Netflix And Paramount Battle for Warner: Part 3
When Netflix and Paramount each made their offers for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), they did not simply bid different prices and hope for the best. Each side constructed their own complex, multi-layered transaction embedded with termination rights, regulatory safeguards, and risk allocation mechanisms that, in many ways, matter as much as the headline dollars do. […]
Netflix And Paramount Battle for Warner: Part 2
As we covered in Part 1 of this series, Netflix announced a definitive agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Studios, HBO, HBO Max, DC Entertainment, and TNT Sports for $27.75 per share on 5 December, valuing the deal at approximately $72 billion. Three days later, Paramount launched a hostile, all-cash bid directly to shareholders at $30 […]
Netflix And Paramount Battle for Warner: Part 1
In this series of articles, we examine the competing proposals by Netflix and Paramount for the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, unpacking not only the financial and strategic dimensions but also the antitrust and regulatory issues that will ultimately influence the fate of these deals. Overview In September 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery found itself at […]
The Wrath of Khan: Technology, M&A and the Federal Trade Commission
Did Lina Khan, former firebrand chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), lose Silicon Valley for the Democrats in the last US presidential election? Did her hard-line approach so offend an industry accustomed to light touch regulation that it turned away from its traditional Democratic leanings and into the waiting arms of Donald Trump? The […]
Elon Musk Buys Twitter from Himself to Save It
On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that his artificial intelligence venture, xAI, had acquired his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), in an all-stock deal. The transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, factoring in $12 billion of X’s debt. It’s a move that ties Musk’s AI aspirations to X’s […]
Oracle, Cerner, and The Quest For Healthcare Data
Shantanu Mukherjee and Amruth Rao[1] On 7th June 2021, Oracle announced that it had completed the acquisition of Cerner in a USD 28.3 billion, all-cash deal. Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company by revenue, is best known for its database software products and cloud services. Cerner, the second-largest healthcare IT company in the U.S. provides […]
