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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-017874"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PSKY"
cik: "0002041610"
company_name: "Paramount Skydance Corp"
filed_at: "2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T01:34:13.289671+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Paramount clears US HSR waiting period for all-cash bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery

## Summary
- 10-day HSR waiting period expired Feb 19; no US statutory impediment to closing.
- German foreign investment clearance obtained on Jan 27, 2026.
- Transaction still requires definitive merger agreement, WBD shareholder approval and other regulatory clearances.
- Paramount continues global antitrust engagement; offer is all-cash for all WBD shares.
- Soliciting proxies against WBD's proposed merger with Netflix ahead of special meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-017874
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PSKY
- cik: 0002041610
- company_name: Paramount Skydance Corp
- filed_at: 2026-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2041610/000110465926017874/0001104659-26-017874-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2041610/000110465926017874/tm2533570d64_8k.htm

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