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They wouldn't. Here's how it works:

1) The court would issue a judgement for Twitter, against Musk, for $44b.

2) Musk would either voluntarily pay it by selling his own assets, or he would refuse. If he refuses, then:

3) Twitter would go about seizing and selling Musk's assets, until they have raised funds to cover the $44b judgement.

Twitter could levy whatever brokerage or account Musk uses to hold his shares. Somewhere there is an account which records the shares. Twitter would serve the entity managing the account with a levy, and order the shares be liquidated.




Thanks. Further questions:

(1) Would it be legal for him to own the brokerage?

(2) What if he moves all of his stock in offshore accounts?


1) Sure, but this wouldn't give him any protection. On the contrary, there would be a ton of extra liability and exposure if he were to refuse to process a levy.

Shares don't need to be held in a brokerage. There's always a process to identify and seize the property in question.

2) There's no such thing. TSLA is a US public company, traded on US exchanges. It's simply not possible for shares of the company to exist outside of US jurisdiction.


You can obtain paper copies of your stocks. Then they could be on Mars if you'd like.


Just having a share certificate doesn’t make it s bearer form. The corporation would have to set up this ahead of time. I don’t know the status of Tesla shares that he owns but it would be very weird if they aren’t registered securities. It would also raise a ton of questions if they started issuing bearer shares after a court injunction.


Stock certificates can be voided and reissued.

Tesla being a Delaware corporation, it would be within the power of the chancery court to order that very thing.




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