Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Overseas: EU Likely to Give Go-Ahead, but Another Hurdle Looms in the U.K.

With Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros.

Discovery likely to soon get the go-ahead from the European Union, the next question will be whether the U.K.’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will follow suit.

The prospects are that the U.K. won’t block the deal, but may throw in an extra hurdle, according to […] ...