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Paramount
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PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE | Paramount
Paramount, said: "WBD shareholders deserve an opportunity to consider our superior all-cash offer for their shares in the entire company. Our public offer, which is on the same terms we provided to the Warner Bros. Discovery Board of Directors in private, provides superior value, and a more certain and quicker path to completion.
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Reuters
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Warner Bros fight heats up with $108 billion hostile bid from Paramount | Reuters
5 days ago - Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), opens new tab on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab, in a last-ditch effort to outbid Netflix and create a media powerhouse that ...
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Bloomberg
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Warner Bros. Plans to Reject Paramount Bid on Funding, Terms - Bloomberg
4 hours ago - Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is planning to reject Paramount Skydance Corp.’s hostile takeover bid due to concerns about financing and other terms, people familiar with the matter said.
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BBC
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Hollywood panics as Paramount-Netflix battle for Warner Bros
3 days ago - Disaster, catastrophe and nightmare. That's how Hollywood's creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to buy the historic studio and tinsel town braces for more upheaval and job losses.
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CNBC
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Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD 'to finish what we started,' CEO Ellison tells CNBC
1 week ago - On Friday, Netflix announced a deal to acquire WBD's studio and streaming assets for a combination of cash and stock, valued at $27.75 per WBD share, or $72 billion. Paramount had been bidding for the entirety of Warner Bros.
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Axios
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Jared Kushner's firm backs out of Paramount's Warner Bros. bid
5 hours ago - The newsThe Warner Bros. board is expected to announce that it plans to reject Paramount's $30-a-share all-cash offer for the company.
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NBC News
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Jared Kushner's private equity firm drops out of Warner Bros. takeover battle
The news that Kushner's fund was dropping out of the group of funds prepared to support Ellison and Paramount Skydance came shortly after multiple reports that Warner Bros.
Published   2 hours ago
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CNBC
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Kushner's Affinity Partners exits Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
4 hours ago - Jared Kushner's firm Affinity Partners has dropped out of Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
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Fox Business
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Paramount launches hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery | Fox Business
Paramount CEO David Ellison announced on Monday the company has launched an all-cash tender offer to acquire the outstanding shares of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Published   1 week ago
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The Hill
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Warner Bros. Discovery preparing to tell shareholders: Back Netflix deal over Paramount
3 hours ago - Paramount’s bid is set to expire on Jan. 8, The Wall Street Journal noted, with the company expected to make a decision on whether to sweeten its offer to Warner Bros.
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BBC
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Netflix and Paramount battle for Warner Bros. Who is likely to win?
5 days ago - So far, Warner Bros has spurned its proposals. Then it announced a deal to sell the most valuable parts of its business - its studio and streaming divisions - to Netflix instead. Undeterred, Paramount chief executive David Ellison launched a ...
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AP News
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Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros. | AP News
Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The effort announced Monday initiates a potentially bruising battle with Netflix to buy the company behind HBO and CNN, along with the power to reshape much of the nation’s ...
Published   1 week ago
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Reuters
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Warner Bros likely to reject $108.4 billion Paramount bid, back Netflix in bidding war, sources say | Reuters
3 hours ago - Dec 16 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery's (WBD.O), opens new tab board could announce a decision as early as Wednesday on Paramount Skydance's (PSKY.O), opens new tab $108.4 billion takeover bid, with the board likely to advise shareholders ...
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Variety
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Jared Kushner Backs Out of Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery Bid
4 hours ago - Paramount said in an SEC filing last week that the three Arab wealth funds and Kushner’s Affinity “agreed to forgo any governance rights — including board representation — associated with their non-voting equity investments.” Now, Affinity is no longer part of the bid. In addition, Chinese internet company Tencent, which had previously committed $1 billion to the Paramount Skydance bid, is no longer a financing partner because of the WBD board’s concerns over foreign ownership. Warner Bros.
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Wikipedia
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Proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. - Wikipedia
4 hours ago - Paramount's offer values WBD at $108.4 billion at $30 per share. The move has widely been viewed as a hostile takeover and WBD said it would take several weeks to review it, while also evaluating its previous agreement with Netflix.
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NYTimes
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Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery - The New York Times
1 week ago - Paramount on Monday mounted a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, a brazen attempt to secure a Hollywood prize snatched away by Netflix last week. Netflix announced an $83 billion deal to buy a big part of Warner Bros.
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Forbes
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Is Netflix Buying Warner Bros.? Where The Deal Stands After Paramount’s Hostile Bid
4 days ago - The top question right now: Is Netflix still buying Warner Bros.? Paramount’s $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.