Lynch's legal team is also very powerful.

Earlier, Digital Future Investments, a subsidiary of Caesars Fund, invested in Autonomy and held a 25% stake in it, which also enabled them to obtain US$27.5 billion in the cash acquisition by HP, which can be said to be a huge profit.

Therefore, although Barron did not have much personal involvement with Mike Lynch before, he would not refuse to help with the troubles they are facing now.

As for the "physical elimination" that was later directed at him, that was not within Barron's consideration.

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Speaking of which, in the field of financial investment, the companies currently controlled by Barron, including DS Group, Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch and William Weber Capital, are still in a honeymoon period with American capital represented by Vanguard Group and BlackRock Group.

They have cooperated in many areas - as the world's largest asset management companies, they inevitably hold shares in each other's companies.

Especially Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch, the scale of funds they currently manage has exceeded 3.5 trillion US dollars. Although it is not as large as BlackRock Group - after all, BlackRock Group has received strong support from the United States and manages most of their domestic pension funds and public funds, the scale of funds under its management has exceeded 5 trillion US dollars!

However, Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch is already among the top three in the world in terms of the size of funds under management.

The financial industry does make money, and it can be said that most of Barron’s current profits come from his financial investments - and American capital is reaping the benefits of the financial industry around the world.

Or more broadly speaking, it has become difficult to separate Barron's financial business from its capital on Wall Street - is Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch a British company or an American company?

For this kind of financial capital, there is no specific concept of country. In order to make money, they can go anywhere in the world.

But at the same time, Barron is also very clear-headed and knows that in addition to financial investment, specific manufacturing and other real industries are also very important.

Barron is still in a honeymoon period with capital groups such as Vanguard and BlackRock. This is because although there is friction between him and the other parties in the real industry, the interests involved are not on the same order of magnitude as their cooperation in finance, and are therefore within the range that both parties can tolerate.

For example, among Barron’s other industries, the only ones that can generate stable profits are basic industries such as energy and electricity…

Internet companies like Woaw, although highly valued, need to invest their profits into R&D and expansion; the same is true for companies like O2 Telecom and Argos Retail Group...

Even the British Motor Group is still at the stage where it needs to use the funds obtained from the financial sector for investment...

Therefore, at present, in the real economy, the only companies that compete with American capital are Alstom and Honor Electronics.

These conflicts of interest are still within the limits that both sides can tolerate.

But as Barron continues to acquire and expand the real economy, I believe that sooner or later, the conflict of interest between him and the other party will exceed the limit of tolerance, and a confrontation will break out...

It may even be that this time will come sooner - because not only in Barron's case, but with China's industrial upgrading, the lucrative high-tech industry will become increasingly crowded.

On the other hand, within America, there are two major interest groups: the Jewish group and the Anglo-Saxon group.

Prior to this, the Jewish group held a major share in the financial and media sectors, while the Anglo-Saxon group controlled the political, military and energy sectors...

Therefore, in the financial field, the Anglo-Saxon group needs to cooperate with the Jewish group to obtain business benefits.

But after Barron appeared, with his orthodox Anglo-Saxon background, he entered the Wall Street financial industry and provided the Anglo-Saxon group in the United States with another option for cooperation. For example, American political families such as the Kennedy family and the Bush family began to cooperate more and more deeply with him in the financial field.

Although the current scale of cooperation between the two parties is not that large in the entire Wall Street financial field.

However, these collaborations are still in the process of continuous development and expansion, and will inevitably arouse the vigilance of Jewish capital.

The general trend of the world, the long-term division must be united, and the long-term unity must be divided.

This can also be applied between these capitals, so Barron has already begun preparing for future conflicts and is waiting for that day to come.