This time, he did not communicate by a tweet but directly with the stock market authorities. Tesla boss Elon Musk said on Thursday that he was considering to go directly through the shareholders of Twitter to buy the social network and said to have secured nearly 46.5 billion dollars to finance this transaction. It should be a hostile takeover bid (OPA)while Twitter is likely to officially oppose it in the coming days.
In a document filed with the stock market policeman American (SEC), Elon Musk claims to have commitments from the bank Morgan Stanley to contract two loans, one of 13 billion dollars and another of 12.5 billion. The multi-billionaire has also planned to devote $21 billion of his personal fortune to carry out the operation.
“Poison Pill”
Twitter’s board opposed the acquisition by passing a so-called release clause. “poison pill” to make redemption more difficult. The leader of Tesla and SpaceX did not confirm that he would resort to a hostile takeover, specifying that it was a possibility. He proposed last week to acquire at a price of 54.20 dollars per share the blue bird network, where he has nearly 83 million subscribers.
Elon Musk had previously entered the capital of the company to the tune of just over 9%, which made him one of the largest shareholders in the group. Twitter then offered Musk to join its board of directors, but the multi-billionaire declined the offer. On Wall Street, Twitter’s action reacted little to this development on Thursday, climbing 0.39% to 46.85 dollars at the start of the session.
