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Chapter 466 Nomination (3136nd update )

Robert Capito!

I have been in BlackRock for five years, but I have never had a private conversation with the president!

The Robert Capito who is known as the "coldest vampire"!

Why is the president here?
Ryan Horsley suddenly remembered what Jiang Nanzhen said in the morning: "I will go and report to the president."

At that time he thought Jiang Nanzhen was going to make a phone call, but now it seems that the president has also come to Haixi!
And he came here specifically for Si Lingsi!
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to show up at this dinner!
No wonder I have to go through security check just to eat. Ah, now I remember, I saw those two men in black when I was at the headquarters! They are the group's security personnel!

I should have thought of that when I saw them just now~
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Why didn't anyone tell me?

No wonder Linda ran so fast just now! This woman must have known that Capito would also attend tonight!

Ryan Horsley looked hatefully at Linda, whose makeup was obviously coming off from running so hard.

While Linda was quietly putting on makeup, she thought to herself, you really think highly of me. How did I know the president was coming?

Fortunately, I ran fast.

"Mr. President, I'm sorry, there's a traffic jam on the road..."

A drop of cold sweat trickled down Ryan Horsley's forehead.

Seeing Robert Capito with a blank expression on his face and not even looking at him, he was racking his brains to explain a few more words when he heard Sandeep Sharma speaking behind him.

"Mr. Capito, I'm not late. The time Ryan informed me was 19:30. It's 19:22 now. I arrived eight minutes early."

Sandeep Sharma looked righteous and upright, without a trace of guilt or hesitation in his tone.

Nest grass?

Ryan Horsley turned around in disbelief, his eyebrows twisted into the shape of Nike.

When did I inform you that it was 19:30? We are from two different departments, and you didn't report to me. Wasn't it Linda who informed you?

Moreover, in the car you were still saying that you should go there later.

Lying to my face! Backstabbing me!
How can you lie with such a righteous look?
Ryan Horsley felt that either he was crazy or this Barat man was crazy.

Do you really think anyone would believe such a lie?

Do you Bharat people take others as fools?

As long as I deny it, your lame lie will be exposed!

But having said that, when the words were on the tip of his tongue, Horsley began to worry whether it was unseemly to do so. Would arguing with this Barat man in front of the president make the president have a worse impression of him, or would the president think that he was too fond of shirking responsibility.

Ryan Horsley found that he couldn't come up with any effective rebuttal and could only open his mouth and keep saying "me, me, me".

Robert Capito ignored them and just took a long-handled silver spoon and gently tapped the goblet that was half filled with red wine, making a crisp clanging sound.

The two men in black appeared out of nowhere again, walked quickly to Robert Capito and bent down.

Robert Capito said something to the two of them, and they nodded. After turning around, he stretched out his hand, grabbed Ryan Horsley's arm, and whispered, "Mr. Horsley, Mr. President, please leave."

Sandeep Sharma let out a soft breath.

It was a close call. Fortunately I reacted quickly.

Ryan Horsley was almost going crazy.

I was kicked out, but Shamal, a Bharat, was not kicked out! There are fools who actually believe such lies!
And the fool is the president of BlackRock!

Shamal looked at Horsley, whose face turned pale as he was driven away by the men in black, with pity in his eyes.

Silly child, in such a situation, how can a person of the president's level tell whether such an insignificant explanation is a lie?

Shameless? How can it be shameless? This is smart.

I'm smarter than you, so I win and you lose, it's that simple.

What? You mean Linda knew I lied? Do you think Linda could accuse me in this situation? What good would it do her?
It is even more impossible to bring charges afterwards because there is no evidence.

Robert Capito's attention was indeed not on him. He was concentrating on talking to the three partners of Team 404 opposite him.

Shamal, who survived the disaster, sat next to the black-haired white man in his forties with a smirk on his face and nodded to him.

Why does this person look so familiar?

Shamar muttered in his heart, and the white man next to him looked at him and muttered in a low voice: Shameless Barat people.

Xia Maal swallowed his anger and didn't care at all. He pricked up his ears and listened to the conversation at the table.

"Three of you, the conditions you proposed are impossible. We already have 14 independent directors, and it is impossible to add any more board seats in the short term. In fact, it is unlikely that we will increase our board seats in the future."

"Not to mention adding three board seats. Needless to say, I cannot agree to it, and the board of directors will not agree to it either." "As for your proposed price of 15 billion dollars in cash and 15 billion dollars in stock, if you can sign a non-compete agreement and guarantee that you will not engage in similar business within five years and guarantee that you will not assist any organization or individual in the research and development of similar systems, it is not impossible to negotiate."

Robert Capito spoke slowly and in a kind voice.

Shamal's heart couldn't help but thump.

What? 1.5 billion dollars in cash and 1.5 billion in stock?

Adding them all together, that’s three billion!

Is this Woking system so valuable? And the president negotiated it personally?

The existence and effect of the Woking system are also top secret in BlackRock, and people two levels higher than Shamal may not know about it.

No, no, no, it doesn't matter. What did I just hear?
404 wants three board seats at BlackRock?

Are you dreaming?

Which director of BlackRock is not a local tycoon?
Larry Fink and Robert Capito are not to be mentioned. Mattis is the CEO of Swiss Re, Lapdu Latif Hamad is the chairman of Tocharian Sovereign Fund, Fabrizio is the president and CEO of Estee Lauder, Murray Gerber is the chairman of EQT, Komansky is the chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, Seidenberg is the chairman and CEO of communications giant Verizon, Thomas O'Brien is the chairman and CEO of PNC, and John Vallee is the CEO of Barclays Bank...

Putting aside how prominent these people's backgrounds are, you can tell from their names that most of them are from Jude, right?
You three young men from Da Zhou who haven’t even grown all their hair yet actually want to join the BlackRock board of directors?

Shamal suddenly felt that as a Barat, he was still too conservative and was not as daring as the three Zhou boys in front of him to daydream.

After hearing what Robert Capito said, the three of them looked at each other. They didn't expect Robert Capito to come out and negotiate with them.

"Mr. President, you can't say that. Didn't you just say that Mr. Osborne will soon join the BlackRock board of directors?"

Luo Ziming blinked, raised his red wine glass to the white man next to Xia Maer, and smiled apologetically.

Mr Osborne?
Shamal suddenly remembered who the person next to him was.

George Osborne!
The recently retired Anglo Chancellor of the Exchequer!
Anglo-American aristocrats!

Shamal was so scared that he almost dropped the foie gras on the plate to the ground.

The inherent suppression of the Bharatas by the Ang people is like a cat against a mouse, and the Ang nobles are even superior to the Brahmins.

"That's different." Faced with the ignorant words of the Zhou-American young man who had no idea what was going on, Robert Capito still showed great patience.

You can't not show patience.

At the beginning of today's meeting, Jiang Nanzhen took the lead and threatened Si Lingsi by saying "BlackRock can put pressure on the SEC to revoke its RIA (Registered Investment Advisor Qualification)". As a result, the three people of Si Lingsi turned against each other on the spot and almost overturned the table and left.

All companies engaged in fund business in Miami must submit ADV reports every year, which include detailed information on the company's operations, management, investment strategies, risk factors, etc.

An investment adviser needs to update its registration information immediately if there is a significant change in its business structure, managers, or business activities.

For example, RIAs are required to resubmit reports to the SEC when there are management structure adjustments, changes in asset size, or changes in business direction.

But how can I put it? Strict legislation and selective enforcement are inevitable. Sometimes it all depends on whether the SEC managers want to punish you. If they want to, they can do whatever they want.

Using this thing to threaten is tantamount to saying to the other person in person, "If you don't obey me, I will kill your whole family."

In order to clean up Jiang Nanzhen's mess, Robert Capito can only use gentle means to win over the three partners of 404.

"Mr. Osborne is actually replacing Ms. Barbara Novick, who is about to retire, on the board. After Barbara retires next year, BlackRock will still have 14 independent director seats."

"Mr. President, you must at least guarantee us a seat on the board of directors, otherwise Si Lingsi's interests cannot be guaranteed."

Lu Xuechang pretended to be calm and shook the wine glass in his hand.

It’s strange, if it were usual, they might be timid and unable to say anything in the face of Capito’s momentum, but today, they looked at Capito as if he were an ordinary old man and were not overwhelmed by Robert Capito’s momentum at all.

Before Robert Capito spoke, Jiang Nanzhen took over the topic with a twinkle in her eyes: "Xuechang, you are all very young. Youth is an advantage, but it is also your weakness. BlackRock will never allow such a young person to become a member of the board of directors. This will make the market question BlackRock's board control."

"So, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee what you said, and we will not guarantee it."

Anger flashed across Lu Xuechang and Huang Xiang's faces, and they were about to open their mouths to refute, but were stopped by Luo Ziming.

"Is it just a matter of age and qualifications?" Luo Ziming's eyes flickered. "What if we don't nominate ourselves? What if we nominate someone who is qualified enough in terms of age and qualifications to represent the interests of Si Ling Si?"

Robert Capito was stunned.

Someone who is sufficiently qualified, both in terms of youth and seniority?
Luo Ziming looked at Jiang Nanzhen's eyes and felt more confident.

"We are going to nominate Tong Yongshan, a world-renowned econometrician, vice president of a national university, dean of the School of Economics, and independent director of the 404 Fund, to join the BlackRock board of directors."

After saying that, Luo Ziming raised his glass to Tong Yongshan, who had been acting as a mascot next to him.

"Mr. President, Dean Tong should be qualified, right?"

(End of this chapter)