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AT&T-Time Warner Merger

Mergers and Acquisitions

AT&T completed its 85 billion dollar acquisition of Time Warner in June 2018, after winning a high-profile U.S. Department of Justice antitrust challenge to block the vertical merger of a distribution company with a content producer. The combined company, briefly renamed WarnerMedia, was spun off again just three years later in 2022 when AT&T merged it with Discovery, Inc. to form Warner Bros. Discovery, effectively reversing the deal. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Event Type
Merger 1
Event Year
2018 1
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Source Wikipedia, AT&T Inc. Acquisition of Time Warner
Finance, Practice Disciplines

The AT&T 2018 acquisition of Time Warner, financed largely through debt, is a finance-practice case study in vertical-merger financing and leverage.

Source Wikipedia, AT&T Inc. Acquisition of Time Warner
Source Wikipedia, AT&T Inc. Acquisition of Time Warner

Companies Involved

Source Wikipedia, AT&T Inc. Acquisition of Time Warner
Source Wikipedia, AT&T Inc. Acquisition of Time Warner
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1. Wikipedia, AT&T Inc. Acquisition of Time Warner
Wikipedia
  • Lead section, opening paragraph
    AT&T first announced its cash-and-stock acquisition of Time Warner on October 22, 2016.
  • Associated With: AT&T
  • Associated With: Time Warner
  • Associated With: Finance
  • Companies Involved: AT&T
  • Companies Involved: Time Warner
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