Tesla shares may be crashing, but Elon Musk’s $55.75 billion pay could still be on the table; here’s how he could pull it off
Judge Strikes Down Elon Musk’s Compensation Deal
While the 2018 compensation plan led to substantial growth for Tesla, but the lower Court of Chancery deemed that the deal was not in the best interest of shareholders, according to The Express.
Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick had rejected the stock options compensation in 2024. McCormick even called it «unfathomable» and unfair to Tesla's shareholders, as per the report.
Shareholders Stand By Musk’s Compensation Package
Tesla shareholders had voted twice to support Musk's pay plan. However, according to McCormick, the directors who approved the package were too close to Musk, and also claimed that Tesla did not provide essential information to investors before they voted in favour of it, The Express reported.
Even after McCormick's decision, Tesla shareholders reaffirmed their support for the pay package in June last year. The judge, however, decided to hold her ground, The Express reported.
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Musk’s Appeal
Musk and his fellow defendants said that McCormick imposed an overly rigorous legal standard in a recent appeal, The Express reported. They claimed that she employed a standard called «entire fairness,» as per the report.
Musk's lawyers countered that McCormick incorrectly presumed he had excessive power over the salary negotiations, given that he controlled 21.9% of shares in Tesla at the time, according to The Express.
According to them, she had wrongly classified regular business relationships among directors as conflicts of interest and also unjustly criticized Tesla's pre-vote disclosures in 2018, as per The Express.
Potential Value of Musk’s Compensation Plan
The compensation deal for which Musk battled would have allowed him to purchase up to
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