Overview
- Paramount Skydance, in a Thursday SEC filing, said it sold down its bridge loan to 18 banks and reduced total debt commitments to $49 billion from $54 billion.
- The company put in place a $5 billion Term Loan A and a new $5 billion revolving credit line that would carry into the merged company, and it dropped a separate $3.5 billion facility.
- The new loans are secured by a first claim on all company assets, including Paramount Global, Skydance Media and Warner Bros. after closing.
- Paramount recently secured about $24 billion in equity from Middle Eastern sovereign funds and LionTree, including roughly $10 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
- Next steps include a Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder vote on April 23 and multiple regulatory reviews, with the combined company expected to carry nearly $80 billion in net debt that could shape spending priorities.