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Crypto lender Celsius unlikely to get further investor funds for bail out

Celsius has hired restructuring attorneys from law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to help solve its growing financial problems

Investors in Celsius Network are unlikely to provide more financing to bail out the struggling cryptocurrency lender, said people with knowledge of the situation.

A big Canadian pension fund, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and WestCap, a growth-equity firm founded by technology investor Laurence Tosi, a former chief financial officer of Airbnb, aren’t expected to put in more money to help the crypto lender, these people said. WestCap and Caisse de dépôt last year led a Series B funding round that raised $750m for Celsius and valued the crypto startup at more than $3bn.

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