{"id":2308722,"date":"2026-03-02T17:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2308722"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:46:12","slug":"paramount-claims-early-european-regulatory-progress-for-wbd-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paramount-claims-early-european-regulatory-progress-for-wbd-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Claims Early European Regulatory Progress For Wbd Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1159016\/\">Paramount Skydance<\/a> has a good feeling about European approval for its $111B takeover of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> (Wbd).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0329985\/\">Andy Gordon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0919302\/\">Par<\/a>\u2019s Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer, told Wall Street analysts that his company had \u201calready made significant progress in securing regulatory clearances globally\u201d prior to the Wbd dramatically deal closing last week. News had previously broken that the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1161074\/\">European Commission<\/a> made the unusual move of beginning probes into both <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s offers for Wbd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no statutory impediments to close in the United States, [and] we\u2019ve initiated pre-notification discussions with the European Commission already,\u201d said Gordon. \u201cAs an example of our progress, Germany and Slovenia have already given their approval to proceed. We look forward to working with the remaining regulators across the world over the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reps for Paramount and the European Commission clarified that Gordon\u2019s comments relate to approvals from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Skydance has a good feeling about European approval for its $111B takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (Wbd). Andy Gordon, Par\u2019s Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer, told Wall Street analysts that his company had \u201calready made significant progress in securing regulatory clearances globally\u201d prior to the Wbd dramatically deal closing last week. 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