Chapter 1495 (1/2)
”Lead arranger?”
After hearing Steve Johnson's intention, Li Mu smiled playfully.
A moment later, Li Mu said: ”Sequoia is the world's top investor in the investment field, but in the IPO underwriters, it doesn't seem to rank in the front line, does it? If Makino is looking for the right underwriters, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Citibank, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, they should be the best choice for cooperation. ”
Steve Johnson nodded and said, ”I'm not all here for Sequoia today. In fact, I'm talking to you about the lead bank today. It's HSBC.”
Li Mu frowned.
”HSBC?” ”How could Mr. Steve relate to a bank in Hong Kong?” asked Li Mu with a puzzled face
”Mr. Li, in fact, HSBC is a British company with its headquarters in London, but it started in Hong Kong in the early years,” said Steve Johnson with a smile
”Well, I'm alone.” Li Mu nodded softly and said, ”what makes you strive for the qualification of IPO leader for a British company to list in the United States?”
Steve Johnson said with a smile: ”first of all, I want to make a statement with President Li. Although I am a redwood employee, I am an Englishman. And now Redwood has not been an American enterprise for a long time. It is just an international enterprise that has made its fortune in the United States and is headquartered in the United States. There are a lot of old money from the United States and the United States behind redwood. To be honest, redwood is going to invest now Money, even the wealth accumulated in the era of British global colonization. ”
Li Mu shrugs his shoulders and laughs at himself: ”so, of the 3.3 billion US dollars you invested in pastoral technology last time, there is a good chance that the British plundered the wealth from China during the Opium War.”
Steve johnso nodded very seriously and said, ”it's not ruled out at all.”
After all, he explained: ”in fact, although the world is creating a large number of new rich people like you, to be honest, the proportion of old money in the huge capital ocean of trillions of dollars in the whole capital market may exceed your imagination. For example, for a family like Rockfeller, no one can figure out how much money they have Here we are. ”
Li Mu agrees with this very much. The old aristocrats and big capitalists in Europe and the United States often create not an enterprise but a money empire. The so-called money empire is that the intangible is better than the tangible. In fact, a company does not operate, but directly or indirectly holds shares in hundreds of enterprises. Such assets can not be counted completely Whole.
At this time, Steve johnso explained: ”the main reason why I am here today to win the leading bank qualification for the IPO of Muye technology for HSBC is because of the deep cooperation between Sequoia and HSBC. In recent years, the proportion of money invested by Sequoia from the HSBC Group has been growing, and HSBC has long been involved in the U.S. market, especially the stock investment market Field, we hope that Sequoia and HSBC will cooperate more and more closely. We also hope that Sequoia, HSBC and Muye technology will cooperate more and more closely. If we can achieve in-depth cooperation, there will be a huge space for common development in the future. ”
As he said, Steve johnso added: ”Mr. Li, you are a doer. In the future, you may create more projects and establish more enterprises, which belong to the front-end producers. Sequoia is an investment bank, which is mainly an investment project, which belongs to the capital operation in the first and middle term. HSBC mainly engages in large-scale capital operation, especially the banking and securities related businesses, which belong to the capital operation in the middle and later stages. This way As a result, the three of us can form an industrial chain. ”
Steve johnso has always stressed the qualification of ”leading bank”, because he knows that, with the volume of Makino technology, no investment bank can afford to raise 20 billion dollars in IPO in the future, so what he wants is the ”leading bank”. It's like the concept of ”leading investment” in investment and financing. To put it bluntly, it's to take the lead.
In any stock exchange market in the world, new shares are the object of great concern and the stock with the largest potential profit space. At the beginning of most new shares' listing, the price will enter a period of rapid growth. If investors can seize this opportunity, they will have a large number of rates to make a profit with the car.
However, the IPO of U.S. stocks is a very interesting thing. Unlike the domestic stock market, U.S. stocks basically do not give retail investors the opportunity to make new shares.
Domestic stocks rely on winning the lottery for new shares, probably depending on luck. If they do, though the number is small, they can make a small profit at least, which is the standard equalitarianism;
however, for American IPO, the stocks are sold by Underwriters with great independent decision-making power, that is to say, if the securities companies get the shares of IPO stocks, they can basically sell themselves It's up to them to decide who the majority of the stock subscription opportunities are for, to some institutions, to some stock funds, or to some big customers. All of these are decided by themselves, which means that having the underwriting right of high potential stock IPO in hand will be a good opportunity for the subordinate institutions of securities companies to make money, and also a good opportunity to maintain big customers.In particular, if an enterprise like Muye technology is highly valued all over the world, its IPO has a huge potential to rise after listing, which is worth long-term investment and long-term holding by investors. Whoever gets the stock of Muye technology's IPO will become the object that investors are chasing. Even the customers of other securities companies may be able to apply for Muye technology's stock, so as to transfer the capital Move to the account of the actual underwriter.