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Elon Musk wins vote on US$56bil pay package
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6/14/2024
Elon Musk has won shareholder approval for his US$56bil pay package at Tesla, which is a record sum in US corporate history. The result of the vote was announced at the company's annual general meeting in Texas on June 13.
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Tesla, on Thursday, convinced its investors to ratify CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion U.S.
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dollar pay package.
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The electric vehicle manufacturer said the shareholders had approved the package, which
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is a record sum in U.S. corporate history.
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But analysts said the company now faces the harder part to persuade a Delaware judge to
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recognize it in legal suits filed by the company's investors.
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Well, the vote today is part of a legal strategy that Tesla has to try to recover from the
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loss in court in January, where the court found that the options that were granted to
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Elon Musk as part of a 2018 pay package were not fair to the corporation, so she voided
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the package.
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Last night, he announced on Twitter, X, that he won the vote.
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And it's a bit of an overstatement to say that he won.
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What he really should be saying is, I now have a piece of evidence that I can put before
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a judge to say that the judge should reinstate my stock option package.
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This vote is not binding on the court.
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The stock option package, as it currently stands, has been voided.
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And they'll be litigating in the Delaware courts for the next few months to see if that
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will stand as is.
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A final legal result in Musk's favor is not certain and will not be quick.
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The Delaware judge rescinded the pay package in January because she found that Musk improperly
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controlled the 2018 board process to negotiate it.
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She also ruled that Tesla failed to fully inform investors before they voted for it.
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Right now, the parties are arguing in court about how much the plaintiff's lawyers should
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be paid for their work in winning the trial in January.
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And what the company is going to say, the board is going to say, well, you know, maybe
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they won in January.
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But since we went back to the stockholders, the stockholders said it's all OK, given what
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they everything they know about the company and what happened at the board at the time.
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So really, this is all moot.
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And the court should just dismiss the case.
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Tesla announced the result of the 56 billion U.S. dollar pay package vote at its annual
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general meeting in Texas on Thursday.
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Tesla's also approved a plan to move Tesla's legal home from Delaware to Texas.
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