Larry Ellison Personally Guarantees Paramount Bid for Warner Brothers

Source: New York Times

Dec. 22, 2025, 9:16 a.m. ET


Paramount said on Monday that Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount’s chief executive David Ellison, is personally guaranteeing the roughly $40.4 billion in equity that the company is offering as part of its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The announcement of Mr. Ellison’s personal guarantee is meant to address concerns that the Warner Bros. Discovery’s board had expressed about Paramount’s original offer.

Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced an $83 billion deal to sell a large part of its business to Netflix. Warner Brothers said Netflix offered a better deal for its shareholders than Paramount’s $108 billion bid to acquire the full company. After the Warner Bros. Discovery board rejected Paramount’s bid, it brought the same offer to the company’s shareholders.

Last week, Warner Bros. Discovery advised shareholders to reject Paramount’s offer. One of the main concerns Warner Bros. Discovery mentioned in its recommendation was the lack of a personal guarantee from Oracle co-founder, Larry Ellison. According to the terms of that offer, a revocable trust in Mr. Ellison’s name would back the bid, and the board worried that it would have limited recourse if Paramount’s bid fell apart.

Paramount said on Monday that the deal would now include a personal guarantee from Larry Ellison, putting one of the richest men in the world on the hook if the deal fell apart. Mr. Ellison is expected to get financial contributions from other partners for the deal, including roughly $24 billion from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds as well as debt financing from a group of banks.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/larry-ellison-paramount-warner-brothers-bid.html

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They had already measured the drapes to get at CNN and make it into OAN2. WB wants CNN spun off and it can do what it wants separately. Ellison is overextended now between this, TikTok, AND the AI obsession.

And as to this -



Kushner purportedly had pulled out of this - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143583781

And as to "foreign debt financing" - what happened to "America First"????