Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 798 Investment in the hardware field

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In conjunction with this operation of Washington's high-level officials in Yugoslavia, in addition to a dispensable commission, the biggest benefit of the Westeros system is to further link its own private military power with the US government.

Military Consulting and Security Services (mCSS), which is controlled by the Westeros family in the United States, is already a contract partner of cia.

After this operation, Ukraine's Ukrainian Frontline Military Services Company (ufms) also de facto achieved this goal.

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

Because with the deepening of cooperation, there are more and more secrets that are inhumane to outsiders, and no one dares to open the cover easily. Those who make such attempts are almost equal to the enemy of the US government. With the legal privacy of an officially sanctioned hideout, Simon can use these personal weapons with greater confidence when necessary.

Listen to Celia Miller's briefing Saturday morning, and the afternoon is reserved for the two political field heads, Joseph Schlapp and Paul Spaihts.

After last year's midterm elections, not counting some of the secret arrangements in the entrainment, the Westeros family's relatively clear political leaders were divided into two parts. Joseph Schlapp was mainly responsible for Washington's political trends and bill lobbying. Paul Spaihts is responsible for implementing the Westeros system's intensive cultivation plan in the states of the United States, intending to infiltrate the political influence of the Westeros family to every state, county and even specific constituencies in the United States in the next few years.

As long as Paul Spaihts' goals are achieved, the Westeros system can further influence the direction of American domestic politics in the future, and it will not attract too much attention.

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

Mainly to resolve matters in person that the two sides are not suitable for discussing in the phone and email that may be hacked.

After flexing his muscles in last year's midterm elections, all Simon has to do now is to keep a low profile as much as possible.

Whether it was the congressmen who were directly funded by the Westeros family last year or indirectly benefited from the sniper plan, Simon did not mention any new requirements to them for several months, except for some bills that had been pushed earlier, and fulfilled as much as possible. At the beginning of the year, Simon made a promise to Washington that the Westeros family deployed Washington to protect themselves.

In fact, the smooth progress of various bills closely related to the Westeros system, as well as the Black Rock merger that has just been finalized in recent days, all these have made Simon's investment last year sufficiently rewarded.

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

At the end of the afternoon's work, Simon took a helicopter to Manhattan.

Tonight is going to a reception at The Estée Lauder Companies to celebrate the long-established cosmetics giant's upcoming official listing on the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the month.

As the world's largest top cosmetics giant in memory, Simon began to pay attention to the company early, and in 1991 acquired a 10% stake in Estee Lauder for $250 million through Apollo Management. In recent years, Estee Lauder has also cooperated with the Westeros system a lot, and the interests of the two parties have become more and more closely related.

Simon initially hoped that Melisandre would accept Apollo's 10 percent stake in Estee Lauder.

However, after some subsequent operations, the sub-funds of Apollo Management Company that held Estee Lauder shares were all replaced by the only capital of the Westeros system, which was actually fully controlled by Westeros Company, and 10% of the shares could not be obtained. Sophia is not interested in Estee Lauder's right to speak, and Simon will not plan to do it again.

With the continued recovery of the North American stock market and the successful expansion of Estee Lauder in the past few years, after launching its IPO last year, Estee Lauder's final IPO valuation reached US$4.3 billion, the number of issued shares accounted for 15% of the total share capital, and the funds raised US$650 million, of which Half of the shares belonging to the Estee Lauder family are sold and half are additional offerings.

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

And, this is just the beginning.

The industry is generally optimistic about the development prospects of Estee Lauder, and many analysts predict that the market value of Estee Lauder will easily exceed 5 billion US dollars after listing. This data is still far from Estee Lauder's $50 billion market value in Simon's memory, but it also means Estee Lauder's huge growth potential in the future.

Because of its optimism, the sub-fund of Apollo Management Company, which is completely affiliated with Westeros Company, will continue to participate in Estee Lauder's IPO subscription this time, and will maintain a 10% stake after listing. The Estee Lauder family has managed this company very well, and Simon will not try to pursue control of this company, but will continue to increase his stake in the future.

Arriving in Manhattan, Simon first had dinner with several people in charge of the Westeros Tower project, discussing the construction progress of the building, and arrived at the party on time at seven o'clock. The party was held in the Estée Lauder family's mansion on the Upper East Side, and the guests were basically Wall Street and fashion celebrities, most of whom knew Simon.

After greeting Ronald Lauder and his wife, the head of the Lauder family who personally welcomed the guests, Simon entered the party hall in the mansion and immediately attracted a lot of attention.

The first to greet was Ronald Lauder's daughter, Ai.

Lynn Lauder.

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

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