Paramount seals debt commitments backing Warner Bros deal

Paramount Skydance has syndicated a bridge loan facility and secured permanent bank financing for its planned $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. Securing the financing materially reduces execution risk for the $111B deal and clears a major funding hurdle, with implications for the lending banks and rival media-sector capital structures.

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Paramount Skydance has syndicated a bridge loan facility and secured permanent bank financing for its planned $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. Securing the financing materially reduces execution risk for the $111B deal and clears a major funding hurdle, with implications for the lending banks and rival media-sector capital structures.