Matt Levine, Columnist

Twitter Still Wants Musk’s Money

Twitter sued Elon Musk for an outcome that no one wants.

July 13, 2022 at 4:23 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Yesterday Twitter Inc. sued Elon Musk in Delaware to hold him to his agreement to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share. Twitter’s lawyers are hoping for a quick trial in September, so that the deal can close on schedule in October.1 You can read Twitter’s complaint here. Here’s the gist of it: