{"id":735,"date":"2025-08-04T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:56:09","slug":"musk-gets-29-billion-in-restricted-stock-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/musk-gets-29-billion-in-restricted-stock-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSK GETS $29 BILLION IN RESTRICTED STOCK FINALLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"StoryPage-lede gtmMainScrollContent\">\n<div class=\"StoryPage-lede-content\">\n<h1 class=\"Page-headline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-74.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"768\" \/>Tesla awards CEO Musk millions in shares valued at about $29 billion<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextStoryBody RichTextBody\">\n<p>Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke his massive pay package.<\/p>\n<p>The electric vehicle maker said in a regulatory filing on Monday that Musk must first pay Tesla $23.34 per share of restricted stock that vests, which is equal to the exercise price per share of the 2018 pay package that was awarded to the company\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>In December Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tesla-elon-musk-executive-pay-compensation-shareholders-86c5811b738e3a9df2b6e4adbcd055bb\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">reaffirmed<\/a><\/span> her earlier ruling that Tesla must revoke Musk\u2019s multibillion-dollar pay package. She found that Musk engineered the landmark pay package in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-business-1f66ff6f9e9bb10ee7f1591a5dbc79ca\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">sham negotiations<\/a><\/span> with directors who were not independent.<\/p>\n<p>At the time McCormick also rejected an equally unprecedented and massive <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tesla-elon-musk-corporations-executive-pay-lawyers-20d1e0cfcfe218b7db91701e4879250d\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">fee request by plaintiff attorneys<\/a><\/span>, who argued that they were entitled to legal fees in the form of Tesla stock valued at more than $5 billion. The judge said the attorneys were entitled to a fee award of $345 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"FreeStar Advertisement\" data-module=\"\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"fs-feed-ad\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rulings came in a lawsuit filed by a Tesla stockholder who challenged Musk\u2019s 2018 compensation package.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla awards CEO Musk millions in shares valued at about $29 billion Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke his massive pay package. 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