Netflix-WB Deal Will Be Approved & Trump Will Climb Aboard, Regulatory Expert Predicts: “The Deal Gets Done”
Deadline·2025-12-09 08:47

One veteran of the Washington regulatory trenches sees no major roadblocks ahead for Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. “I think the deal gets done,” said Andrew Lipman, a regulatory policy expert and partner at Washington, D.C. law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Contrary to Paramount‘s assertions in its hostile bid for WBD, he added, “I don’t think it’s that much more complicated or time-consuming than the Paramount deal.” Lipman made the comments Monday at the UBS Global Media and Communications Confer ...