Chapter 999 (1/2)

After breakfast, we rush to Manhattan again. Today's main agenda is related to a series of investment or cooperation projects of westero system in China.

The focus is a meeting in the morning about the IPO of China Telecom.

The First Boston team of Credit Suisse and Apollo management team of cersei capital participated in the meeting, and also connected with the Chinese team. The main purpose of the meeting was to accelerate the process of China Telecom's overseas listing.

According to the past memory, Simon previously thought that China Telecom's overseas listing could be completed only in the first half of next year, because the second half of next year is the Southeast Asian financial crisis. Once the crisis broke out, even under the vistro system, the IPO is still successfully completed, and the amount of financing will inevitably shrink significantly, which will also affect the subsequent stock price trend.

The initial listing date is around May next year. Now, Simon himself has made a decision to advance the deadline by five months, requiring the IPO to be completed by the end of this year.

Before the IPO of large state-owned telecom companies, there were cases such as Japan Telecom and Deutsche Telekom. The IPO process of these companies once took several years. For China, it was only one year since Simon formally signed the contract when he visited China in April and listed in May next year.

Suddenly shortened to seven months, all parties were unprepared.

Simon had to.

With the current surge of new technology, Simon believes that the NASDAQ index will last until the end of the year at the most. It's just the overseas IPO idea designed for China Telecom by westrow system. To a large extent, it's also a gimmick of new technology concept to attract investment. In such a case, once China Telecom is able to carry out IPO after the bursting of the new technology bubble, it can be imagined.

Simon didn't make a public decision in the conference room on the reasons for the decision, but all parties knew it.

At the end of the meeting, Simon personally held a call with the person in charge of China at noon, and finally reached an agreement. Compared with the tardy West, Simon is actually very confident in the efficiency of China. In the past few months, the asset restructuring of China Telecom supported by Apollo management team was much faster than originally expected.

This is also a Chinese characteristic.

Decision making is very slow. Sometimes it is not impossible to delay for ten or eight years. However, once the decision is made, the implementation efficiency will be very high.

In addition, at the end of the morning meeting, Simon personally drove the two teams of First Boston and Apollo management company to board the plane directly to China. Chen Qing and her two daughters also went to China together. Simon hoped that they would put aside their work for the time being and personally participate in the whole IPO process of China Telecom in the next few months, so that they could not only accumulate more experience, It can also further expand the network.

At the same time, it also acts as Simon's ”eyes.”.

China Telecom is not only the first attempt of China's large state-owned enterprises to list overseas, but also a trial of many large state-owned enterprises' overseas financing. It is very important for China, as well as for the westero system, which can undertake more overseas listing projects of China's state-owned enterprises in the future.

Therefore, there should be no loss.

After working in the daytime, in the evening, it was an investor reception of Verizon Telecom. Simon didn't stay too long at the reception. He arrived at eight o'clock. He just exchanged greetings with some important guests and left half an hour later.

Get to an apartment in Greenwich. This is Jerry hall.

Just after a few knocks on the door, the door opens, and a little girl who is more and more graceful jumps out and pours on Simon, with a sweet mouth: ”Dad.”

Simon holding Jerry Hall's eldest daughter Elizabeth into the door, only to find that here is also holding a party, and it is a very relaxed family party, the kind of family.

At a glance, we can see that there are Jerry Hall's social circle, Anna Wintour, Vogue's female editor in chief, and so on; Anna Coleman, Fashion TV's female president, or Kathy Hilton and Chris Jenna, and so on; Jane winner, rolling stone's editor in chief, and so on.

Because most of the memories of previous lives are known.

Of course, many of them are just acquaintances. Even though there were more than ten identities, they had to keep looking up to the elites at the top of each pyramid. This time, Simon was absolutely looked up to.

Because it was some unruly little girl who probably got the news or instructions from her mother and called Simon to stay over at noon. I didn't expect to hold a party. Even if he has been busy for a week and doesn't want to socialize any more, Simon doesn't care too much about women's careful thinking. Anyway, he doesn't need to spend any thought on this level of socializing.

Leaving the goblin on a sofa in the living room, Simon turns to Jerry hall.

Jerry hall carefully looks at Simon's expression, and makes sure that the man doesn't mind. Then he puts down his heart, hugs Simon, takes his arm and walks to the crowd.

A lot of sharp eyed guests also came here for the first time.Jerry Hall's flat floor apartment, originally purchased by Simon, covers a total area of more than 700 square meters, occupying a whole floor of the apartment building, which is equivalent to six or seven flat floors of an ordinary family. If you don't pay attention to it, you may get lost. More than 100 guests are scattered here tonight, which is not crowded at all.

”It's a big loss for the fashion industry to stop the operation of Vimy. Simon, don't you really want to think about it again?”

In the corner of the living room, Anna Wintour said with regret, and the people around her who were able to get together were also in line. As far as this circle is concerned, the latest hot topic is that Weimi show will be closed after this year. After all, this fashion super bowl has accumulated too much influence in the past few years.

Simon put his arm around the slender waist of the tall woman beside him and shook his head with a smile. ”It's a decision that has been made, and it's not a permanent stop. Unlike the super bowl or the Oscars, it's hard for the model of the Vermeer show to surprise the audience every year, so I hope it can be suspended when it still leaves the best memory for people, and it can be restarted at the right time in the future. ”

The crowd nodded with understanding.

It's a surprise to be able to meet this young man with more and more power and wealth tonight. No one will be so stupid as to pick on him.

Anna Wintour also has an understanding expression: ”Simon, speaking up, we have decided to make a Weimi topic for the most important September issue of vogue this year. As the leader of the Weimi show, can you spare time for a short interview?”

This time Simon just smiles and shakes his head.

I don't want to be in the limelight.

Anna Wintour is not entangled either. Next to her, Jane winner, editor in chief of Rolling Stone magazine, interjected: ”Simon, what I pay most attention to is music. Since it is the last issue, how many BGM songs are you looking forward to providing?”

”This one needs inspiration.”