Tesla asks shareholders to vote again on Musk’s $56 billion payout (CNBC) Tesla will ask shareholders to reapprove CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, months after a Delaware court found it deeply flawed and voided it. The company is also seeking to reincorporate in Texas as a direct result of the court decision. Tesla said Wednesday it will ask shareholders to reinstate CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, which a Delaware judge voided earlier this year after ruling that the record-setting compensation deal was “deeply flawed.” Tesla also said it would ask shareholders to approve moving the company’s incorporation from Delaware to Texas. Musk had suggested the move after his pay package was ruled illegal. The announcement Wednesday came days after the automaker said it would cut its workforce by 10%. Tesla said the court decision created a “fundamental problem for the company.” The two proposals are likely to be fiercely controversial. Tesla has hired a proxy solicitor, Innisfree M&A, and plans to spend an undetermined amount, in the millions, to help secure the votes for the two proposals, according to the filing. Tesla has not hired Innisfree since 2018, when it first asked shareholders to vote on Musk’s pay package. Companies often only advertise the cost of proxy solicitations when major proposals or proxy fights are expected. (Innisfree was also suing Musk’s Twitter over unpaid bills.) Musk’s pay package was invalidated after a shareholder won a lawsuit against the company earlier this year. Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick found that Musk, rather than Tesla’s board, controlled the company and that the board’s compensation committee, rather than negotiating with Musk over the terms of the deal, “worked alongside him, almost as an advisory body.”
@Fxhedgers @WallStreetSilv Elon deserves the $56 billion pay package, he literally worked around the clock and lived in the Tesla factories when nobody thought he could hit the numbers in the agreement.
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@Fxhedgers @WallStreetSilv This can no longer be ignored x.com/truthscant/sta…
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@Fxhedgers @WallStreetSilv As a Tesla shareholder I will vote for whatever Musk thinks is best. He has more integrity than our court system!!!
@Fxhedgers Is this same as letting go of the 14% workforce to cut down the costs so that the company shows a better number on balance sheets.