{"id":173123,"date":"2026-01-12T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/paramount-sues-wbd-over-netflix-deal-wbd-says-paramounts-price-is-still-inadequate\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:49:31","slug":"paramount-sues-wbd-over-netflix-deal-wbd-says-paramounts-price-is-still-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/paramount-sues-wbd-over-netflix-deal-wbd-says-paramounts-price-is-still-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount\u2019s price is still inadequate."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Paramount Skydance escalated its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today by filing a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court against WBD, declaring its intention to fight Netflix\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>In December, WBD agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/netflixs-72b-wb-acquisition-confounds-the-future-of-movie-theaters-streaming\/\">sell its streaming and movie businesses to Netflix<\/a> for $82.7 billion. The deal would see WBD\u2019s Global Networks division, comprised of WBD&#8217;s legacy cable networks, spun out into a separate company called Discovery Global. But in December, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/paramount-says-it-could-get-antitrust-approval-for-wbd-before-netflix\/\">Paramount submitted a hostile takeover bid<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.paramount.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/paramount-amends-its-superior-30-share-all-cash-offer-warner\">amended its bid<\/a> for WBD. Subsequently, the company has aggressively tried to convince WBD\u2019s shareholders that its $108.4 billion offer for all of WBD is superior to the Netflix deal.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Paramount CEO David Ellison wrote a letter to WBD shareholders informing them of Paramount\u2019s lawsuit. The lawsuit requests the court to force WBD to disclose \u201chow it valued the Global Networks stub equity, how it valued the overall Netflix transaction, how the purchase price reduction for debt works in the Netflix transaction, or even what the basis is for its \u2018risk adjustment\u2019\u201d of Paramount\u2019s $30 per share all-cash offer. Netflix\u2019s offer equates to $27.72 per share, including $23.25 in cash and shares of Netflix common stock. Paramount hopes the information will encourage more WBD shareholders to tender their shares under Paramount&#8217;s offer by the January 21 deadline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/paramount-sues-wbd-over-netflix-deal-wbd-says-paramounts-price-is-still-inadequate\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/paramount-sues-wbd-over-netflix-deal-wbd-says-paramounts-price-is-still-inadequate\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance escalated its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today by filing a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court against WBD, declaring its intention to fight Netflix\u2019s acquisition. In December, WBD agreed to sell its streaming and movie businesses to Netflix for $82.7 billion. The deal would see WBD\u2019s Global Networks division, comprised of WBD&#8217;s legacy cable networks, spun out into a separate company called Discovery Global. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. 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