Elon Musk and Twitter lawyer up forward of a authorized battle in Delaware

Twitter lawyered up. The corporate reportedly employed Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a agency notable sufficient to have its personal Wikipedia web page, and a founding accomplice, Martin Lipton, credited with inventing the shareholder rights plan or “poison capsule” protection that Twitter initially used to place the brakes on Musk’s tried buyout.

On Friday, Elon Musk filed a doc to aim to cancel his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. In response, Twitter chairman Bret Taylor tweeted the corporate would pursue authorized motion to shut the deal as agreed upon. Wachtell Lipton’s hiring, as reported by Bloomberg, suggests Twitter is severe about arguing its case within the Delaware Courtroom of Chancery.

Throughout an look on the Solar Valley Convention this weekend Musk declined to take questions, however he has responded on Twitter.

Twitter employed two key legal professionals for its crew. One is William Savitt, who has represented corporations like Anthem and Sotheby’s within the Delaware court docket in opposition to activist buyers. The opposite is Leo Strine, a former Chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Courtroom with 20 years of expertise as a decide within the state’s courts, ending with a stint because the Chief Justice of its state Supreme Courtroom earlier than he joined the agency in 2020.

Musk is alleged to have employed Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, which additionally has acquired the Wikipedia therapy, and could also be extra acquainted to Verge readers. It dealt with Samsung’s protection in opposition to Apple’s patent lawsuit claiming the Galaxy units had been merely a copycat of the iPhone, and has defended Musk beforehand, in his “pedo man” defamation case, in addition to the aftermath of his “funding secured” tweet about taking Tesla non-public in instances in opposition to the SEC and an ongoing shareholder lawsuit.

Replace July eleventh, 12:19AM ET: Added Elon Musk tweet.