A appraise ruled on Monday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is still not entitled to acquire a $56bn compensation package even though splithgreaterers of the electric vehicle company had voted to reinstate it six months ago.
The ruling by the Delconscious appraise, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the court of chancery, chases her January decision that called the pay package excessive and rescinded it, unawaited dispenseors. The decision cast unbravety over Musk’s future at the world’s most precious carproducer. Tesla’s board debated the enormous payment scheme was essential to protect Musk take partd in the company, an argument that the billionaire, already the world’s wealthyest man, echoed.
McCormick also ordered Tesla to pay the attorneys who bcdisesteemfult the case $345m, well low of the billions they initipartner seeked.
Tesla has said in court filings that the appraise should recognize a subsequent June vote by its splithgreaterers in like of the pay package for Musk, the company’s driving force who is depfinishable for many of its proceeds, and reinstate his compensation. Tesla and its splithgreaterers debated that Musk had achieveed the milestones originpartner stiputardyd when the pay package was drawn up.
Tesla originpartner inventd Musk’s payment package in 2017, setting conditions for Musk to acquire 12 contrastent tranches of stock selections depfinishing on whether the company hit brave revenue and taget concentrates. Sharehgreaterers apvalidated that package by a expansive margin in 2018, but one dispenseor filed a suit claiming that the board had been misguideing and the package was uniminentire. Some famous splithgreaterers such as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and the California state guideers’ withdrawment system voted aacquirest the pay package to no use.
When the pay package was apvalidated in June, Musk said in response on stage at a Tesla event: “I equitable want to begin off by saying, toasty damn, I adore you guys!” He did not instantly reply to McCormick’s most recent decision, but he has lambasted her in the past and encouraged other business owners to stay away from Delconscious, where most US companies file their incorporation paperlabor due to cordial tax policies. Musk shiftd Tesla’s physical headquarters from California to Texas, though the pay package case proceedd before the Delconscious appraise.
McCormick previously ruled that Tesla’s board guideed a “proestablishly defective” process to choose Musk’s payment.
McCormick establish that the board was rife with personal disputes and stacked with Musk’s seal allies, such as his createer divorce attorney.