The biggest hurdle to a SpaceX merger with Tesla isn’t Elon Musk. It’s Tesla’s shareholders
Source: Fortune ·
Experts weigh in on what could make or break a megamerger.
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Morgan Chittum here. What do Elon Musk, a $3.5 trillion company and cat herding have in common? Corporate governance experts and portfolio managers tell me they’re a part of what’s next for a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger, which Musk himself backed during the company’s earnings call late Tuesday, saying the deal has “a lot of merit.” SpaceX delivered a blowout quarter and its first profit as a public company earlier this week. But Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, gave Wall Street something else to digest: Independent directors at the companies have formed special committees to explore merging the two. The deal, at Wednesday’s market value, would create a roughly $3.5 trillion behemoth and mark the largest corporate tie-up in history. Getting there, however, is not Musk’s decision alone. His massive stake in SpaceX and Tesla makes him, in his own words, a “conflicted party,” preventing him from being on either committee that are evaluating the deal. “It’s an odd kabuki dance…
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