
Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law

The proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming business by Netflix is already a blockbuster. Announced on December 5, the deal has provoked a range of strongly held views about its antitrust implications, both doctrinal and political. These considerations are complicated by Paramount’s December 8 all-cash quasi-hostile bid for WBD that includes the