Twitter Assembles Legal Team to Sue Musk Over Dropped Takeover

Bloomberg2022-07-11

The company hired big-hitter Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & KatzTwitter aiming to file a lawsuit in Delaware early this weekTwitter Inc. has hired merger law heavyweight Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as ...

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Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.Musk’s lawyer claimed Twitter failed to comply with its obligations in the merger agreement.Twitter’s board chair Bret Taylor said the company is still committed to closing the deal at the agreed-upon price and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement. “We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery,” Taylor wrote.Twitter shares were down about 6% after hours on Friday.In the letter, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler said that “Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations.”Ringler claimed that Twitter did not provide Musk with relevant business information he requested, as Ringler said the contract would require
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