At Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Ronan met five VIPs from Cape Town, South Africa in a reception room, and accompanied them from South Africa to Scott Swift who was settling down.

"This is Mr. Sigoodson, President of Millard International Holdings Group, and Miss Charlotte, Senior Assistant to Mr. Sigoodson..."

As a landlord, Ronan shook hands and greeted these guests one by one.

Yesterday, Scott Swift took them to visit the Pacific Investment Foundation and Shahai Entertainment Company, which had upgraded their business, and focused on introducing them to the film projects invested by the Taiping Investment Foundation.

Before Ronan came to meet them, he also learned in detail that Mirad International Holdings Group is affiliated to the South African newspaper industry and is mainly engaged in investment, media and Internet technical support businesses. Among them, investment is the core business of Mirad International Holdings Group. They have heavyweight investments in Africa, North America, Southeast Asia and other regions.

As investment group companies engaged in media businesses, they are also interested in investments related to Hollywood.

Scott Swift has negotiated with them no less than ten times, and most of the matters have actually been negotiated. As the president of Millard International Holdings Group, West Goodson came to Los Angeles in person. On the one hand, he met Ronan, the boss, and on the other hand, he also wanted to seek better returns from Ronan.

Therefore, after a simple greeting between the two sides, they quickly got to the point.

Like most elites in South Africa, Siguderson is a standard white man and speaks very fluently in English: "Mr. Anderson, Mirad Group currently has a large amount of funds and has been screening for suitable investment channels. We have seen the cooperation between your foundation and Germany, island countries, India and South Korea. You are indeed a very powerful and reputable investment institution."

This is also the reason why he chose the Pacific Investment Foundation, and reputation is very important.

Ronan said with a smile: "The Foundation and I are so honored."

He also responded politely when the other party said it.

After the beautiful words, I really want to say it. Sigoudson smiled and said, "Your ROI has a little low."

However, Ronan said: "Looking at all the formal foundations in the United States, the fixed return on investment of 4% per year is already the highest level."

"No, right." Sigoodson seemed to know nothing: "The annual fixed investment return rate of many investment institutions on Wall Street can reach 70% or 8%, and a fund company has an annual fixed investment return of up to 10%!"

Ronan laughed, without explaining the differences, but said: "Milard International Holdings Group is an old investment company. It has invested in internationally for many years and must be very familiar with the investment industry. Mr. Sigoudson, do you think the annual fixed return on investment is normal for 70% or even 10%?"

Sigoudson glanced at Ronan's young face and began to put away the contempt in his heart.

Ronan said again: "Do you dare to invest in those investment institutions with such high fixed returns in the past year at huge risks?"

Sigoudson smiled: "Mr. Anderson was joking." He changed the topic: "I saw your investment case yesterday, and it was indeed very successful."

Ronan no longer mentioned what he had just said: "We will be responsible for every dollar investment in our clients."

Based on investments such as Germany, island countries, India and South Korea, the negotiations between the Pacific Investment Foundation and Mirad International Holdings Group went very smoothly. After Ronan and Sigoodson's interview, the two sides quickly entered the actual negotiation stage.

The Pacific Investment Foundation's financing to Millard International Group is based on each natural year as one period, with a fixed return on investment of four percent. Millard International Group will provide no less than 200 million US dollars in investment to the Pacific Film Foundation every year for the next five years.

Another point is that this part of the funds can be used to invest in any legal industry, not a special film fund investment.

When Relativity Entertainment urgently needs funds in other aspects, it also has external funding support.

Millard International Group has established a first phase investment of US$200 million, which is a lot of money, but it cannot solve the problem of Universal Pictures that Ronan thinks of.

It is never easy to attract investment, and tens of billions of dollars of funds are really difficult to solve.

Of course, as long as there is a slight possibility, Ronan has to fight for it, so he took the time to come to the Los Angeles branch of Bank of America and met Judith, an old acquaintance.

The former business manager is already the director of all Los Angeles credit businesses.

Judith and Ronan are also old acquaintances, and asked with a smile: "Do you need financial support?"

Relativity Entertainment and Ronan have timely repayments and never default on their personal debts. They have always been high-quality customers of Bank of America.

Ronan smiled and said, "Yes, I may need a large loan."

"A big deal?" Judith didn't take it seriously. According to the actual situation of Relativity Entertainment, he asked: "Isn't it cost hundreds of millions of dollars?"

Ronan put away his smile and said seriously: "It may cost billions of dollars."

Judith was startled, looked at Ronan and asked, "Are you kidding?" She looked at Ronan for a while, confirmed that Ronan was not kidding, and asked slowly, "What are you doing? You actually want to borrow so much money?"

Ronan said: "Trade secret."

Judith adjusted her mood and tone and said, "I can't help you, I don't have permission. To be precise, no bank can lend you so much money. If you want to borrow $100 million, with your good reputation in the past, you don't even need a mortgage, but..."

She smiled bitterly and said, "Ronan, we are old friends, and we don't tell you unnecessary things. Even if you use Relativity Entertainment as collateral, you will not be able to borrow billions of dollars. No bank will lend you the funds raising and risk control involved..."

Without further ado, Ronan can understand that it is impossible for Relativity Entertainment to borrow funds that exceed the value of the external evaluation.

Ronan simply asked, "Judith, if I need money within this year, how much can you lend for Relativity Entertainment at most?"

Judith thought carefully for a while and said, "I can apply for about 500 million US dollars from above, but for such a large loan, the approval process will take time to go through, and the corresponding assets or company shares must be used as collateral."

Ronan nodded: "I understand."

After leaving Bank of America, Ronan went to other banks to test it out, and the answer he got was not as good as Judith.

Later, he contacted Wall Street specifically. He was not very interested in this acquisition similar to making a fortune by making money, and the strength of several small companies that were interested was much different.

The next day, Robert Lee came to Ronan's office again.

"Universal Studios is very nervous and can't hear any specific information." Robert Lee sat on a chair opposite Ronan's desk and said directly: "I specially asked someone to go to the headquarters of Vivendi Group in France to collect information. After many twists and turns, it can finally be confirmed that Vivendi Group does want to sell Universal Studios to cash out to repay several imminent debts. Moreover, they have had preliminary contact with a company in the United States. I believe it will be made public in the future."

Ronan nodded and asked, "Which company?"

Robert Lee replied: "NBC."

"nbc?" Ronan was really not surprised at all: "They are interested in Universal Pictures for a long time."

According to relevant information collected by Connie, when Panasonic Group sold Universal Pictures to Seagram Group, NBC had participated in the acquisition, but was eliminated because of the low bid.

Later, the Sigram Group encountered a crisis. NBC TV proposed to acquire Universal Pictures, but the bid of 6 billion US dollars was directly rejected by Sigram. Then Vivendi directly acquired all the businesses of Sigram Group for 34 billion US dollars.

NBC's two acquisitions of Universal Pictures were hit, and there was no other reason, and the bid was too low.

It is obvious that NBC has always wanted to spend the lowest price to win Universal Pictures.

Unexpectedly, Universal Pictures went around and once again became in touch with NBC.

Robert Lee said at this time: "We have no idea what step the two sides have contacted, but Vivendy seems to be unhappy with the NBC's bid. It is said that at the latest no later than the end of August, they will publicly promote the Universal Pictures Entertainment Group in order to sell it at a higher price."

Ronan thought for a while and asked, "What do you think is Vivendi's psychological reserve price?"

"It's hard to guess." Robert Lee thought about it and said: "There is a situation that can be learned from. Vivendi urgently needs to deal with a loan of about $11 billion."

Ronan nodded slightly: "I understand."

If this is the psychological bottom price of Vivendi Group, it will be $1 billion less than Robert Eiger's expected.

But is Relativity Entertainment short of the $1 billion company?

Therefore, there is no meaning for more than one billion less than one billion.

Thinking of this, Ronan was a little depressed. An opportunity was placed in front of him. Even if he lost all his money or even borrowed all his money, he could be said to be powerless.

This feeling is very bad.

Ronan quickly got rid of this emotion, thought of the possible opportunities, and said, "Robert, after Vivendi makes a public announcement, you will contact them for me to express a desire for relativity entertainment to raise funds and participate in the acquisition."

Robert Lee asked: "We really want to participate in the acquisition?"

"On the one hand, we are practicing to accumulate experience." Ronan tried not to let his frustration affect himself: "On the other hand, we can see if we can use this period that will inevitably cause turbulence in Universal Pictures and gain some benefits from it, such as the Hulk's film and television adaptation copyright."

Robert Lee said: "I get it."

Then, Ronan called Robert Eiger and the three of them discussed for a long time.
Chapter completed!