Elon Musk Casts Shadow Over GameStop Pay Case: Delaware Brief

Musk Casts Shadow Over GameStop Pay Case

Elon Musk’s moonshot compensation may no longer be Delaware’s problem, but the issues that surfaced during the seven-year legal brawl over his record pay plan are already coming back around.

As Sabrina Willmer and I reported yesterday, a new lawsuit filed in Delaware’s Chancery Court is targeting a package worth up to $35 billion for GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, head of another Delaware company with a passionate retail investor base.

Musk’s grant—worth $56 billion when a Delaware judge voided it and twice as much when it was restored on appeal—was later eclipsed ...