Professor Shubha Ghosh Writes About Antitrust Issues in the Merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery

Crandall Melvin Professor of Law Shubha Ghosh has contributed the article “Paramount-WBD Deal Would Widen Net For Antitrust Scrutiny” to Law360.

Ghosh writes, ”On Feb. 6, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would widen its inquiry into Netflix Inc.’s proposed acquisition of WBD. The Netflix-WBD deal raised concerns for antitrust enforcers. These concerns are exacerbated for the Paramount-WBD combination. There’s no doubt the DOJ will continue its scrutiny of mergers between these two dominant media companies.

What justifies the extended investigation are several uncertain issues raised by this merger. Some of the uncertainty is like what arises in any merger. But other sources of uncertainty are unique to content creation and distribution markets.”