hollywood angel investor

the next morning

When Yan Ruxin got up, she found that Marcos was making breakfast in the kitchen.

The tall and muscular man is wearing funny pink shorts, with a serious face and cold eyes, but his movements are smooth and homely.

He was half-naked and wearing a floral apron, and the sunlight poured into the window and sprinkled on him, creating a special light and shadow effect.

This picture is so damn sexy!

People can't help being wolfish, and want to pounce on it, touch it twice, and take a few more bites.

If this scene appeared in any other corner of the "unscrupulous" United States of America, at this time...

There's a good chance the goblin wars have already begun.

pity……

The two people in front of them are both well-known figures on Wall Street for their calm self-control, inhumanity, and eternal rationality.

Yan Ruxin averted her gaze.

She unceremoniously took the knife and fork, sat on the bar stool, and ate her portion.

Honey, milk, butter, and sliced ​​bread that has been in the refrigerator for an unknown amount of time have been turned into delicious browned French toast.

A small cluster of fruit salad with candied poached eggs, drizzled with tempting mayonnaise…

There was even a small panna cotta with caramel on top.

Plus a cup of fragrant freshly ground coffee.

Although it's all cooking that doesn't require much skill.

But such a wide variety of exquisite and lovely breakfast, Yan Ruxin has always only eaten in the hotel buffet breakfast, and never bothered to cook it herself.

Yan Ruxin is a super fast hand player in cooking.

All her dishes can be served within 10 minutes, and she rarely cooks if it takes more than this time.

"Huh? This poached egg is so good~" Yan Ruxin's eyes lit up, "The creme brulee tastes just right."

Marcos snorted coldly as a response to her praise.

Since there was only one bar stool in the room, which was already occupied by Yan Ruxin, this *oss casually leaned on the cabinet to eat.

But the posture is still elegant and extravagant, which brings the small kitchen of an apartment to the level of fashion photos.

He scanned the documents that Yan Ruxin was reading while eating breakfast, and said, "You want to buy Top Peak?"

"Well, 2 dollars a share, close to the cost price." Yan Ruxin didn't hide anything, she nodded generously and said, "I plan to use 4500 million dollars to buy 25% of the shares."

He took a look at the document and didn't express any other opinions. He just pointed to a name and asked, "Why him?"

The "he" Marcos refers to is Robert Friedman, with whom Yan Ruxin held a preliminary discussion at the dinner on Saturday.

Another top figure on the summit, Patrick Worsberg is a Frenchman. In 93, he and his partners - Bob Howard and David Garrett - bought the shares of the former Summit Entertainment Group. become a major shareholder.

Robert Friedman, who only joined last year with financing from Merrill Lynch, is currently chief administrative officer.

"At that time, I used Merrill Lynch Securities as my entry point. You also know the current situation. I can just take the opportunity to lower the price and make a quick decision..." Yan Ruxin replied, "If I'm lucky, today's summit should be able to give me An answer."

Marcos nodded and asked blankly: "Why are you optimistic about the summit?"

Judging from the financial statements, Summit Entertainment's performance is tepid, and it is heavily in debt, and has been losing money year after year.

According to media reports, professionals are not optimistic about its recently produced and released films.

Even if there is a highly anticipated film released in the near future, investors generally will not take the risk of launching an acquisition under such circumstances.

After painting "Twilight", according to its performance, wait for the opportunity to move. Although the cost will increase a lot, the risk will also be reduced a lot.

"Well... a business secret." Yan Ruxin blinked and smiled mischievously.

Marcos was noncommittal, and said casually: "I'm going to the company today, if you encounter problems with the acquisition, you can call me."

Acquisition question?

Yan Ruxin looked at him suspiciously first, "Did you see something? Don't be so stingy, you are not hostile to me now, and you don't have a confidentiality agreement, let's hear it."

"It's just a guess." Marcos shook his head, and it seemed that he didn't intend to speak out the unverified judgment.

Yan Ruxin thought that she understood this former opponent.

She didn't think he would play tricks and aim for nothing.

Therefore, I also carefully read the collected information and the acquisition case I planned from beginning to end.

Peak's equity is not very scattered, basically in the hands of Patrick Worthberg, his partners Bob Howard and David Garrett, and Robert Friedman, and the rest of the retail minority shareholders There are only a few shares in hand.

And the current operating conditions of the peak, as well as the current situation of the capital market are not good.

Yan Ruxin's goal is to get more shares at a lower price. What she wants is only non-k shares, probably without management rights.

But if Fengfeng doesn't cooperate, she actually doesn't mind launching a hostile takeover.

It just depends on Fengfeng's attitude. If everyone is happy, you love me and I wish, which is naturally the best.

For a top investment bank director in the world, to acquire a company at the expected price, as long as the opponent doesn't hire someone like Marcos, she doesn't think this is too difficult a challenge.

When Yan Ruxin stepped into Summit's office building in Santa Monica, she still had this thought...

But two hours later, he walked out with a not-so-good complexion.

As Marcos predicted, the acquisition went awry.

Robert Friedman, contrary to the anxiety caused by Merrill Lynch's financing problems on Saturday, was confident and rejected Yan Ruxin's acquisition price in a strong tone.

They also said that if Yan Ruxin wants to take a share, they welcome it, but they can only transfer the shares at the market price, and the maximum cannot exceed 15%.

There was also Patrick Wursberg, and the other partners, and it seemed that a consensus was reached.

Contrary to outside speculation, the relationship between the directors and the management of Summit seems to be still in the honeymoon period, and has not drifted away due to the lack of results from Summit.

Yan Ruxin tried her best, but failed to dig out the information from the siege of the few people present.

But before leaving, she said that she still insisted on the previous acquisition plan, and finally broke up with the summit directors.

After leaving the office building, Yan Ruxin's face returned to normal, calm and gentle.

In the building, because she couldn't figure out the situation for the time being, she naturally showed weakness to the enemy, showing that she was irritated by the summit's back-and-forth decision.

After all, she looks so young now, playing such an impulsive character who is not mature enough to calm down when things happen, should be regarded as "acting in her true colors".

The most easily underestimated defect of young people is this.

She got into the taxi, took out her mobile phone and checked the latest news, but there was no relevant information.

For a while, she couldn't determine why Fengfeng was so "confident", and naturally it was difficult to propose a solution in a targeted manner.

Without the tacit understanding of the team, Yan Ruxin was still a little uncomfortable with such a solo action.

Although in an investment bank team, the most brilliant and most decisive ones are leaders like Yan Ruxin and Marcos.

But they also require the collaboration of other good members of the team.

Collecting information, contacting the media, communicating with the company's top management, contacting the public relations company, setting up internal confidentiality, listening to the opponent's intelligence... all kinds of functions are indispensable.

Yan Ruxin had to complete the work of a team by herself, so it was inevitable that she couldn't take care of some things.

Thinking of what Marcos said in the morning, she took out her mobile phone and dialed.

"As you said, Zenith rejected my offer, and was only willing to sell 15%." She cut to the chase, "Do you know the reason?"

"Well, come and find me." Marcos replied coldly, told her the address, and hung up the phone.

"..." Yan Ruxin looked at the disconnected phone in a daze.

What's the situation?

This boss is used to being a boss, right?

Outrageous!

She's not working for him~

While complaining, Yan Ruxin struggled psychologically, and finally decided—

Go ahead.

This is the first time for her to conduct acquisition negotiations as an investor.

Although I'm not a novice anymore, but it's about me, I'm a bit of a fan of the authorities.

As for the opinions of bystanders of Marcos' level, no matter what, she wanted to listen to them.

As for attitude...

After accepting the serious and cold personality of Marcos, who abuses the world from the inside out, and has his own arsenal, it is not impossible to compromise a little bit.

……

Hollywood, Century City

Yan Ruxin walked into the building of CAA.

Creative Artists Agency, the English full name is y, and the abbreviation is caa.

This is one of the largest brokerage companies in Hollywood, and also the most influential brokerage company in the world.

Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Will Smith...these prominent Hollywood superstars are signed artists of CAA .

And these are just a few of CAA's more than a thousand customers in the film, television, music, literature and even sports circles.

Ordinary viewers usually think that in the ecological chain of the entertainment industry, stars are the protagonists.

actually not.

In reality, most of them are just pawns in the hands of studios, investment companies, brokerage companies... these companies.

Among them, caa, the brokerage company, controls the vast majority of movie stars and directors, and can handle Hollywood's ups and downs at any time.

Even Time Warner, Disney...these film giants have to show respect to CAA.

Take the big-screen movie circle with the highest quality as an example, more than [-]% of Hollywood's first-line stars are signed under CAA's banner.

There are not only super-class actors, but also super-class directors such as Spielberg, as well as top producers and script writers.

It can be said that from the script to the post-production of the film, CAA can provide a full set of luxurious top-level team for a film.

This is where the film giants are surprised and afraid of CAA.

The most typical marketing method of caa is bundled sales——

If you want an actor, you have to use CAA's script, director, and producer.

Therefore, the film industry often blames CAA's lion's mouth for the increase in labor costs.