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    Elon Musk secures $46.5 billion financing commitment for Twitter, explores tender offer

    Closing price
    Musk's offer price of $54.20 per share, revealed in a regulatory filing on Thursday, is a 38 percent premium to Twitter's April 1 closing price.

    Story outline

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk has secured a funding
    Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion
    Banks, including Morgan Stanley, have agreed to provide another $13 billion


    Tesla CEO Elon Musk has secured a funding commitment of $46.5 billion to buy Twitter Inc and is planning to start a tender offer for its shares, a filing with U.S. regulators showed on Thursday.

    Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion, which will include $21 billion of equity and $12.5 billion of margin loans, to finance the transaction.

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    Banks, including Morgan Stanley, have agreed to provide another $13 billion in debt secured against Twitter itself, according to the filing.

    Musk. Twitter's second-largest shareholder, has offered to buy the company for $43 billion that has prompted Twitter to adopt a "poison pill" to limit Musk's ability to raise his stake in the social media platform.
    The Economic Times

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