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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Lenovo’s acquisition of the century witnessed the negotiations Oral / Huang Yunlong author / Li Shaking big news Plane through the thick clouds, flying over the Pacific Ocean. Lenovo 10 we come from the negotiations come to the United States team is Raleigh (North Carolina) and IBM PCD (Personal Computing Division) headquarters on his way. This is already the summer of 2004, and negotiations have entered a substantive stage, for Lenovo’s negotiating team, the initial euphoria, shock, fear, confusion and fuss all these questions are already in the past, we have only one purpose - to do careful and meticulous Good job at hand for every one to ensure the accuracy of due diligence Note ① . I clearly remember the first plenary session of the negotiating team in February 2004. It was shortly after New Year’s day, I suddenly received a very formal notices of meetings, so I went to the headquarters on the third floor conference room meeting. It is located on the third floor of a building Lenovo’s highest-conference rooms, meeting in ordinary Yang, and VP who mostly use this conference room, conference room can accommodate about 50 people, equipment is very complete. In order to be prepared for the content of the meeting, I gave the boss called and asked what would be the boss did not tell me, very mysterious look. When I went, the conference room already had some people, and later came in a lot of people, I come to think of time not long ago, a lot of people do not know, then know that negotiation of the project team members, are the relevant departments of the General Manager of or person in charge. We all sat down, the vice president of Qiao entered. He began to introduce the project situation, saying that IBM made through Merrill Lynch to sell Lenovo PC business, plans intentions. Two years ago, IBM has also talked to Lenovo, but it was premature to think that there is no acceptance, but now the situation has changed, Lenovo strateg