Chapter 16
June debt, it must be fast.
Since joining Dingge Firm last year, Liu Chuandong has had a hard time not receiving big orders. It was not until the end of last year that the situation improved.
With the courage of his peers, he gradually became smaller and did not dare to take advantage of the opportunity of pure risk agents to operate a well-known business, and faced difficulties and won several high-risk customers in succession.
Although these big customers have not collected the money yet, the project layout and operation seem to be smooth. As long as things can be done, there is no need to worry that those customers will be reluctant to pay in the end.
Moreover, because it is a pure risk agent, Liu Chuandong's price when he signed the contract was relatively high, so no case charges less than 8 million yuan. In the law firm, the charging standards for risk agents are several times higher than those for drought and flood-prone lawsuits.
For example, in those ordinary lawsuits that owe money to collect debts, some cases have clear evidence, but they are difficult to execute and they cannot get back the money. If the law firm signs a risk agent with the parties until they ask for money, then the charge will be over.
The ordinary way of playing may only accept an agency fee worth a few points and up to ten points. And the "only pay the lawyer's fee when you get the money" model is possible to give 30%.
Because in this case, the risk of the law firm is very high, almost equivalent to having to take both black and white, and hiring a debt collection company to work together. For debt collection companies, it is possible to have half of the money they meet for those who are almost dead debts.
On this day, as usual, he did not go to work in the firm, but maintained leadership relations outside. In the broker circle in Beijing, no one usually cared about this office model. After all, everyone is doing business that builds relationships, so it’s better to see the results, and the process is not easy to monitor.
Of course, the work of "maintaining leadership relationships" must at least start from noon.
Most of the time, it’s the point before supper, and then dinner, entertainment venues, and all night shifts... It’s really hard.
Therefore, when Liu Chuandong was awakened by the secretary of the firm's boss Du Qiuming on the phone, he was actually still sleeping soundly, eliminating the fatigue of treating guests last night.
It took him a few minutes to figure out the situation.
However, once he figured it out, he immediately became scared and broke up his past office.
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"When the risk assessment was first discussed, many people reminded you! Such customers can't be accepted! You should be fine, pat me and sign an internal guarantee! OK, now it's done business!"
Just over half an hour later, in the partner conference room of Dingge Firm, Du Qiuming threw the folder at hand directly into Liu Chuandong's face without any shame.
Liu Chuandong is just a new partner who is respected and has no foundation. He is just because he is not good at doing well and has closed the brokerage company and came to join him.
If it weren't for the fact that he knew several leaders of the General Administration and could use it in the contacts at hand, who would have been patient with such a poor student who had no academic qualifications and had not even gotten a lawyer's certificate?
So, no one will give him any face if he really causes a big deal.
When Liu Chuandong heard Boss Du say he wanted to do his business, he immediately became timid and didn't even bother to worry about being smashed and venting his anger.
He begged for mercy quickly: "Director, this matter is also an unexpected risk. There is no risk at all... If the customer hadn't known that others would not dare to take on this business, they would not have offered such a high offer. If they had made a successful profit, they would not have scored money..."
However, Du Qiuming ignored him at all, and just continued to ask the secretary to himself: "Xiao Zhang, have you calculated? How much is the cost of these cases currently invested in the institute."
The female secretary in charge of the meeting minutes quickly looked through the relevant documents and replied: "According to the external quotation and deduction rate, it is close to 3 million. Among them, 1 million is a hard expense, that is, the lawyer fees to the court, and the external expenses for various arrangements for self-directing and acting lawsuits. The rest is the manual discount in the institute. If calculated according to the cost price, this part can be suppressed - as calculated, the actual total loss is 2 million."
In terms of human terms, the first type of expenses mentioned by the female secretary is that the law firm has to pay others, and that part cannot be saved even if it is a dime. The second type is the labor service of the firm, which is theoretically calculated based on the salary of the personnel. However, considering that the business is a bit useless and there is a difference between external quotations and internal costs, we can get some discounts.
In other words, according to the minimum statistical perspective, Liu Chuandong's rash business orders have caused the company to lose at least 2 million in vain in the past six months.
What’s even more terrible is that Dingge Firm is a partnership, not even a “coal unit”.
I believe that as long as I am not a legal ignorant, I am familiar with the strange legal significance of the existence of "partnership": the partners of such enterprises bear unlimited joint and several liability for corporate debts.
In other words, unlike when starting a company, the equity capital will be lost after the loss. Partners of a partnership will die for the company's external debts, and after paying the company's money, they will also have to pay their personal property.
Perhaps most people think that since partnerships are so weird, they should not continue to exist in modern society.
However, this model is very common in many law firms or other firms.
The main reason is that this model facilitates dividends not based on the investment ratio. Because these companies have high personal cooperation attributes, whether the company can do a good job depends entirely on the personal strength of the top brands (can be the design strength of the chief designer in the design firm, or the defense ability of the top lawyer in the law firm, etc.). After adopting a partnership, no matter what the investment ratio is, the articles of association can flexibly agree on who has more dividends and who has less dividends.
At the same time, under normal circumstances, various firms belong to the type of enterprise model that is almost impossible to be heavily in debt to the outside world.
Because most of the costs of these companies are their own labor expenses. They have almost no upstream suppliers and have not completed their business. At most, they will be in vain and will not lose the procurement cost.
It is precisely because of this combination of attributes that there are still a large number of unlimited joint partnerships in the law firm world.
If the trouble caused by Liu Chuandong really caused Dingge's office to make a big loss to the outside world, everyone would have to be killed by him.
Of course, those who have learned a little bit of the method also know that "the infinite joints of partners in partnerships" are only external, that is, if the institute owes foreign debts, external creditors can collect debts if they find any partner.
However, within the partner, there is still the right to recover. For example, if C commits a crime, it causes the agency to ow money from outsiders. After the partner A pays it out, he can come back to find C to close the door to settle the private debt.
In this case, it is natural that all means can be used.
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2 million! What is the algorithm for this account?
Just ask Liu Chuandong to pay out of his own pocket and pay the 2 million yuan for the institute?
In theory, the law allows this. In terms of the articles of association, the losses caused by the persistence of a single partner can be completely called personal accountability for losses caused by the persistence of a single partner.
After all, it's a partnership, not a company.
But in fact, if you do this, the firm's centripetal force will be severely damaged, and it will be difficult to recruit newcomers in the future - it will leave outsiders with a bad reputation that "the partners of Dingge Institute only care about the weight and do not take responsibility, and if something happens, they will be pushed to the newcomers."
Du Qiuming mediated with several other top partners and said at the beginning:
"Liu Chuandong, you have taken all the litigation fees and the hard expenses to external suppliers. Even if the office helps you to bear the labor expenses of your brothers, everyone will work hard - they will set an example in the future! Whoever dares to take this risk agent for going out will make it more difficult! In addition, you have invited all the leaders you know in the General Administration and let everyone accompany you together. Some things are no longer suitable for communicating with the leaders on behalf of the office."
"1 million!" Liu Chuandong kept wailing in his heart. Although he was given half less than being fully responsible, he was still discounted, but at least he had been in vain for three or four years.
Even if you don’t sell a house, you have to at least squeeze the deposits dry and then invest in other financial products in stock markets to lose money.
What's worse is the invisibility of other people's connections.
The 1 million he lost was not Bai Shao's. Du Qiuming clearly asked Liu Chuandong to use his network to compensate for part of it.
Originally, in the brokerage industry, the most important resource for everyone is the leader you know. In order to prevent face-saving, the relevant households held by someone will not let others intervene in the maintenance.
Now this situation is forcing him to invite all the leaders he knew in the General Administration and have a meal with other top partners in the institute. In this way, Liu Chuandong may be bypassed by the places where these leaders are used in the future.
Du Qiuming didn't plan to let him go:
"You only have to bear 1 million yuan, what else can you call me! Let me be more excited in the future! Learn more about the trends of experts and think tanks from various bureaus, and don't be ignorant! Professor Liu from Jinling Normal University has long been eyeing this topic. Now when you look back, it's all clues. You are not alert at all, and you dare to jump in such a high-risk vent! Tell me, if this is not the case today, would you read Professor Liu's paper? I guess you don't even know the author's academic resume!"
Liu Chuandong was not a top student at all, so of course he would not care about the trends in the academic community. At this moment, he was criticized by the director and then he noticed the invader creditor who pushed him into the abyss again.
Before he could figure it out, another partner came out to sing and be a good person on the conference table - he also gave Liu Chuandong some face.
The partner's name is Zhen Pu, who is a person who pays money and doesn't care about the matter. He asked Du Qiuming: "Old Du, just tell me, what is the origin of Professor Liu? I wondered at the first time that the second-tier school in the field of legal research like Jinling Normal University has a great man who can guide the General Administration? The second author, the name is a woman, is he the graduate student he led?"
After hearing this, Liu Chuandong was also a little grateful to Zhen Pu for helping him to change the topic and quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, this kind of brick-drawing beast is a virtue! He must have caught a female graduate student and sold the quota for the second author of the paper and did such a miserable thing..."
Chapter completed!