Netflix Shifts to All-Cash Offer for Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
Netflix revises its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition terms with an all-cash offer for studios and streaming assets amid competition from Paramount and falling stock prices.
Netflix revises its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition terms with an all-cash offer for studios and streaming assets amid competition from Paramount and falling stock prices.
Warner Bros. Discovery plans to decline Paramount Skydance's revised acquisition offer despite billionaire Larry Ellison's financing guarantees, preferring Netflix's studio deal instead.
Paramount enhances its $30 per share all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Larry Ellison's personal guarantee and improved terms to counter Netflix's competing offer.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) board unanimously rejects Paramount's $77.9B all-cash offer, citing inadequate value and funding concerns, while reaffirming support for Netflix's $72B merger proposal.
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