The company reportedly hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a firm notable enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Martin Lipton credited with inventing the shareholder rights plan or’poison pill’ defense that Twitter used to put the brakes on Musk’s attempted buyout.
On Friday, Elon Musk filed a document to attempt to cancel his $ 44 billion takeover of Twitter. In response, Twitter chairman Bret Taylor tweeted the company would pursue legal action to close the deal as agreed upon.
During an appearance at the sun Valley conference this weekend Musk declined to take questions. But he has responded on Twitter on Twitter.
Twitter hired William Savitt, who has represented companies like anthem and Sotheby’s. Leo strine, a former chancellor of the Delaware Chancery court, ended with a stint as the chief justice of its state Supreme Court.
It handled Samsung’s defense against Apple’s patent lawsuit claiming the Galaxy devices were merely a copycat of the iPhone. It has defended Musk previously, in his’pedo guy’ defamation case, as well as the aftermath of his’funding secured’ Tweet about taking Tesla private.