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 Conference in New York, on the same stage where Netflix Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos appeared earlier in the day to make their case for their acquisition.

Paramount and Netflix have been jockeying over the past few days over the bejeweled portfolio of WBD. Netflix last Friday

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