This is how Elon Musk pays for $44 billion Twitter deal

Elon Musk purchased himself a while on Thursday, after a decide accepted the billionaire’s request to halt a Twitter lawsuit to permit him to shut his proposed $44 billion buyout of the social media firm by Oct. 28.

Now comes the large query: how will he pay for it?

Musk mentioned earlier this week he would purchase Twitter for $54.20 per share, the value that was agreed in April, however included a situation that the closing of the deal be contingent on debt financing for the transaction coming by means of.

WHAT IS HIS FINANCING PLAN?

Musk has pledged to supply $46.5 billion in fairness and debt financing for the acquisition, which covers the $44 billion price ticket and shutting prices. Banks, together with Morgan Stanley and Financial institution of America Corp, dedicated to supply $13 billion of debt financing to help the deal.

Twitter on Thursday cited one of many banks as saying that Musk had not communicated to them that he intends to shut the transaction. Musk mentioned that banks had been “working cooperatively to fund the shut” on or round Oct. 28.

Musk’s $33.5 billion fairness dedication would come with his 9.6% Twitter stake, which is price $4 billion, and the $7.1 billion he secured from fairness traders, together with Oracle Corp co-founder Larry Ellison and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

That leaves Musk needing to safe a further $22.4 billion of funds to cowl the fairness financing portion of the deal.

HOW MUCH CASH DOES HE HAVE?

Musk, 51, is the world’s richest individual with a internet price of $219 billion in keeping with Forbes, however a big portion of his fortune is tied to his stakes in Tesla and Area X.

In keeping with a Reuters calculation, Musk has about $20 billion of money after promoting down a part of his Tesla stake by means of a number of transactions in November and December final 12 months and April and August this 12 months. This implies he would want to boost a further $2 billion to $3 billion, even when the opposite fairness and debt commitments are honored.

HOW CAN HE FILL THE EQUITY SHORTFALL?

He can both select to promote down extra of his stake in Tesla, or his stake in SpaceX. Different choices embody acquiring a mortgage from banks towards the shares, or getting extra traders to contribute fairness.

In August, Musk mentioned he doesn’t plan to promote down his stake in Tesla any additional, however the newest U-turn from Musk has revived considerations over whether or not he’ll promote extra of the electric-vehicle maker’s inventory to fund the deal.

Musk owned 465 million Tesla shares price $111 billion following its 3-for-1 inventory cut up, in keeping with Reuters’ calculation. He has already borrowed closely towards a giant portion of his Tesla stake.

DOES HE HAVE ENOUGH EQUITY INVESTORS?

On April 20, Oracle founder Larry Ellison mentioned he was fascinated about collaborating within the deal as one of many traders in Twitter.

Ellison is amongst a bunch of traders who’ve collectively promised to chip in $7.1 billion of financing for the deal. Up to now, no traders have publicly mentioned they might again away from their commitments.