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      <title>Ellison offers personal guarantee to beef up Paramount’s Warner Bros bid</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee $40.4 billion in Paramount Global’s latest effort to pry Warner Bros. Discovery away from selling its prized Hollywood assets to streaming giant Netflix.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The guarantee, disclosed in a filing on Monday, seeks to allay the Warner Bros board’s doubts about Paramount’s financing and the lack of full Ellison family backing, which had pushed it toward the competing cash-and-stock offer from Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Warner Bros shares closed up 3.5%, while Paramount added over 4%.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Warner Bros said it will review and consider Paramount’s revised terms, adding that the board is not modifying its recommendation with respect to the Netflix deal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Paramount said the amended terms do not change the $30-per-share all-cash offer, even as the fight for Hollywood’s sought-after assets heats up, with control of Warner Bros’ vast library offering a decisive edge in the streaming wars.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“I doubt many Warner Bros shareholders that are on the fence or planning to vote no were holding out due to issues the revised bid addresses, such as a guarantee from Larry Ellison on the funding front,” said Seth Shafer, principal analyst at S&amp;amp;P Global.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As part of the revised terms, Ellison also agreed not to revoke the family trust or transfer its assets during the pendency of the transaction, the filing showed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Paramount said it has raised its regulatory reverse termination fee to $5.8 billion from $5 billion to match the competing transaction and extended the expiration date of its tender offer to January 21, 2026.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The bid follows Warner Bros asking its shareholders to reject the $108.4 billion offer from Paramount for the whole company, including cable TV assets, due to doubts over its financing and the lack of a full guarantee from the Ellison family.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But Warner Bros investors, including the fifth largest shareholder Harris Associates, have said they would be open to revised offers from Paramount if it presents a superior bid and addresses issues with deal terms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Under the Netflix agreement, Warner Bros would owe Netflix $2.8 billion as a breakup fee if it walks away from that deal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For either suitor, winning shareholder support is only the first hurdle, as both deals would face intense antitrust scrutiny in the USand Europe.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee $40.4 billion in Paramount Global’s latest effort to pry Warner Bros. Discovery away from selling its prized Hollywood assets to streaming giant Netflix.</strong></p>
<p>The guarantee, disclosed in a filing on Monday, seeks to allay the Warner Bros board’s doubts about Paramount’s financing and the lack of full Ellison family backing, which had pushed it toward the competing cash-and-stock offer from Netflix.</p>
<p>Warner Bros shares closed up 3.5%, while Paramount added over 4%.</p>
<p>Warner Bros said it will review and consider Paramount’s revised terms, adding that the board is not modifying its recommendation with respect to the Netflix deal.</p>
<p>Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment.</p>
<p>Paramount said the amended terms do not change the $30-per-share all-cash offer, even as the fight for Hollywood’s sought-after assets heats up, with control of Warner Bros’ vast library offering a decisive edge in the streaming wars.</p>
<p>“I doubt many Warner Bros shareholders that are on the fence or planning to vote no were holding out due to issues the revised bid addresses, such as a guarantee from Larry Ellison on the funding front,” said Seth Shafer, principal analyst at S&amp;P Global.</p>
<p>As part of the revised terms, Ellison also agreed not to revoke the family trust or transfer its assets during the pendency of the transaction, the filing showed.</p>
<p>Paramount said it has raised its regulatory reverse termination fee to $5.8 billion from $5 billion to match the competing transaction and extended the expiration date of its tender offer to January 21, 2026.</p>
<p>The bid follows Warner Bros asking its shareholders to reject the $108.4 billion offer from Paramount for the whole company, including cable TV assets, due to doubts over its financing and the lack of a full guarantee from the Ellison family.</p>
<p>But Warner Bros investors, including the fifth largest shareholder Harris Associates, have said they would be open to revised offers from Paramount if it presents a superior bid and addresses issues with deal terms.</p>
<p>Under the Netflix agreement, Warner Bros would owe Netflix $2.8 billion as a breakup fee if it walks away from that deal.</p>
<p>For either suitor, winning shareholder support is only the first hurdle, as both deals would face intense antitrust scrutiny in the USand Europe.</p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:40:35 +0500</pubDate>
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