Twitter Makes First Interest Payment on Musk Buyout Debt

  • First coupon was expected to cost Twitter around $300 million
  • Twitter paid a group of seven banks led by Morgan Stanley

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Twitter Inc. made its first interest payment on the $12.5 billion in debt that Elon Musk used to take the social media giant private last year.

The company paid a group of seven banks, led by Morgan Stanley, which became stuck with the debt after they were unable to sell it to outside investors.