Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and investor. He is the founder,chairman,CEO,and CTO of SpaceX;angel investor,CEO,product architect,and former chairman of Tesla,Inc.;owner,executive chairman,and CTO of X Corp.;founder of the Boring Company and xAI;co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI;and president of the Musk Foundation. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world,with an estimated net worth of US$190 billion as of March 2024,according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index,and $195 billion according to Forbes,primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
Wachtell,Lipton,Rosen &Katz is an American law firm in New York City,considered to be the top firm in the United States for major mergers and acquisitions. While many peer law firms have grown and become international brands,Wachtell has only a single,Manhattan office. It is one of the smallest firms in the AmLaw 100,but has the highest per partner profits of any law firm and pays significantly above the "Cravath scale" market rate for associates. The firm pays its partners through a lockstep system,meaning that compensation is tied to firm seniority,rather than hours billed or business brought in. The same is true for associate bonuses. This compensation model has led to the firm being called the "last true partnership."
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati is an American multinational law firm specializing in business,securities,venture capital,and intellectual property law. It is generally one of the top-grossing law firms in the world. Headquartered in Palo Alto,the firm's clients are primarily technology companies,life science firms,emerging industries,venture capital firms,private equity establishments,and investment banks.
The Delaware Court of Chancery is a court of equity in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is one of Delaware's three constitutional courts,along with the Supreme Court and Superior Court. Since 2018,the court consists of seven judges. The court is known for being a hub for corporate governance litigation in the United States,as two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware.
Gary Gensler is an American government official and former Goldman Sachs investment banker serving as the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gensler previously led the Biden–Harris transition's Federal Reserve,Banking,and Securities Regulators agency review team. Prior to his appointment,he was professor of Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
TransPerfect is a New York City-based translation and language services company. The company serves clients in many fields,such as film,gaming,law,and healthcare. As of 2012,TransPerfect is "the largest privately owned language services provider,with offices in over 100 cities worldwide" and more than 7,500 employees.
Leo E. Strine,Jr. is an American attorney and retired judge for the state of Delaware. He served on the Delaware Court of Chancery as vice chancellor from 1998 to 2011 and chancellor from 2011 to 2014,and as the chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 2014 to 2019. Strine has worked in private practice since 2020.
The Government of Delaware encompasses the administrative structure of the US state of Delaware as established by its 1897 constitution. Analogously to the US federal government,it is composed of three branches:executive,legislative,and judicial. The Governor is head of the executive,the General Assembly is the legislature,and the Supreme Court is the highest court. The state is also organized into counties,municipalities,school districts,and special districts.
Young Conaway Stargatt &Taylor,LLP (YCST) is an American law practice based in Wilmington,Delaware. YCST is the second largest law firm in the state of Delaware,and provides legal services to a number of local and international clients. In 2014 YCST was ranked by Chambers USA legal organization as a national leader in the legal profession. From 2011 to 2015 it represented Jay Miscovich during the Miscovich Emeralds Hoax. The law firm notably served as the now-defunct Kodak's legal council during the camera company's bankruptcy proceedings and longstanding patent disputes with Apple.
Alexander Benjamin Spiro is an American attorney. He is a partner at the New York office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan.
Vijaya Gadde is an American attorney,who served as general counsel and the head of legal,policy,and trust at Twitter. Her role included handling issues such as harassment,misinformation,and harmful speech,and other decisions made by Twitter. On October 27,2022,she was fired by Elon Musk,following his acquisition of Twitter.
Tamika Renee Montgomery-Reeves is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She previously served as an Associate Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court.
TSLAQ is a loose,international collective of largely anonymous short-sellers,skeptics,and researchers who openly criticize Tesla,Inc. and its CEO Elon Musk. The group primarily organizes on Twitter,often using the $TSLAQ cashtag,and Reddit to coordinate efforts and share news,opinions,and analysis about the company and its stock. Edward Niedermeyer,in his book Ludicrous:The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors (2019),establishes the catalyst for the formation of TSLAQ in July 2018 to be the doxxing by a Twitter user of Lawrence Fossi,a Seeking Alpha writer and Tesla short seller who uses the pseudonym Montana Skeptic.
Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter,Inc. on April 14,2022,and concluded it on October 27,2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022,becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake. Twitter invited Musk to join its board of directors,an offer he initially accepted before declining. On April 14,Musk made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company,to which Twitter's board responded with a "poison pill" strategy to resist a hostile takeover before unanimously accepting Musk's buyout offer of $44 billion on April 25. Musk stated that he planned to introduce new features to the platform,make its algorithms open-source,combat spambot accounts,and promote free speech.
James Travis Laster is an American corporate lawyer and judge who has served as a Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery since 2009.
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Abigail LeGrow is an American state court judge from Delaware who is serving as a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court.
Morgan T. Zurn is an American lawyer and judge on the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Lori W. Will is an American lawyer and judge on the Delaware Court of Chancery.
