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Twitter Caves Under Shareholder Pressure, Begins Deal Negotiations With Elon Musk

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(TJVNEWS) Twitter has begun deal negotiations with billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday in response to his acquisition offer of $43 billion gaining support from the company’s shareholders, according to reports.

Though the talks don’t necessarily mean Twitter will accept Musk’s $54.20 per share bid, it does signify that the social media company is receptive to selling to Musk provided an attractive price is met.

From Reuters:

Twitter wants to know more about any active investigations by regulators into Musk, including by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that would present a risk to the deal being completed, one of the sources said. Securities lawyers say that Musk, who settled charges that he misled investors by suggesting four years ago he had secured funding to take Tesla private, may have breached SEC disclosure rules as he amassed a stake in Twitter earlier this year.
Twitter is also looking into whether regulators in any of the major markets it operates would object to Musk owning the company, the source added. Were Twitter to establish that a sale to Musk would be risky, it could ask for a sizeable break-up fee, according to the sources.
The social media company adopted a poison pill after Musk made his offer to prevent him from raising his more than 9% stake in the company above 15% without negotiating a deal with its board. In response, Musk has threatened to launch a tender offer that he could use to register Twitter shareholder support for his bid.

Musk upped the ante last week when he floated rallying shareholders behind him to make a tender offer, which would undermine Twitter’s poison pill strategy by making it appear as if Twitter is working against its investors.

The final price would be mainly determined by the shareholders, many of whom are long-term investors who want a higher price, and the rest short-term investors who are happy to take Musks’s current bid.

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