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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:04PM (#31047534)
> since you intend to conceal beneficial ownership of shares

Promising voting rights doesn't change beneficial ownership. Twitter would have precedent, however, to find "conscious parallelism" and thus "a de facto control bloc" between the commenter and Musk, and thus bundle them for purposes of the poison pill's activation [1].

Still, not a crime. Civil dispute under corporate law.

[1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/comment/unpacking-wolf-packs

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by mike_d on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:36AM (#31050123)
As of January 2021 there is a whole bunch of new reporting requirements for beneficial ownership to combat money laundering and hiding assets. Structuring a stock trade to conceal the actual owner of securities (note the parent poster didn't offer to vote HIS shares) and failing to file disclosures is absolutely criminal.

The Yale Law article you cite is just about groups of investors working together, which is within their rights.

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