A Delaware court recently struck down Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package. Soon after, Musk took to his social network X and offered some advice: “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware.” But will anyone take it? The FT’s Wall Street editor Sujeet Indap explains how Delaware became the favourite place for big companies to incorporate and why that’s unlikely to change.

Clips from BBC, WFAA

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For further reading:

Can Elon Musk derail Delaware?

Texas is throwing down a legal challenge to Delaware

Delaware versus Elon Musk

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