Family
Nov. 6, 2026
When AI startups soar, divorce valuation becomes an allocation fight
AI company valuation spikes complicate divorce proceedings, requiring practitioners to distinguish appreciation driven by the founder's labor from capital and market forces when applying California's Pereira and Van Camp formulas.
Hossein Berenji
Email: hfberenji@berenjilaw.com
Hossein Berenji is founder and lead attorney at Berenji Divorce and Family Law Group, focusing on complex and high-net-worth divorce matters in Los Angeles County. He holds degrees from UCLA and Loyola Law School and is an active member of several prestigious legal associations. For more details, please visit https://www.berenjifamilylaw.com/.
AI megadeals captured 87.5% of U.S. venture capital by mid-2026, and Anthropic's valuation rose 5.3 times its level eight months earlier. That pace makes valuing businesses in divorce proceedings difficult.
The pending New Jersey divorce of Laura and John Overdeck, co-founder of Two Sigma, shows the stakes: the parties' valuations of his interest in the roughly $80 billion company differ by $1.3 billion. New Jersey law governs, not California's, but the case illustrates...
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