Musk has asked the banks to hand over “documents and communications” about how they informed Twitter during the negotiations, which Musk abruptly backed out of last month after offering to buy the site for $44 billion. dollars in April, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Musk’s subpoenas also seek to reveal whether Twitter was considering other buyers for the deal. They come after Twitter issued dozens of its own subpoenas against Musk last week. The Twitter subpoenas targeted Morgan Stanley and other banks that acted as Musk’s co-investors in the deal. The subpoenas from both sides will work to reveal more information ahead of a five-day trial scheduled to begin Oct. 17 in Delaware Chancery Court, in which Twitter is trying to force Musk to go through with the deal. Legal experts say Twitter’s litigation activity shows its lawyers want to know what lenders, investors and advisers were saying among themselves about Musk’s behavior after he signed the deal in late April, in an effort to prove Musk deliberately tried to torpedo its market funding. as he began to back out of the deal. “They suspect that behind the scenes he was conspiring to blow the whole thing up,” Minor Myers, a professor at UConn Law School, told Reuters. Musk said on July 8 that he was backing out of the deal because Twitter allegedly violated the deal by withholding data about fake accounts on the platform. Twitter said the fake accounts distract from the only issue that matters, which is the terms of the deal. Musk had also said he was leaving because Twitter laid off senior executives and a third of its talent acquisition team, in violation of Twitter’s obligation to “maintain substantially intact the material elements of its current business organization.” Musk cannot be ordered to close the deal if funding fails – provided he is not the cause of the funding failure, according to legal experts. Experts said Twitter would be interested in understanding lenders’ concerns about the number of fake accounts on the platform and whether it was a problem for them, as Musk suggested. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs declined to comment. Morgan Stanley did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Representatives for Musk and Twitter also did not immediately respond. Reuters contributed to this report