The problem with Elon Musk’s high stakes plan to pull out of $US44bn Twitter deal

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Virtually the moment Elon Musk signed the deal, the overall US sharemarket, which had been falling since the start of this year, accelerated its decline. It has fallen a further 14 per cent | OPINION from Stephen Bartholomeusz

It has been obvious, almost since the ink dried on his contract to buy Twitter for $US44 billion that Elon Musk was looking for ways to either reduce the price or walk away from the deal.and to try to save more than $US10 billion of his net worth. The reason for Musk’s change of heart lies in what’s happened in the market, and to his own wealth, since he agreed to pay $US54.20 a share for Twitter in early April.

Given that Musk was personally on the hook for the $US33.

Musk signed a deal with very limited escape clauses and made an easy exit from it even more difficult by declaring back in April that: “I don’t care about the economics at all.” Lawyers in the US have said it is almost, albeit not quite, without precedent that the courts would allow a merger agreement to be torn up.Musk is a most unusual and eccentric character, however, unafraid to thumb his nose at authority.

 

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