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Chapter 147 Another Identity

Yesterday, the final transaction price of Hong Kong Electric Group was HK$2.46 per share. Based on this transaction price, it was increased by another 10%, and the final transaction price was exactly HK$1.19 million.

After mutual discussion, both parties agreed to sign the equity transfer contract at the headquarters of Hong Kong Electric Group at 10 o'clock the next morning.

The rest of the matters will naturally be left to Percy to handle. Lin Haoran only needs to go to the headquarters of Hong Kong Electric Group tomorrow morning.

Holding the signed agreement, Lin Haoran left the hotel directly and returned to his office in the Wan'an Group Building.

Then he calculated his available funds.

Although Qingzhou Yingni Company has accumulated a lot of available funds in the past six months, Lin Haoran did not use them, but let Burton use them to buy land.

The same thing happened to Wan'an Group. Not only did they not take any shares from Today, they even asked the group to take out loans to buy land for investment.

Therefore, Lin Haoran's available funds are actually the US$9000 million left from the sale of oil, or HK$4.77 million, plus the HK$4000 million dividend that Aigo just distributed not long ago.

However, after returning from the United States, his expenses were also not small.

The acquisition of shares from six shareholders of Wan'an Group and his elder brother Lin Hao Ning cost HK$4500 million.

On the part of Huanyu Investment Company, it also spent HK$2380 million to acquire shares of Wan'an Group to meet the privatization standards during this period.

Another big investor bought shares of Hong Kong Electric Group, totaling 4790 million shares, spending HK$11553 million.

Taking all these income and expenditure into consideration, Lin Haoran found that he still had HK$33267 million in available funds.

With more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars in available funds, that’s not bad.

However, tomorrow another HK$1.19 million will be spent to purchase 4400 million shares of Hong Kong Electric Group held by Percy.

Therefore, after this transaction, he only had more than 210 million Hong Kong dollars left.

Money is hard to spend, so he can only hope that the profits from gold will come smoothly, so that he will be much more well-off.

After staying in the company for a short time, Lin Haoran went home to rest.

At around nine o'clock the next morning, Lin Haoran did not go to the Wan'an Group Building first, but went directly to the headquarters building of the Hong Kong Electric Group on Kennedy Road.

The headquarters of HK Electric Group is located on Kennedy Road in the Central and Western District of Hong Kong Island. This address has not changed since the company was founded.

Although this place is in Wan Chai, only a hundred meters away from the prosperous Central and Wan Chai areas, it is on the mountain.

After explaining the purpose of the visit to the foreign front desk clerk, the other party was not surprised. Instead, he respectfully led Lin Haoran to the elevator. It was obvious that he had received advance notice.

Under the guidance of the beautiful foreign receptionist, Lin Haoran finally came to a meeting room.

At this moment, it was already around nine fifty in the morning, so he arrived quite punctually.

Looking inside, Lin Haoran spotted the bald Percy and the famous chairman of Hong Kong Electric Group.

Although the Hong Kong Electric Group is a British-owned company and many of its major shareholders are British, the chairman of this giant trading company is actually a Chinese, Mr. Chen Shoulin.

Under the management of Mr. Chen, the Hong Kong Electric Group began to develop in a diversified manner, breaking away from its single electricity sales corporate structure, which enabled the Hong Kong Electric Group's profits to grow year by year. It can be said that he is also a very outstanding professional manager.

Fifteen people gathered in the conference room, they were part of the board of directors of Hong Kong Electric Group.

What surprised Lin Haoran was that, in addition to Chen Shoulin, there were three Chinese faces in the senior management team of Hong Kong Electric Group.

There were fifteen people at the scene, except for four Chinese, the rest were all foreigners.

This is much better than the previous Qingzhou Yingni Company.

Before Lin Haoran took over Qingzhou Yingni Company, there was not a single Chinese person in the senior management, and the entire management team seemed to be very exclusive to Chinese people.

However, the Hong Kong Electric Group is many times larger than the Green Island Cement Company, and it can accommodate Chinese people, which is also an eye-opener for Lin Haoran.

But if you think about it, it is understandable. The Hong Kong Electric Group is not only a publicly listed company, but it has never had a major family shareholder, and senior management are mainly hired from outside. Naturally, it is much more open-minded in this regard.

Of course, judging from the number of foreigners, the board members of Hong Kong Electric Group are still mainly foreigners. After all, it is a company founded by British capital, which is understandable.

But it can also be seen from this aspect that Chen Shoulin, a professional manager in his fifties, can serve as the chairman of the Hong Kong Electric Group and gain the recognition and conviction of so many foreigners, which is enough to prove his management ability.

"Mr. Lin, you are such a promising young man!" Chen Shoulin shook hands with Lin Haoran enthusiastically.

"Hello, Mr. Chen." Lin Haoran responded with a slight smile.

Soon, he knew the identities of the people at the scene.

Among these dozen people, there are actually only four real shareholders, all of whom are foreigners. The rest are senior executives of the Hong Kong Electric Group. They either have no shares in the Hong Kong Electric Group, or have few shares. These people are basically professional managers of the Hong Kong Electric Group, including the chairman, Mr. Chen Shoulin.

Of course, there are more than just these four shareholders of Hong Kong Electric Group, but there can’t be too many of them.

Because most of the shareholders of Hong Kong Electric Group are stock shareholders, even the board members of Hong Kong Electric Group do not come here often.

Percy called them over just to be a witness. "Mr. Lin, I have prepared all the materials needed for our transaction, including the contract, stock certificates, etc. In addition, once the stocks are transferred to you, you will also take over my nominal position as the director of the Hong Kong Electric Group," Percy said with a smile.

The smile on Percy's face grew brighter as he thought about how smoothly the deal went.

More than 100 million Hong Kong dollars in funds, but when he came to Hong Kong a few years ago, he brought less than half of this amount of money.

Not only that, he also used the dividends he received from the Hong Kong Electric Group to set up a hotel in Hong Kong. Although the rent of a building is not cheap, the business is good.

After the deal is done, he can leave Hong Kong at any time and return to Scotland whenever he wants.

He no longer needs to worry too much about the future of Hong Kong.

However, what Percy didn't know was that the longer he stayed, the more he would regret it.

Because he would watch the market value of Hong Kong Electric Group rise rapidly from more than a billion Hong Kong dollars to several times more in a few years.

In other words, if he chooses to hold on, his shares will be worth HK$400 to 500 million in a few years.

But at that time, it was no use regretting.

Back to the meeting room of Hong Kong Electric Group, the two parties have already reached an agreement and signed the transaction agreement, so there is naturally no need for further negotiations.

Therefore, under the witness of many members of the Hong Kong Electric Group’s board of directors, Lin Haoran and Percy successfully completed the transaction.

After finishing it, Lin Haoran did not delay and went directly to the bank with Percy to complete the transfer.

After completing the transfer, Lin Haoran breathed a sigh of relief. The transaction was finally completed.

Although he paid HK$1.19 million for this, he also successfully obtained 4400 million shares of Hong Kong Electric Group from the other party.

Together with the 4790 million shares previously absorbed by Universal Investment Company, Lin Haoran now secretly controls 9190 million shares of Hong Kong Electric Group, accounting for about 14.59% of the total shares.

In other words, on the surface, he only became the second largest shareholder of Hong Kong Electric Group, holding approximately 6.98% of the group's shares.

Secretly, he has officially become the largest shareholder of Hong Kong Electric Group, owning 14.59% of the shares.

Suddenly, Lin Haoran felt that being the largest shareholder was too easy for him.

But no matter what, this is a good thing.

At least, the Hong Kong Electric Group has not attracted the attention of any major forces yet.

But if he waits for another two years, not only the Hong Kong Land Group, but also the Cheung Kong Group, the Carrian Group and other forces will be eyeing the Hong Kong Electric Group. It will be difficult for him to take over so many Hong Kong Electric Group shares so easily at that time.

After acquiring Percy's shares, Lin Haoran specially returned to the headquarters building of Hong Kong Electric Group to inspect the group.

Perhaps because he was the first Chinese shareholder of the Hong Kong Electric Group to hold a large number of shares, Chairman Chen was particularly enthusiastic about Lin Haoran and personally took Lin Haoran to inspect and introduce various departments of the group.

Along the way, Chen Shoulin also introduced his management philosophy and future development plans for the Hong Kong Electric Group.

From his plan, Lin Haoran could feel that Chen Shoulin had a good idea about the future development. For example, he planned to work with other real estate companies to develop real estate on the former site of the Electric Road Power Station in North Point, Lot 8200 in Jardine's Lookout, the former site of Chai Wan Interchange, as well as Sheung Wan, Tsuen Wan, Fortress Hill and other sites, so as to enhance the strength of the Hong Kong Electric Group in the real estate business and increase the group's profitability.

Relying solely on electricity sales, although the income is stable, the upper limit is not high.

No matter who is at the helm of the group, they all hope to break through this bottleneck and make the group more profitable. Apparently, Chen Shoulin is the same.

If Lin Haoran had not interfered in the affairs of the Hong Kong Electric Group, if nothing unexpected happened, by the end of next year, the Hong Kong Electric Group would have formed an international city group with the Wheelock Group, one of the four major trading companies, and Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Group.

The purpose of establishing this international city group is to develop the numerous plots of land owned by the Hong Kong Electric Group.

However, Lin Haoran is now a director of the Hong Kong Electric Group. After making huge profits from the gold market, he will directly control the Hong Kong Electric Group. At that time, he will naturally not let the Hong Kong Electric Group go down this path.

Good things should be kept within the family. Even if the land needs to be developed, it should be developed by Wan'an Group.

In this way, the strength of Wan'an Group can be greatly enhanced.

Since Wan'an Group really has no strength, he can directly control another real estate company at that time.

At the end of 1982, affected by the real estate crisis, many real estate companies would have gone bankrupt or restructured due to broken capital chains, including some powerful real estate developers.

When the time comes, Wan'an Group will merge with the acquired real estate companies, and its real estate development strength will naturally increase significantly.

So, this problem is actually very easy to solve.

At this moment, Lin Haoran, known to only a few people, has once again acquired a special identity - a major shareholder of Hong Kong Electric Group.

He has no plans to disclose this identity for the time being, so as not to attract the attention of some interested parties, such as Li Jiacheng.

There is no need to issue a special announcement when a director without real power takes office.

(End of this chapter)