Who is financing Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter?

October 7, 2022 - 3:29 PM
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An image of Elon Musk is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo)

Elon Musk has pledged to provide $46.5 billion in equity and debt financing for his acquisition of Twitter <TSLA.O>, which covers the $44 billion price tag and closing costs.

While Musk will provide much of the funding after selling down his stake in electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc <TSLA.O> and by leaning on equity financing from large investors, major banks have committed to provide $13 billion.

Below are details of participants in the Twitter deal and their financing commitments:

Joint loan arrangers$13 billion debt financing package
Bank of America

Barclays

BNP Paribas

Mizuho

Morgan Stanley

MUFG

Societe Generale

$6.5 billion term loan facility

$500 million revolving loan facility

$3 billion secured bridge loans

$3 billion unsecured bridge loans

Equity InvestorDescriptionEquity Commitment
A.M. Management & Consulting$25 million
AH Capital ManagementVC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz$400 million
Aliya Capital PartnersSpaceX investor$360 million
BAMCOInvestment adviser$100 million
BinanceCryptocurrency firm$500 million
BrookfieldCanadian investment firm with over $690 billion assets under management$250 million
DFJ Growth IV PartnersTesla, SolarCity, SpaceX and The Boring Company investor$100 million
Fidelity Management & Research CompanyActs as the investment advisor to Fidelity’s family of mutual funds$316 million
Honeycomb Asset ManagementPrivate investment firm led by Chief Investment Officer David Fiszel$5 million
Key Wealth Advisors$30 million
Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable TrustOracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s trust$1 billion
Litani VenturesChicago-based VC firm$25 million
Qatar HoldingInvestment house founded by Qatar Investment Authority$375 million
Sequoia Capital FundInvested in The Boring Company$800 million
Strauss Capital LLC$150 million
Tresser Blvd 402 LLC (Cartenna)$8.5 million
VyCapitalInvested in The Boring Company$700 million
Witkoff CapitalNew York-based real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff’s firm$100 million
Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin TalalTwitter investor$1.89 billion (34,948,975 shares)

—Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco and Chibuike Oguh in New York; Editing by Anirban Sen and Sam Holmes