[jiggyjace]

Have you read the termination letter? The letter was sent by Elon's lawyers working with Twitter's lawyers according to the merger terms they had all agreed to. Why shouldn't they have expected a "good faith resolution"? A termination can still be made in M&A under good faith.

[paxys]

Where did you get the "working with Twitter's lawyers" part? This letter is sent to Twitter's lawyers informing them that Musk is terminating the agreement.

[betwixthewires]

They helped craft the agreement, according to Musk, twitter is violating the agreement which is grounds for termination as per the agreement.

I'm not going to pretend to know who's right or how this will play out legally, but Twitter's lawyers did participate in the creation of the agreement and therefore the current state of affairs.

[ImPostingOnHN]

I think you're getting downvoted because it's apparent that musk's naked assertions are untrustworthy, given his track record of being untrustworthy and making untrustworthy statements, so it isn't even worth considering the possibility the claims are true unless he actually brings some evidence to the table

[betwixthewires]

I don't care about votes. This isn't reddit. I just have discussions on this site and that's all I care about.

But on the topic, I think I'm getting down voted as an emotional reaction. I clearly said I don't want to pretend to know if he's legally right or not, a position which if most of us are being honest we should all be taking. But people aren't taking that position and they're reacting emotionally to words they don't want to hear. All I've said in the above comment was that Twitters lawyers did indeed contribute to the current state of affairs when they participated in the creation of the agreement in question. This is true by definition.

[jmull]

Maybe there are some downvotes because this branch of the discussion was about whether Musk and Twitter’s lawyers worked together on the termination letter and you seem to have shifted to whether they worked together on the agreement?

[betwixthewires]

Maybe.

[ImPostingOnHN]

sorry, I didn't mean to refocus the discussion to voting itself, the focus should be on the fact that elon is extremely untrustworthy and thus his bare assertions are worthless and not worth considering absent any evidence

I mean, yeah, twitter's lawyers were definitely involved in drafting up the contract between twitter and elon, but that doesn't really have any bearing on elon regretting signing that contract which mandates his closing the deal -- sucks to be him

[ImPostingOnHN]

I should also add, it's a common rhetological fallacy to advocate for withholding judgement when the evidence weighs against you