Apollo Global Offered $27 Billion for All of Paramount Global but the Bid Was Rebuffed
03.04.2024 - 23:45
/ variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Private-equity giant Apollo Global Management made a $27 billion offer to acquire all of Paramount Global this week, sources familiar with the bid told Variety. However, the special committee set up by the Paramount Global board of directors to consider M&A options declined to engage with the bid. Apollo submitted an all-cash bid on Sunday, March 31, to acquire Paramount Global in a deal worth more than $27 billion of total enterprise value, encompassing equity and debt, according to people familiar with the situation.
That came after Apollo had offered $11 billion to buy Paramount Pictures alone, a bid that was also rebuffed by Paramount’s committee. Shari Redstone is Paramount’s controlling shareholder and president of National Amusements Inc., its parent company. But given the potential conflict of interest, Redstone is not a member of the board’s special committee.
NAI, Paramount Global and Apollo have declined to comment on the M&A talks. Word of Apollo Global’s new bid for Paramount Global comes as Redstone entered into an exclusive negotiating period with David Ellison’s Skydance Media to sell her stake in National Amusements Inc. (and thereby pave the way for Skydance to merge with Paramount Global).
NAI holds 77% of the voting shares in Paramount Global. Redstone’s preference is for Paramount Global be sold as a whole, not in pieces. It’s not clear why the media company’s special committee would have not considered Apollo’s $27 billion bid for the entire company.
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