- Lawyers representing Twitter in its legal fight with would-be white knight Elon Musk have fired back at the
dated Sunday, July 10, Twitter’s outside attorneys told Musk’s legal team that “Mr. Musk’s and the other Musk Parties’ purported te
rmination is invalid and wrongful, and it constitutes a repudiation of their obligations under the Agreement.” Twitter disclosed the communication in an SEC filing Monda
On Friday, Musk’s lawyers informed Twitter that he was terminating the acquisition, accusing the company of breaching its contract, mainly by “dramatically understating the proportion of spam and false accounts
Twitter demands that Mr. M
usk and the other Musk Parties comply with their obligations under the Agreement, including their obligations to use their respective reasonable best efforts to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by the Agreement,” the letter continued, concluding: “Twitter reserves all contractual, legal, and other rights, including its right to specifically enforce the Musk Parties’ obligations under the Agreement
Savitt’s letter was addressed to Mike Ringler of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which is representing Musk in the.”.”y..”