X Corp. sues Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the law firm received from Twitter for defeating Elon Musk's bid to walk away from his $44B Twitter buyout
Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter …
Reuters Jonathan Stempel
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Discussion
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@ravickan.bsky.social
@ravickan.bsky.social
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there's poking the bear and then there's whatever the hell this is [embedded post]
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@Celeste_pewter@mastodon.social
Celeste Pewter
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So, he's mad mad. — https://www.reuters.com/... Also, I can't imagine living life this way, especially when you're so wealthy. — If he was a different person, he could be building libraries, donating funding to saving birds or medical research and making a difference in the …
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@TitterDaily Wachtell brags about how many former Delaware judges work at their firm. They specialize in institutionalized corruption.
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@sindap
Sujeet Indap
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Wachtell's pitch to Twitter when Elon started to get cold feet in June 2022: https://www.ft.com/... [image]
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@scottnover
Scott Nover
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Musk alleges that Wachtell breached its fiduciary duty by arranging a “success fee” contingent on Twitter closing the $44 billion sale (to Musk). Stay with me. Musk claims that outgoing Twitter executives were happy to saddle him with the burden.
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@mshannahmurphy
Hannah Murphy
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NEW: Elon Musk is suing the elite law firm that helped the previous Twitter board close his $44bn buyout when he tried to back out of the deal He wants to recover an “enormous” $90mn fee paid to the firm hours before the deal closed w/ @sindap https://www.ft.com/...