In Brief Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) board of directors has rejected the $108 billion hostile takeover bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, calling the offer “illusory,” and saying that Paramount had misled shareholders about its financing.Saying it wants to honor its initial agreement to sell to Netflix, WBD’s board wrote in a letter to shareholders that Paramount “has consistently misled WBD shareholders that its proposed transaction has a ‘full backstop’ from the Ellison family.” “It does no ...

Paramount Skydance's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery appeared to be on shakier ground Wednesday, after the Warner Bros. ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery's board rejected Paramount Skydance's $108.4 billion hostile bid on Wednesday, saying it failed to provide adequate financing assurances. In a letter to shareholders, disclosed in a regulatory filing, the board wrote that Paramount had "consistently ​misled" Warner Bros shareholders that its $30-per-share cash offer was fully guaranteed, or "backstopped," by the Ellison family, led by billionaire ‌and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. "It does not, and never has," ...

Warner Bros Discovery's board rejected Paramount Skydance's $108.4 billion hostile bid on Wednesday, saying it failed to provide adequate financing assurances. ...

Netflix stock (NASDAQ: NFLX) surged in pre-market trading on Wednesday after Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) board officially recommended that shareholders accept Netflix's $82.7 billion acquisition of... ...

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As Paramount detailed in regulatory filings about its pursuit, the sale process conducted by WBD was itself illusory, as its repeated interest was met with no serious engagement. Paramount told investors today that it continued to believe its bid was never taken seriously. “During the entirety of the sale ‘process’ undertaken by the Warner Bros. board, representatives of Warner Bros. did not provide a single markup of a single transaction document, have a single meeting to go page-by-page through the docume ...

Core Viewpoint - Warner Bros. Discovery's board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance's tender offer, deeming it inadequate and risky, while fully supporting the proposed merger with Netflix [1][2]. Group 1: Board's Evaluation of Paramount's Offer - The board concluded that Paramount's tender offer is inadequate and imposes significant risks and costs on shareholders [2]. - The Ellison family has not provided an "equity backstop," which would guarantee coverage for any potential financing collapse related to the bid [3]. - The board argued that there is no material difference in regulatory risk between the Paramount offer and the Netflix deal [3]. Group 2: Support for Netflix Merger - Warner Bros. Discovery is urging shareholders to support the merger with Netflix as the "more certain value" path forward [5][6]. - The details of the board's decision are outlined in a Schedule 14D-9 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission [5].

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Warner Bros Discovery has urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover offer from Paramount Skydance, branding it “inadequate” amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the legacy media conglomerate.WBD agreed to sell its storied movie studios, HBO cable network and streaming service to Netflix in a $82.7bn deal earlier this month, setting the stage for a seismic shift in Hollywood’s industrial landscape.But Paramount, which had privately bid for WBD before the Netflix deal was unveiled, ...