Judge rules for Elon Musk in $13 billion lawsuit over Tesla-SolarCity deal
The Hindu
Tesla shareholders had accused Musk of coercing Tesla's board into buying SolarCity, a struggling rooftop solar panel maker, to rescue his investment.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not unjustly enrich himself when he guided the electric vehicle maker in 2016 to acquire SolarCity Corp, where Musk was chairman and the largest shareholder, a Delaware judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Tesla shareholders had accused Musk of coercing Tesla's board into buying SolarCity, a struggling rooftop solar panel maker, to rescue his investment, and had sought up to $13billion in damages.
The ruling comes as Musk is tapping his vast fortune toacquire Twitter Inc, which accepted his $44 billionoffer on Monday.
"The preponderance of the evidence reveals that Tesla paid a fair price — SolarCity was, at a minimum, worth what Tesla paid for it, and the acquisition otherwise was highly beneficial to Tesla," said the opinion by Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of Delaware's Court of Chancery.
There was no immediate response from Musk or plaintiffs' lawyers to a request for comment on the ruling.
Slights said the deal process had its flaws and Musk was more involved than he should have been, but a fair price for SolarCity outweighed claims the deal unjustly enriched Musk.
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