Warner Bros. Urges Shareholders to Reject Paramount Takeover Bid, Saying Ellisons ‘Misled’ Them NYT | Top Stories Lauren Hirsch and Brooks Barnes 17 December 2025 at 20:20 The claim was made as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s dismissal of Paramount’s hostile takeover offer. © Aleksey Kondratyev for The New York TimesWarner Bros., which has its headquarters in Burbank, Calif., agreed to sell itself to Netflix in a deal worth $83 billion.
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners Pulls Out of Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery NYT | Top Stories Lauren Hirsch 17 December 2025 at 08:09 Affinity Partners, Mr. Kushner’s private equity firm, played a small financial role in Paramount’s $108 billion offer, but it had attracted political attention to the deal. © Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesJared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, founded his investment firm, Affinity Partners, shortly after the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.