Paramount Bid for Warner Bros Fueled by Billions in Foreign Money and Jared Kushner’s Private Equity Firm

Sean James Dec 8th, 2025, 11:32 am

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Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery includes billions of dollars in funding from Middle East investors and Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, according to reports on Monday.

Those details emerged soon after Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison announced his company was mounting a challenge to Netflix’s WBD bid , which he called an “inferior” offer.

“A filing confirms that Paramount’s tender offer is also supported by $24 billion in debt financing from sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, as well as from Jared Kushner’s Affinity

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