Hollywood Hunter

Cooperating with this high-level Washington operation in Yugoslavia, apart from a dispensable commission, the biggest benefit of the Westeros system is to further closely link its private military forces with the US government.

The Military Consulting and Security Services Corporation (MCSS) in the United States controlled by the Westeros family is already a contracted partner of the CIA.

After this operation, the Ukrainian Frontline Military Service Company (UFMS) in Ukraine also actually achieved this goal.

With this heavy status, Simon's private military force can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Because as the cooperation deepens, there are more and more secrets that are not humane, and the less people dare to uncover the lid easily. Those who make such attempts are almost equal to the US government. With the legal privacy of an officially recognized hiding place, Simon can use these private weapons more safely when necessary.

Listen to Celia Miller's report on Saturday morning, and leave the afternoon to Joseph Schrapp and Paul Spatz, two political leaders.

After last year’s mid-term elections, not counting some of the hidden layouts and the political lobbying departments of various subsidiaries, the Westeros family was divided into two, and Joseph Schrapp was mainly responsible. Washington’s political trends and bill lobbying, Paul Spatz is responsible for implementing the Westeros system’s intensive farming plan in the U.S. states, and intends to infiltrate the Westeros family’s political influence to the U.S. states and counties in the next few years. And even specific constituencies.

As long as Paul Spitz’s goal is achieved, the Westeros system will be able to more smoothly and silently influence the domestic political trend of the United States, and it will not easily attract too obvious attention.

Starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting time for each person is two hours.

It is mainly to resolve issues that both parties are not suitable for discussing in phone calls and emails that may be tapped.

After showing off his muscles through last year's midterm elections, what Simon has to do now is to keep a low profile to the greatest extent possible.

Whether it was members of Congress who were directly funded by the Westeros family or benefited indirectly from the sniper plan, Simon has not mentioned any new requirements to them in the past few months, except for some bills that have been promoted earlier. At the beginning of the year, the Westeros family, who expressed their opinions to several big bosses in Washington, set up Washington in order to protect themselves.

In fact, the various bills closely related to the Westeros system proceeded smoothly, as well as the Black Rock merger that was just finalized in the last few days. All these have allowed Simon to recoup a considerable return on his investment last year.

With so many benefits, Simon will not be stupid enough to deliberately find something to show the existence of the Westeros system in Washington.

After finishing work in the afternoon, Simon took a helicopter to Manhattan.

I will attend a reception for the Lauder family tonight, mainly to celebrate that Estee Lauder will be officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the month.

As the world's largest top cosmetics giant in memory, Simon has been paying attention to Estee Lauder for a long time, and in 1991 obtained a 10% stake in Estee Lauder with US$250 million through the Apollo Management Company. In recent years, Estee Lauder has also had many cooperations with the Westeros system, and the interests of both parties are very closely related.

Simon initially hoped that Melisandre could take over 10% of Estee Lauder's shares in Apollo's hands.

However, after some subsequent operations, the sub-funds of Apollo Management Company that hold shares of Estee Lauder have all been replaced by the own capital of the Westeros system. In fact, they are completely controlled by Westeros, and 10% of the shares cannot Sophia was not interested in gaining the right to speak in Estee Lauder, and Simon did not intend to do anything more.

With the continued recovery of the North American stock market and the successful expansion of Estee Lauder in the past few years, after the launch of the IPO last year, Estee Lauder's final IPO valuation reached 4.3 billion US dollars, the number of shares issued accounted for 15% of the total equity, and the funds raised 650 million US dollars. Half of the shares belonged to the Estée Lauder family were sold, and half belonged to additional issuance to raise funds for future corporate development.

Based on this IPO valuation, in less than four years, Apollo Management’s initial US$250 million investment has increased by 72%.

Moreover, this is just the beginning.

The industry is generally optimistic about Estee Lauder's development prospects. Many analysts predict that the market value of Estee Lauder can easily exceed $5 billion after listing. This data is far from the $50 billion market value of Estee Lauder in Simon's memory, but it also means Estee Lauder has great growth potential in the future.

Because it is optimistic, the Apollo Management Company's sub-fund, which is wholly owned by Westeros, will continue to participate in Estee Lauder's IPO subscription this time, and will still maintain a 10% shareholding after listing. The Estée Lauder family has taken care of this company very well. Simon will not try to pursue control of this company, but will try to keep increasing its shares in the future.

Upon arriving in Manhattan, Simon first had dinner with several persons in charge of the Westeros Building project to discuss the construction progress of the building until seven o'clock, arriving at the party on time. The party was held in the Lauder family's mansion on the Upper East Side. The guests were basically celebrities from Wall Street and fashion, and most of them knew Simon.

After greetings with Ronald Lauder, the head of the Lauder family, Simon entered the party hall on the first floor of the villa and immediately attracted a lot of attention.

The first to meet Ronald Lauder's daughter Irene Lauder.

The two parties had a dewy marriage, and it was the first time for a girl at the time, but the two did not contact each other several times.

When I first met, the young girl who had just graduated from university and was a little bit arrogant and arrogant is now obviously a lot more stable, and her predominant temperament has become more and more demure and elegant. She also held a young man's arm, obviously her boyfriend.

After shaking hands with Simon generously, Irene Lauder introduced, "Simon, this is my fiance Eric Hinterhoff."

Simon and the young man shook hands, and accidentally noticed that Irene Lauder still had something in his eyes...well, probably something that should be called expectation, and he smiled and complimented: "You two are really good friends. bless all of you."

Eric Hinterhoff was probably the same age as Simon. He didn’t seem to be restrained in front of him. He smiled to express his gratitude, but he showed his feet quickly, obviously and eagerly introducing him and Irene Lauder as college classmates. After many years, he finally achieved a positive result, Barabara, probably wanted to show that the relationship between the two was very stable in front of Simon.

Simon pretended not to notice the small details of Irene Lauder's slightly frowning, and chatted with the two of them. He saw Qusi Gough appearing nearby, beckoning to the girl, and naturally embraced her when she approached. The baby-faced supermodel’s slender waist raised a toast to Irene Lauder and walked not far away from Goldman Sachs head Jon Coshine, who was already nodding at him. I just saw the meeting room.

Jon Cohin is the new chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs who took office last year, succeeding Robert Rubin and Stephen Friedman, who left one after another.

Simon also knows that Jon Coshine will not stay in this position for too long. Not surprisingly, he will hand over the CEO position to another famous Goldman Sachs executive Henry Paulson in Simon’s memory next year. , I only have one title of chairman of the board of directors, and it still won't last for a few years.

Of course, this does not prevent Simon from chatting and laughing with each other.

The guy who can climb to the top of the Wall Street Pyramid, no matter whether it is personal strength or identity background, none will be simple.

On the other side, seeing Simon walking away, Irene Lauder was about to walk towards him, and noticed that her fiancé was staring at the slender figure next to someone, and she immediately teased, "Isn't it nice?"

Eric Hinterhoff was taken aback when he heard the words, he quickly retracted his gaze, and explained to Irene Lauder with a kind words: "I just, it seems, isn't Westeros married?"

Irene Lauder stared at each other: "Yeah, so, are you envious?"

Eric Hinterhoff shook his head quickly: "Of course not, Irene, I only love you forever."

He stretched his hand over, and wanted to hold his fiancee's waist.

I wanted to avoid it and realized that this was a public place. After all, the two were already engaged. A refusal on the spot might prevent the fiancé from coming to the stage. Irene Lauder still let him hold her arms, not forgetting to warn: "Remind you, Eric K, I will never tolerate this kind of thing, not once."

Eric Hinterhoff said without hesitation: "I assure you, Irene."

Irene Lauder let her fiancé go, but still quietly took a look at the back of a guy not far away, secretly thinking about it, the disgusting guy who was bothered.

Simon didn’t know what Irene Lauder was thinking. He was talking to Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Cohin about the upcoming US$20 billion national debt issued by the Mexican government, which was used to solve the Mexican economy after the Mexican peso crisis last year with the support of the United States. A batch of bonds in distress.

Of course, this is the bailout that can only be obtained after Mexico signed a series of unequal treaties, so it has considerable repayment guarantee.

The previous head of Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, had just been promoted from the president's economic policy assistant to secretary of the treasury at the beginning of the year. He directly used his power to hand over the issuance of the bonds to Goldman Sachs.

Speaking of which, this kind of operation is exactly the same as that of Henry Paulson, the successor of Jon Cochin, during the time and space of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Simon has no opinion on this. The Westeros system will not get involved in the investment banking business in the short term. Talking about this topic is mainly because Cersei Capital’s Black Rock Asset Management Company, which holds hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, happens to belong to various types of bonds Of the highest quality buyers.

Investment banks are responsible for the issuance of stocks and bonds, and funds purchase stocks and bonds. This is the basic process of the operation of American financial products.

Investment banks and funds therefore have various interest linkages.

There are good investment opportunities between investment banks and funds that are closely related. Investment banks will definitely think of each other as soon as possible. Similarly, sometimes investment banks need help from funds. For example, when they need to take over some stocks and bonds that cannot be sold, they also need related funds to sell. . Overall, this is a relationship of mutual benefit and mutual assistance.

After years of cooperation, Wall Street's current Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have roughly this relationship with Cersei Capital, and a first Boston can be added in the future.

Lehman Brothers, who had the opportunity to work closely together, has long been completely forgotten by Simon.

Simon stopped talking with Jon Coshine until Bill Spurt and Grace Spurt came over to say hello.

The scale of Estee Lauder's IPO is very small, at least it is not worth mentioning in front of Eagle IPO, so the Goldman Sachs family is enough to eat, this time there is no room for the first Boston to intervene, Bill Spoult is with his wife Catch a ride.

Grace’s client, Qusi Gove, signed a makeup endorsement with Estee Lauder last year. According to Grace’s private statement, this is the result of competition from brands such as Revlon and Maybelline. Qusi Gove has a baby face in a light makeup state. 'LovelyBaby', once painted with heavy makeup, immediately transformed into a stunning dark luoli, coupled with the rising popularity of girls, it is completely the best endorsement candidate for makeup products.

Not only that, the new media operations department of Elite, which is headed by Grace, signed a $5 million online marketing contract this year after a trial cooperation with Estee Lauder last year.

One thing Simon values ​​Estee Lauder is to dare to try new things and keep pace with the times.

In my memory, in the Internet age, Estee Lauder kept up with the trend and smashed more than 80% of its annual marketing budget online, and achieved very good results. Therefore, many brands such as Revlon remained almost in decline. Maintained long-term strong growth.

Grace always maintains a proper sense of distance with Simon in front of others. Knowing that this is a woman who thinks for herself, Simon is also very cooperative. She also actively asked about the operation of the new media department and welcomed the guests at Ronald Lauder and his wife. After joining the conversation, he provided many suggestions for the marketing cooperation between the two parties on the Internet platform.

Everyone was chatting enthusiastically, unknowingly it was already past eight o'clock.

After drinking a few glasses of red wine in a row, Simon had to temporarily interrupt the conversation and said sorry to go to the bathroom.

Obviously to show the importance of Simon this distinguished guest, Ronald Lauder did not ask the waiter to take Simon to the public bathroom on the first floor for the guests. Instead, he caught his daughter who didn’t know when she came together and asked her to take Simon to go. upstairs.

Before Simon could refuse, Irene Lauder had already made a please gesture very politely, with a very decent appearance.

The two of them went upstairs together. They had just turned around the corner of the stairs that the guests downstairs could not see. A certain girl who seemed to be patient for a while stopped pretending to be a lady. There were some small questions in her tone: "Mr. Westeros, you It can be disguised, as if nothing happened to us."

Simon followed the girl slightly, feeling the good smell of Irene Lauder and the arrogant tone that seemed to return to the evening when the girl was probably a girl, and smiled: "I think this is right. The respect of an engaged lady, isn't it?"

Irene Lauder paused and snorted slightly, seemingly unwilling: "But, you took my first time."

Simon said: "This is my honor."

Irene Lauder said again: "I mean, then, you didn't take the initiative to contact me anymore, and you want me to take the initiative to move in."

Simon explained: "You know, I'm already married."

Irene Lauder curled her lips: "This excuse is really awkward. Just now, someone was holding a girl who was not his wife. And, Mr. Westeros, I increasingly discovered that you are in a circle. It’s notorious."

"That's why I took the initiative to stay away from you, you are a good girl."

"Why doesn't it sound like a compliment?"

"I promise, absolutely," Simon said, seeing Irene Lauder continuing up the stairs and reaching the fourth floor of the five-story mansion, and asked, "Are we going to the rooftop?"

Irene Lauder also found out something was wrong, it was enough to be on the second floor. However, hearing Simon say that, he couldn't help but teased: "You want to be on the rooftop... that's really nasty."

"..."

Perceiving Simon's depression, he finally won the move. Irene Lauder slightly lifted his chin, hesitated for a moment, did not go up, but took Simon through the corridor to the door of a room. After a slight hesitation, he pushed open the door.

Simon just glanced into the room and knew that this was Irene Lauder's bedroom, but he didn't stop, walked in calmly, and complimented: "Your room is really good."

Irene Lauder also wanted a man to actively ignore this. Seeing that he had broken it, she couldn't change the room temporarily. Standing at the door and pointing to the bathroom, she suddenly remembered and couldn't help asking: "You are... ...That's it."

Simon paused, probably understood, and smiled: "Of course, girl, you are really ‘dirty’."

Simon just subconsciously said something like this. There is no accurate adjective for ‘dirty’ in English, so he casually used a ‘Dirty’ which is the same word as Irene Lauder’s ‘dirty’ just now.

However, the English ‘Dirty’ is also very interesting.

For example, dirty.

Irene Lauder had clearly misunderstood her, and she was immediately unhappy. She just said Simon ‘Dirty’, how could this guy describe her in reverse. So subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold the man's shirt, facing Simon's puzzled gaze, couldn't help but hide slightly, then turned back again, aggressively saying: "You want to apologize to me."

Simon helplessly raised his hands slightly in a surrender gesture: "Well, I apologize."

Irene Lauder felt Simon's insincere tone, and instead grasped the man's hand tightly. Her eyes continued to look at each other, seemingly dissatisfied, entangled, and somewhat eager to try.

Simon waited for a moment, put down his raised hands, one of them leaned forward, grabbed the girl's chin and slightly provoked it, then lowered his head and kissed it.

However, within ten minutes, the two went downstairs one after another.

Re-joining the entertainment, because it was not long, neither the parents of Irene Lauder nor the girl’s fiance noticed anything abnormal, but Grace looked at Simon in a meaningful way.

For the party that started at 7 o'clock in the evening, Simon only stayed for two hours, and left right after 9 o'clock. By the way, he took away Qusi Gove in the enviable eyes of some other models in the fashion circle who attended at the same time.

The next day is Sunday.

Still unable to relax.

After the New Year, the two women, Chen Qing, who returned from the other side of the ocean, after this period of brewing, came up with an investment plan in the hardware field, mainly about the VCD industry. Simon made an appointment to talk with the two women in the morning.