SpaceX Deal Lines Up $3 Billion in Tax Savings for EchoStar CEO
EchoStar’s shares have continued to rise in value as investors treat the stock as a proxy for SpaceX ahead of the company’s planned IPO.
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A splashy deal with SpaceX has helped send shares of telecommunications company EchoStar Corp. soaring more than 375% since early August, boosting the net worth of co-founder Charlie Ergen to $20.1 billion.
But the surge is also having a subtler, second-order effect on the former professional poker player’s fortune: Ergen stands to gain through his use of a niche estate-planning tool that may allow him to pass along more than $7.5 billion in stock to his heirs tax-free.
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