>Where I think the key point is is either side willing to go to court to expose the dirty laundry. This was all covered in the other half of the column: "As o

>Where I think the key point is is either side willing to go to court to expose the dirty laundry. This was all covered in the other half of the column: "As one merger arbitrageur put it to me, “If you’re reading the contract, you’ve lost. Lots of people reading the contract this morning.” Sadly I am one of them, and I do feel like I’ve lost." ... "Elon Musk has made it very clear that the rule of law simply does not apply to him, and this has worked well for him. If he wants to ignore the merger agreement that he signed, he will. If you take him to court, he will put up a brutal fight and make things as unpleasant as possible for you. This puts his counterparties, like Twitter, in a tough position. They have a contract. But so what?"