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_romantic
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States455 Posts
July 26 2011 08:48 GMT
#1
Let's say that you've devoted your life to setting up an enterprise for the big time, like elder Kwok did. Massed like the Persians at the Dardanelles are the waves of hot money, just itching to find a way into every single vaguely profitable, quarter-baked idea being pitched by someone isn't White and Protestant. (They call this "seeking hidden returns in emerging markets".) The investment bankers across the table from you know this; that's why, under their Hermes and fitted Armani, they're grinning like John Kerry's wife on Botox.



1997 hasn't happened yet, the mainland and the WTO haven't finished their little dance yet, so you're the only fucking game in town. Of course, the Nikkei's still hurting, but really, all that did was keep all the poor Japanese banks benched on the sidelines. And just in case the trust fund kiddies ever wised up and wondered all their money was going, they had even come up with a nice, sanitized name for you--"Asia ex-Japan". "Opportunity, ex-the-one-time-we-got-it-wrong," land of fucking hopes and dreams, the Wild Wild East.



But back to you. You're seasoned, you're a pro. You know dumb money when you see it, no matter what language it speaks. You'll take their money. Easy. Hands down, no problem. But there's one catch. With normal equity, they can buy control. Take over enough of your public shares, and you might end up having to kiss asses every single month in board meetings. That's intolerable. Not only is it annoying, but they'll have their hands on your company. Your baby. Your magnum opus, your raison d'etre. No fucking way.



You're just about to tell off the investment bankers at the other end of the table when one of them, a little cleverer than the rest, says the magic words. Class B. Create Class B shares with ten times the voting power of Class A shares, restrict the buying list to you and your children, and voila, you can get the best of both worlds. All that gweilo captial, going straight into your pocket, but you still get to have 85% of the voting power in your firm.



So you go ahead and sign on the dotted line. It's the first time you've signed your name in English. You phone your loyal secretary Anson, ask him if he can come up for a moment, and when he comes out, he becomes the first owner of a cool million Class B shares. You finish disbursing all the shares, leaving yourself a 51% stake... and then you die. Now it's an open question. Who wins? Your loyal devoted son, the faithless, feckless one, your ditzy daughter, or your third wife?



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Cassel_Castle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States820 Posts
July 26 2011 09:08 GMT
#2
The one who wins is the one who the others *believe* won.
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
July 26 2011 13:29 GMT
#3
I feel incredibly confused and stupid TT
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caradoc
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada3022 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-26 17:27:20
July 26 2011 17:26 GMT
#4
Those who see the irony in this situation and can propagate yet another facet to the truism that predatory capitalism leaves the whole of the world worse off. Those who play the game are decidedly worse off, even the those who technically 'win' according to the game-internal rules.
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea...
sashamunguia
Profile Joined February 2011
Mexico423 Posts
July 27 2011 03:46 GMT
#5
the third wife of course, she's a bitch



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