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Twitter has sent dozens of subpoenas in recent days to the banks and investors that were backing Elon Musk in his bid to acquire the company, ...

Twitter also asked Valor for any information pertaining to Bob Swan, a former chief executive of Intel who played a key role in putting the deal together. A spokesman for Mr. Palihapitiya declined to comment. Twitter’s legal outreach over the past week also sought more information about conversations with a number of the Silicon Valley heavyweights Mr. Musk is known to be close to. Mr. Musk filed a response to Twitter’s lawsuit on Friday, though it is temporarily sealed to the public while he and Twitter negotiate which parts to redact. Both Mr. Palihapitiya and Mr. Sacks were at a private conference in which Mr. Musk expressed doubt about Twitter’s disclosures concerning its number of fake accounts. Twitter also asked for more information about any analysis that banks have done at Mr. Musk’s instruction about the number of fake users on its platform. Twitter’s ability to sue Mr. Musk to force him to close the deal, under its “specific performance clause,” is voided if his debt financing falls apart. Twitter is also requesting information about Mr. Musk’s decision to scrap his loan against his Tesla shares to help finance the deal. But Twitter claims in a lawsuit against Mr. Musk in Delaware Chancery Court that he appeared to have abandoned efforts to complete his financing, contravening the agreement. Representatives for Morgan Stanley and Barclays declined to comment. What Mr. Musk’s bankers demanded — and why — could be crucial for the deal. Mr. Musk had originally planned to take out a roughly $12 billion loan against his Tesla stock.