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Tesla said Wednesday it will ask shareholders to reinstate CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, which a Delaware judge voided earlier this year after ruling that the record-setting compensation deal was "deeply flawed." Tesla said the court decision created a "fundamental problem for the company." Tesla has not hired Innisfree since 2018, when it first asked shareholders to vote on Musk's pay package. Musk's pay package was invalidated after a shareholder won a lawsuit against the company earlier this year. The company also noted that "dozens of institutional stockholders" have told Tesla that they disagree with the Tornetta decision.
Persons: Elon Musk, Lola, Tesla, Elon Musk's, Musk, Innisfree, Musk's, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, Richard Tornetta, McCormick Organizations: Regency Bruin Theatre, Twitter, Board, Delaware Court Locations: Los Angeles , California, U.S, Delaware, Texas
Tesla is seeking shareholder approval for Elon Musk's pay package, which a judge previously struck down. AdvertisementWhy does Tesla's board think Elon Musk deserves a $55 billion pay package? Tesla plans to ask shareholders to vote again on Musk's $55 billion pay package after it was struck down by a Delaware Judge earlier this year. Tesla shareholders will be able to vote on the issue during the company's annual meeting in June. Musk does not receive a salary from Tesla and his pay package centered on a series of goalposts around the carmaker's financial growth, initially set in place in 2018.
Persons: Tesla, , Elon, Robyn Denholm, Denholm, Kathleen St, J, McCormick, Musk Organizations: Elon, Service, Delaware Judge, Securities and Exchange Commission, Delaware Court, Tesla, The New York Times Locations: Delaware, Texas
Facing criticism that it is overly beholden to Elon Musk, Tesla’s board of directors said on Wednesday that it would essentially give him everything he wanted, including the biggest pay package in corporate history. If setbacks in court and the car market have induced any soul searching among Tesla’s board, there was no sign of it in the latest announcement. If anything, the board doubled down on backing Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, risking riling up activist investors and more litigation. The board’s decision to ask shareholders to endorse a compensation plan for Mr. Musk that is worth about $47 billion came less than three months after a Delaware judge voided the same pay package. In addition, Mr. Musk has not presented much of a plan to restore the company’s momentum.
Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk Locations: Delaware
Things keep getting worse for Tesla
  + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Tesla might be facing another difficult quarter, Baird analysts warn. The carmaker reported a drop in its delivery numbers for the first time since 2020 last week. "We think Q1 results will be messy due to several one-time items and continue to believe Q2 estimates are likely still high," Kallo wrote, according to MarketWatch. "We speculate Tesla likely unveils both a robotaxi and a $25k vehicle," Kallo wrote. Tesla's stock dipped more than 5% on the day the delivery numbers were released and it's down more than 29% year to date.
Persons: Tesla, Baird, , Robert W, Ben Kallo, Kallo, Elon Musk's, Musk, Tesla's Organizations: Service, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Reuters, Tesla Locations: Delaware, Berlin
Trump to be deposed in dispute with media company co-founders
  + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to be deposed later this month by lawyers for co-founders of his social media company as part of a dispute over ownership in Trump Media & Technology Group which went public last week. They said in 2021 they were pledged 8.6% of pre-merger Trump Media stock for helping to launch the company. Trump Media sued Litinsky and Moss in Florida on March 24, and is seeking to strip them of their stock, which it said they failed to earn due to mismanagement. Trump owned 90% of the social media company prior to its merger last month with a blank check firm that took the company public. In midday trade on Thursday, Trump Media was down 4.2% at $46.70, valuing the company at more than $6 billion.
Persons: Donald Trump, Christopher Clark, Andy Litinsky, Wes Moss, Litinsky, Sam Glasscock, Trump Organizations: Trump Media & Technology Group, Delaware's, Chancery, Trump Media, Trump, United Atlantic Ventures Locations: New York, Moss, Florida, Delaware, Washington, Georgia
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman discussed his compensation package in a video Q&A posted on the forum. The CEO's $193 million pay package includes a mix of salary and stock. AdvertisementReddit CEO Steve Huffman has received backlash over his $193 million compensation. Related storiesThe bulk of his compensation package is now in restricted stock units and stock options. Huffman's chances of getting even richerBack at Reddit, it's unlikely that Huffman will get $193 million in compensation.
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In today's big story, we're looking at Sam Altman's sprawling AI empire amid his beef with Elon Musk . AdvertisementBut first, the sun never sets on Sam Altman's AI empire. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was thrust into the mainstream consciousness with the release of ChatGPT in 2022. Elon Musk and Sam Altman Michael M. Santiago/Getty, Nordin Catic/Getty, Tyler Le/BIThere is another tech billionaire whose vision exceeds a singular company. But unlike Musk, Altman has, somewhat incredibly, mostly skirted controversy (save for his ouster-then-return saga ).
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A judge recently voided Elon Musk's $55 billion compensation package at Tesla. AdvertisementA Delaware judge recently ruled that Elon Musk should not get a $55 billion compensation package for his work at Tesla despite his contributions to the company. So now that Musk's compensation has to be renegotiated, will other executives kiss their massive bonuses, stock options, and paychecks, goodbye? The more Tesla was worth, the higher Musk's compensation would get. "I don't know whether individual CEOs are panicking or taking Elon Musk as a role model, thinking, 'Well, if he doesn't like Delaware, then I have to move out of Delaware,'" Lipton said.
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Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder successfully sunk Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package from Tesla. Now they're asking a judge for about 11% of the Tesla shares, worth about $6 billion, for attorneys fees. AdvertisementLawyers for a Tesla shareholder successfully argued in a Delaware court that Elon Musk doesn't deserve a $55-billion compensation package for his work at the EV company. Instead, some of that compensation package should go to them in attorney fees, the lawyers argued to a Delaware judge. That amounts to about $5.96 billion worth of Tesla shares based on the current price of the company's stock at $202.64 per share.
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Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want $6 bln fee
  + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
The lawyers who voided Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation as excessive on Friday sought a record a $6 billion legal fee, payable in the electric car maker's stock. Musk blasted the request as "criminal," posting on his X platform that "the lawyers who did nothing but damage Tesla want $6 billion." The company would pay the lawyers who represented Richard Tornetta, a shareholder who sued Musk in 2018 over the pay package, which a Delaware judge nixed in January. The electric vehicle maker is being asked to pay the fee because it benefited from the return of Musk's pay package, which the legal team said will result in the return to the carmaker of 266 million shares. Judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the case and will decide on the fee, called Musk's pay "unfathomable" in her ruling.
Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon, Musk, Richard Tornetta, nixed, Kathaleen McCormick Organizations: Elon Musk's Locations: Krakow, Poland, Delaware
The lawyers had earlier convinced the Delaware chancery court to revoke Musk's $56 billion pay package from 2018, with the judge ruling that Tesla's board of directors failed to prove it was fair to shareholders. The lawyers represent former heavy metal drummer Richard Tornetta, who filed the suit on behalf of his fellow Tesla investors. The lawyers are asking for just over 11% of the Tesla shares that would have gone to Musk, or slightly more than 29.4 million shares. Taking their pay in Tesla shares demonstrates they are prepared to "eat our cooking," the lawyers wrote. Musk's pay package was the largest ever disclosed in corporate America, according to Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick's 200-page ruling.
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The world's richest person has faced problems at Tesla, SpaceX and X, ranging from a tanking Tesla valuation to an X advertiser exodus. Tesla's stock slide has erased about $188 billion from its valuation this year, according to Business Insider's calculations. The stock closed at just under $192, leaving it worth just over $600 billion at the close of trading Friday. Before you start feeling too sorry for Musk, though, he's still worth $208 billion. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDelaware pay rulingTo add insult to injury, a Delaware judge also ruled against Musk's $55 billion Tesla pay package last month.
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Elon Musk has had it with Delaware — but don't expect other corporations to flee the business-friendly state, too. Musk also specifically went after the judge who ruled to void his pay package, Kathleen McCormick, calling her an "activist and politician" in an X post. "The reason Elon Musk frequently escapes account from other judges is because they don't see through his phantabulating," Lauren Pringle, editor of the Chancery Daily, which covers Delaware courts, told the outlet. Advertisement"I don't expect a mass migration of firms from Delaware," Michal Barzuza, a professor at the University of Virginia who researches corporate law and governance, told the Post. So, despite Musk's latest crusade against the state, it seems unlikely many other Delaware-based corporations will jump ship anytime soon.
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Not every CEO in charge of a publicly traded stock market giant gets to act like Elon Musk . But her tenure as chair came in for criticism last month after a Delaware judge voided Musk's $55.8 billion pay package approved by the Tesla board in March 2018. At trial, Denholm was not sure whether the Disclosure Committee was fulfilling its obligations under the SEC Settlement," McCormick's opinion noted. AdvertisementMcCormick also drew attention to how Musk changed his title to "Technoking of Tesla" in March 2021. Musk is also seeking to reincorporate Tesla in Texas from Delaware following the court decision in the state on his pay package.
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SpaceX has filed to relocate its business incorporation from Delaware to Texas. The move follows a Delaware judge's decision to void CEO Elon Musk a $55 billion Tesla pay package. AdvertisementSpaceX, which was incorporated in the famously corporation-friendly Delaware, filed to relocate its business incorporation with the Texas Secretary of State, Bloomberg reported. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly railed against the Diamond State and a judge's decision to void his $55 billion Tesla pay package. "The public vote is unequivocally in favor of Texas," Musk wrote on February 1.
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The private rocket company SpaceX has switched where it is incorporated to Texas from Delaware, its founder, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday, weeks after a Delaware judge voided his pay package at Tesla, another company he owns. A spokeswoman for Ms. Nelson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mr. Musk, a billionaire who lives in Texas and also runs the carmaker Tesla, has had issues with Delaware. Last month, a judge there voided the pay package that had helped to make him the world’s wealthiest person. The judge ultimately ruled that Mr. Musk had effectively overseen his own compensation plan, valued at more than $50 billion last month, with the help of compliant board members.
Persons: Elon Musk, Jane Nelson, Musk Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla Locations: Texas, Delaware
Elon Musk, the chief executive and public face of Tesla, is constantly making news and broadcasting his opinions on his social media site, X. To some analysts and investors, Ms. Denholm is the “adult in the room” who has helped Mr. Musk turn Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker. But to her critics, she has failed at her most important job: serving as a check on Mr. Musk. Late last month, a Delaware judge sharply criticized Ms. Denholm’s leadership while striking down Mr. Musk’s 2018 compensation package, which is worth more than $50 billion. Ms. Denholm took a “lackadaisical approach to her oversight obligations” at Tesla, said Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Persons: Elon Musk, , Robyn M, Denholm, Musk, Musk’s, Kathaleen St, J . McCormick Locations: Australia, Delaware
It remains to be seen what Tesla will do about Elon Musk's pay just a few weeks after a Delaware judge voided his $56 billion compensation package, the largest CEO pay package in public corporate history. But Musk has already made some big decisions, including a declaration of a war on the state of Delaware. "Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware" Musk posted on X shortly after the decision. "Put simply, neither the Compensation Committee nor the Board acted in the best interests of the Company when negotiating Musk's compensation plan. But even as those figures have risen, Musk's compensation would be an "outlier among outliers," said Matteo Tonello, managing director at The Conference Board.
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Read previewJeff Bezos this week unloaded 12 million shares of Amazon stock, netting him about $2 billion in a strategic move that may position him to once again claim the title of "world's richest man." Before this week's sale of Amazon stock, Bezos' net worth was only $5 billion behind Musk's $200 billion fortune, putting the title of #1 billionaire well within reach. This week's stock sale is not Bezos' first time offloading a large portion of his Amazon holdings, though it is the only major sale he's made since 2021. That year, Bezos sold $2.5 billion worth of shares as he prepared to step down as CEO. In 2019, Bezos offloaded roughly $2.8 billion worth of the company's stock.
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Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down Musk's $55.8 billion pay package as CEO of Tesla. Neuralink, which has its physical headquarters in Fremont, California, became a Nevada company on Thursday, according to state records. Delaware records also list the company's legal home as Nevada. “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware,” he wrote in one post after the court ruling. Musk, a co-founder of the privately held Neuralink, is listed as company president in Nevada documents.
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Tesla's corporate governance problems could undermine the automaker's competitive advantage by hindering its ability to invest long term and pursue breakout technologies, according to Daiwa Capital Markets. Analyst Jairam Nathan downgraded Tesla to neutral from outperform and slashed his price target for the automaker by about 20% to $195, which still implies nearly 8% upside from Monday's close of $181.06. The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that Musk had used illegal drugs with some board members. "For instance, any Board reshuffle could slow decision-making and shorten investment time horizons," Nathan wrote. Daiwa is maintaining its earnings forecast of $3.10 per share for 2024 and $4.25 per share for 2025 based on 13% to 16% delivery volume growth.
Persons: Jairam Nathan, Tesla, Nathan, Elon Musk's Organizations: Daiwa, Markets, Street Locations: Delaware
In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTulane Law professor Ann Lipton on Elon Musk's pay package, legal impact of Tesla's move to TexasAnn Lipton, Tulane Law professor, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the fallout from a Delaware judge's ruling invalidating Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, the legal implications of Tesla's move from Delaware to Texas, and more.
Persons: Ann Lipton, Texas Ann Lipton Organizations: Tulane, Elon, Elon Musk's Locations: Texas, Delaware
Richard Tornetta sued Tesla in 2018 over Elon Musk's $55 billion compensation plan. The Tesla shareholder is a former heavy metal drummer for the thrash-metal band Dawn of Correction. A Judge sided with Tornetta and struck down the pay package, calling it unfair to shareholders. AdvertisementThe Tesla shareholder who won a dramatic legal victory that denied Elon Musk his $55 billion compensation package used to be a heavy metal drummer. The EV maker will need to develop a new compensation plan for Musk, although it can appeal.
Persons: Richard Tornetta, Tesla, , Elon Musk, of, Musk, Tornetta, Kimbal Organizations: Elon Musk's, Service, YouTube, Reuters, Business Locations: Delaware, Texas
Tesla's former general counsel cried during his deposition on Elon Musk's compensation package. Delaware judge Kathelaeen McCormick said Todd Maron's "admiration for Musk moved him to tears." That's what former Tesla general counsel Todd Maron did, according to court documents out of Delaware. "The working group included management members who were beholden to Musk, such as General Counsel Todd Maron who was Musk's former divorce attorney and whose admiration for Musk moved him to tears during his deposition," McCormick wrote in her decision. McCormick this week voided Musk's $55 billion compensation package at Tesla.
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Musk says he's going to call a shareholder vote to transfer Tesla's incorporation to Texas. AdvertisementTesla CEO Elon Musk says he's going ahead with plans to shift the company's state of incorporation to Texas. Musk wrote on X on Thursday morning, referencing the poll he conducted on Tuesday. "Tesla will move immediately to hold a shareholder vote to transfer state of incorporation to Texas," Musk wrote on X.AdvertisementThe public vote is unequivocally in favor of Texas! Tesla will move immediately to hold a shareholder vote to transfer state of incorporation to Texas.
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