Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay

Twitter-Musk trial on  billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay


Musk’s plan to buy Twitter has worried policymakers around the world.

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Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday. Delaware Court of Chancery chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ruled in favor of an expedited 5-day trial, to take place in October, after a hearing conducted via teleconference.

Twitter is seeking to enforce Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company despite Musk’s intentions to back out of the deal.

During the hearing, Twitter’s lawyer, Bill Savitt of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, argued that Twitter’s request for a September trial was well in line with the timelines for similar cases in the past. He added that a quick trial schedule is imperative to stop the ongoing harm Twitter has experienced from the uncertainty of the deal’s closure and alleged disparagement by Musk.

Savitt also alleged Musk’s attempts to delay the trial may be a ploy to “run out the clock” by leaving little time for appeals before the debt commitments he made to finance the deal expire.

Musk’s lawyer, Andrew Rossman of Quinn Emanuel, argued the expedited timeline was far too aggressive for his team to review the massive data trove at Twitter, which Musk wants to review to verify the percentage of spam accounts on the platform.

Rossman charged that Twitter wants “to continue to shroud in secrecy” that number and failed to provide the information Musk asked of the company earlier.

But Savitt claimed that determining the percentage of spam accounts is not necessary in this case, since “nothing in the merger agreement turns on that question.”

In July Musk, via his attorneys, sent a letter to Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde explaining why the billionaire believed his acquisition should no longer proceed. The lawyers alleged that Twitter underreported the number of spam and fraud accounts on its messaging service and failed to send Musk information that could presumably help the executive better calculate those statistics.

Twitter later sued Musk and some of his associates in late July over allegations that the billionaire “refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests.”

At the time, Twitter was seeking a 4-day trial to commence in September.

Musk and his attorneys, however, later asked the court to deny Twitter’s request for a fast trial. Instead, the billionaire and his lawyers want a court trial to take place next year, alleging that Twitter initiated a “sudden request for warp speed after two months of foot-dragging and obfuscation,” according to a court filing.



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