US lawyers who won case against Musk seek 5.6 billion dollars of Tesla shares

Elon Musk lost a court case over his pay package (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

The lawyers who successfully argued that a massive pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk was illegal and should be voided have asked the presiding judge to award them company stock worth 5.6 billion dollars (£4.4bn) as legal fees.

The attorneys, who represented Tesla shareholders in the case decided in January, made the request of the Delaware judge in court papers filed on Friday.