#Corporate Mergers

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• 🇺🇸 Puig, Estée Lauder families weigh stake balancing options for potential merger - report — 26/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Family Business, #Luxury Goods
• 🇺🇸 David Zaslav’s WBD-Paramount deal payout highlights new 'golden parachutes' for CEOs — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  WBD CEO David Zaslav could see a payout of more than $800 million after the Paramount Skydance merger.

  Related: #Executive Compensation
• 🇺🇸 Beyond David Zaslav, WBD Execs & Financial Advisers Also Poised For 9-Figure Merger Paydays — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  While David Zaslav has stolen most of the headlines for his personal financial gains from the Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount merger, several other rich payouts are in the offing. The same SEC filing...

  Related: #Executive Compensation
• 🇺🇸 Warner Bros’ Oscar triumph a bittersweet moment as Paramount deal looms — 16/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 David Ellison Visits Warner Bros., Concedes “Turbulent” Start In Meeting With Execs (Exclusive) — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  The CEO talked to the Warners' executive leaders but left some feeling unsatisfied. "We were hoping for more," says one insider.

  Related: #Media Industry, #Leadership Transition
• 🇺🇸 Cinemark CEO Is Glad Paramount Won Warner Bros. — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Sean Gamble told an investors conference a longtime supporter of theatrical exhibition had prevailed in the merger battle.

  Related: #Theatrical Exhibition, #Hollywood Labor Relations, #Technology in Film Production
• 🇺🇸 Paramount-WBD Side Note: Merger Ends Premium TV’s Original Heated Rivalry, Brings Together HBO & Showtime; “It Warms My Heart,” Robert Greenblatt Says — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  Since the announcement Friday that Paramount has entered a merger agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a lot has been written about the deal bringing together two major streaming platforms, HB...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Streaming Wars, #Premium Television
• 🇺🇸 From Fear to Skepticism to Hope, Top Producers React to Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger at the PGA Awards — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  Some of Hollywood’s most prolific and established producers weighed in on the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger Saturday night at as they walked the red carpet at the Producers Guild Awards in L...

  Related: #Hollywood Industry, #Film Production
• 🇺🇸 What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop.

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Streaming Wars, #Regulatory Scrutiny
• 🇺🇸 Paramount wins Warner bidding war; Block surges - what’s moving markets — 27/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Market Volatility, #Technology Sector
• 🇺🇸 California Attorney General Plants Flag on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: “Not a Done Deal” — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  If the Justice Department and foreign regulators approves the deal, it'll be up to state attorneys general to challenge the merger.

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Regulatory Scrutiny
• 🇺🇸 Netflix drops bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, paving way for Paramount Skydance — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Streaming giant declines to match Paramount Skydance's $31 per share offer for Warner Bros. Discovery

  Related: #Media Industry, #Streaming Competition
• 🇺🇸 In reversal, Warner Bros. jilts Netflix for Paramount — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Warner Bros. says Paramount's sweetened bid to buy the whole company is "superior" to an $83 billion deal it struck with Netflix for just its streaming services, studios, and intellectual propert...

  Related: #Media Industry, #Political Influence, #Antitrust Regulation
• 🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery Declares New Paramount Bid a ‘Superior Proposal’; Netflix Has Four Business Days to Match — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  The board of Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday it has determined that the latest offer from Paramount Skydance is a “superior proposal” to its existing pact with Netflix. The move sets off a four-d...

  Related: #Media Industry, #Streaming Competition
• 🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery says Paramount's offer is 'superior' to Netflix deal — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Warner Bros. Discovery's board said Thursday that Paramount Skydance's latest offer to acquire the company, including its cable networks, is "superior" to its current deal with Netflix.

  Related: #Media Industry, #Regulatory Scrutiny, #Market Competition
• 🇺🇸 Nexstar CEO Salutes Donald Trump For Backing Tegna Merger, Says Mega-Deal Is On Track To Close By June — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Nexstar CEO Perry Sook told Wall Street analysts that the company’s executives “appreciate the support” of President Trump of the pending $6.2 billion merger with Tegna. Speaking on the company’s four...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Political Influence
• 🇺🇸 David Ellison, Erika Kirk and Kevin O’Leary to Attend State of the Union as Media Personalities Descend on DC — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  The Paramount mogul and new media power brokers are among the invited guests for President Trump's address to Congress Tuesday.

  Related: #Media Influence, #Politics
• 🇺🇸 AI disruption fears in focus; Trump’s new global tariffs - what’s moving markets — 24/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Market Sentiment, #Trade Policy, #Technology Disruption
• 🇺🇸 Paramount Is Expected to Raise Price of Warner Bros. Discovery Bid. Will Netflix Walk Away? — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has a Monday deadline to submit its best and final offer for Warner Bros. Discovery — and Paramount is expected to come back with an offer above its previous $30/sha...

  Related: #Media Industry, #Streaming Competition
• 🇺🇸 New Gold in spotlight as final earnings loom before merger — 22/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Mining Industry, #Financial Performance
• 🇺🇸 Honeywell may walk away from Johnson Matthey catalyst deal, Bloomberg reports — 21/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Industrial Strategy, #Regulatory Concerns
• 🇺🇸 Famed director James Cameron sends scathing letter to antitrust lawmaker over Netflix-WBD deal — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  James Cameron, award-winning director known for "Avatar" and "Titanic," calls Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD assets "disastrous" for theater business.

  Related: #Entertainment Industry, #Regulatory Issues, #Film Exhibition
• 🇺🇸 SGH, Steel Dynamics bid $10.6 billion for BlueScope Steel in ’best and final’ offer — 17/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Steel Industry, #Market Consolidation
• 🇺🇸 Paramount shares jump amid reports Warner Bros is mulling reopening sale talks — 17/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Media Consolidation, #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 Warner Bros considers reopening sale talks with Paramount- Bloomberg — 16/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Media Consolidation, #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 Activist investor Ancora publicly opposes the WBD-Netflix deal — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  An investment group is trying to sway Netflix shareholders to reject the WBD deal in favor of Paramount.

  Related: #Streaming Competition, #Shareholder Activism, #Media Industry
• 🇺🇸 Walsall Housing Group and Aspire Housing in merger talks — 06/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Real Estate, #Social Housing