Chapter 328 (2/2)

Lawrence Fink is now the head of Blackstone financial management company, a subsidiary of Blackstone Group. He has about $3 billion in capital in his hands, mainly responsible for mainstream stock and bond investment.

After the premiere of ”Batman: the moment of war”, Simon talked with Frank Walken, the boyfriend of Lisa Collins, who is Jennifer's best friend. When he heard that the other party works under Lawrence Fink, he soon noticed his boss and asked James to collect information about Lawrence Fink.

Now Lawrence Fink is just the head of a subsidiary of Blackstone Group.

However, Simon knows that more than ten years later, Lawrence Fink broke away from Blackstone Group and founded BlackRock group (also known as BlackRock group) which is better than his old owners.

At its peak, the capital scale controlled by black rock group once exceeded US $6 trillion, becoming the largest asset management company in the world. Whether it's top technology companies such as apple, Amazon and Google, or traditional industrial giants such as general electric and Wal Mart, BlackRock group is one of the top five important shareholders.

In fact, holding shares of enterprises means the corresponding right to speak.

With the huge total assets of 6 trillion US dollars and the important shareholder status of numerous enterprise giants, we can imagine how terrible potential influence BlackRock group has.

According to James' survey, Simon is also very satisfied with Lawrence Fink's past resume. Just as Lawrence Fink and Steve Schwarzman, the founder and CEO of Blackstone Group, have more and more differences on enterprise management and fund operation, and have intended to leave Blackstone. Simon plans to dig up Lawrence Fink's whole team.

According to the information provided by James, Lawrence Fink is an investor who pays great attention to risk control and has a cautious character. Plus the information in memory, Simon is willing to give more autonomy to the other side than absolute control over the No. 6 sub fund.

As for money, it's not a problem for Simon at all.

With the capital market's admiration for Simon's gold lettered signboard, he can easily raise more than twice the amount of capital Lawrence Fink now manages and give it to the other party.

After a few introductions, we soon found the topic of CBS being taken over by the federal government.

Both sides know that this is an interview.

Simon took part in the topic for a while, listening to Janet and Lawrence talking about the topic of vulture investment in the collapsing North American bond market with great interest. Gradually, he couldn't keep up with the idea, so he just took the initiative to walk away and gave Janet the task of checking the pass.

After several years together, Simon also realized Janet's talent in knowing people.

It's said to be inherited from Raymond Johnston.

Introduced by James, he said hello to some other guests. Soon, a figure that surprised Simon appeared in front of him.

Or two.

Linda Carter, wearing a black low cut dress, is holding a middle-aged man, who should be her husband.

Without waiting for James to introduce him, the middle-aged man warmly extended his hand to Simon and said, ”Hello, Mr. westrow. I'm Robert Altman.”

This Robert Altman is obviously not the Hollywood Robert Altman.Simon is not surprised by the fact that Westerners are so familiar with the phenomenon of double names. He smiles and reaches out to each other.

When Linda Carter saw Simon, her expression was a little unnatural. After he said hello to her husband, she reached over and said, ”Hello, Mr. westrow.”

The woman obviously pretended not to know herself, and Simon didn't poke it out. She said, ”Hello, Mrs. Altman.”

Linda Carter, aware of Simon's apparent intention, flashed some resentment and explained, ”Mr. westrow, I didn't take my husband's name.”

Simon said, ”Oh, I'm so sorry.”

”Simon, it's said that Denise entertainment is already preparing a live action movie of wonder woman. Maybe we can have Linda play a cameo role,” Robert Altman said with a smile. ”You know, Linda is the most popular wonder woman.”

Simon glanced at the woman and said, ”of course, if there's a chance.”

After a little chat, Robert Altman introduced his work. He is also a lawyer, mainly engaged in the tax avoidance business of helping overseas capital to invest in the United States.

Simon listened to Robert Altman's explanation and understood why he was so eager for himself.

Cersei capital is hoarding a lot of money overseas. Simon is obviously a potential customer.

After chatting for a while, Robert Altman left his business card and invited Simon to have lunch with him tomorrow. After no success, he walked away.

When the two left, James shook his head slightly at Simon and said, ”Simon, it's better not to have too much involvement with Altman. This person's tax avoidance method has a lot of fringes. To put it bluntly, it has the nature of money laundering. Rumor has it that the IRS is after him. ”

Simon nodded and said, ”I don't have that idea.”

After accumulating such a huge amount of wealth in just a few years, Simon knew that there were definitely a lot of people staring at him. Once he has a flaw, there will certainly be a large number of opponents. Simon has enough confidence that he will accumulate a lot of wealth by fully using the formal means of operation, and now he will not consider using those unofficial unorthodox ways at all.

Jeanette walked back to Simon and said, ”it's settled, but Fink doesn't plan to change jobs with the team. He hopes we can buy the shares held by Blackstone Group, so that his business can continue.”

”What about Blackstone?”

”Fink wants autonomy and shares more shares with other partners, but Steve Schwarzman insists on maintaining absolute control over the subsidiary. There are more and more differences between them. If Fink leads the team to change jobs, it will only leave Blackstone a mess. In contrast, Blackstone Group can still get a certain amount of income by selling us its asset management department. They should not refuse it. ”

Simon nodded and asked, ”have you discussed the offer with Fink?”

”Blackstone now has a 50% stake in Blackstone financial management, and according to the Fink team's performance estimates over the past year, the offer can remain within $100 million,” Janet said. After taking over this company, I don't believe many investors will redeem their original funds, and Fink's team is very stable. So, this investment is very worthwhile. ”