JP Morgan sues Tesla for breach of contract related to Elon Musk's tweets, seeking to recover "over $162 million immediately due and payable." 
Here's a copy of the complaint--the basic story seems to be that JPM exercised a contractual right to reduce the strike price on some warrants it owned after Musk's fraudulent 'going-private at $420' tweet, and Tesla disputes the validity of that move. documentcloud.org/documents/2110…
Manafort prosecutor Greg Andres--who's now in private practice at Davis Polk--is JPM's lead counsel in the lawsuit.
Correx: I should maybe qualify "lead." Andres is listed first and named as "lead attorney" on PACER, but another Davis Polk partner is listed first in the complaint and actually signed it--the traditional things for the first chair to do. Andres is one of 'em, at least.
To me, the fascinating thing about this suit is the implicit breakdown in the relationship between a money center bank and a trillion dollar public company over a $162 million dispute. (Seems like a lot of money to mere mortals, I know, but the amount is trivial to the parties.)
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