Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Enforce $44 Billion Buyout Deal — Insists Breach Allegations Lack Merit

Twitter Inc. has filed a lawsuit towards Elon Musk to pressure the Tesla CEO to undergo with the settlement to purchase the social medial platform for $44 billion. Twitter alleges that Musk has breached the settlement repeatedly since he signed the take care of the corporate.

Twitter v. Elon Musk: Lawsuit Battle Begins

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) has filed a lawsuit towards Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk for backing out of the deal to purchase the social media platform. The lawsuit, filed within the Delaware Court of Chancery, names Musk and his firms — X Holdings I and X Holdings II — as defendants.

Twitter alleges:

Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders as a result of the deal he signed now not serves his private pursuits.

The lawsuit explains that after Musk signed the settlement with Twitter, the market fell and the worth of his stake in Tesla, and due to this fact his private wealth, dropped by greater than $100 billion since its November 2021 peak.

The social media big additional claims that “Since signing the merger settlement, Musk has repeatedly disparaged Twitter and the deal, creating enterprise danger for Twitter and downward stress on its share worth,” stressing that the Tesla CEO’s “exit technique is a mannequin of hypocrisy” and “a mannequin of unhealthy religion.”

Regarding Musk’s claims that Twitter is in materials breach of the settlement, as Bitcoin.com News beforehand reported, the social media firm insisted that “These claims are pretexts and lack any advantage.” Twitter elaborated:

Musk, against this, has been performing towards this deal because the market began turning, and has breached the merger settlement repeatedly within the course of.

Twitter added:

Because of [the] defendants’ breaches and the uncertainty they’ve generated, Twitter faces irreparable hurt.

The lawsuit states: “Musk and his entities needs to be enjoined from additional breaches, ordered to adjust to their obligations to work towards satisfying the few closing circumstances, and ordered to shut upon satisfaction of these circumstances.”

The social media big is searching for reduction to the extent permitted underneath the merger settlement and an order forcing Musk to undergo with the buyout deal.

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