Netflix-WB Deal Will Be Approved & Trump Will Climb Aboard, Regulatory Expert Predicts: “The Deal Gets Done”
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 ...