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Paramount’s Monster Debt Deal Offers Few Safeguards to Investors

Bloomberg Markets Wednesday 07 October 2026, 16:30 UTC By Eleanor Duncan, Reshmi Basu and Katherine Schwartz 1 min read
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Investing Paramount’s Monster Debt Deal Offers Few Safeguards to Investors Bond investors backing David Ellison’s audacious $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are making a bold bet of their own — lending tens of billions of dollars while forgoing many of the legal safeguards typical in debt-laden buyouts. The risk stems from how Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Corp. structured its $52 billion funding package. It took the unusual step of issuing investment-grade debt, including...

Investing Paramount’s Monster Debt Deal Offers Few Safeguards to Investors Bond investors backing David Ellison’s audacious $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are making a bold bet of their own — lending tens of billions of dollars while forgoing many of the legal safeguards typical in debt-laden buyouts. The risk stems from how Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Corp. structured its $52 billion funding package. It took the unusual step of issuing investment-grade debt, including $30 billion of bonds, alongside the riskier speculative-grade paper that often backs big buyouts.
Paramount (ORG) Investors Investing Paramount’s (ORG) David Ellison’s (PERSON) Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (ORG) Ellison (PERSON) Paramount Skydance Corp. (ORG)
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