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Anthropic expects to spend $41.5 million on legal fees for its stock-market listing, according to paperwork cited by Business Insider. The figure is a striking measure of the legal work involved in taking a large, complex AI company public.
Why it mattersBusiness Insider compares it with an average $4.9 million in legal fees for companies raising more than $1 billion across 1,239 listings from 2016 to 2025. SpaceX budgeted $25.5 million for its own IPO, according to its filing. The number is a budget, not a final bill, and the listing’s costs also include underwriting and roadshow expenses. Even an AI company hoping to make lawyers less necessary has found plenty for them to do.
Discuss: Should IPO legal costs of this scale be treated as the price of a complex listing, or as a case for closer scrutiny?
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