{"id":14059,"date":"2026-01-20T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:49:35","slug":"netflix-boosts-bridge-loan-for-warner-bros-deal-to-42bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14059","title":{"rendered":"Netflix boosts bridge loan for Warner Bros deal to $42bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Netflix has lined up more debt from Wall Street banks to help finance its amended, all-cash agreement to buy Warner Bros Discovery\u2019s studio and streaming business.<\/p>\n<p>The company now has $42.2 billion of bridge loans in place, according to a filing Tuesday, a type of facility that is usually replaced with permanent debt like corporate bonds.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix, which previously agreed to pay $27.75 a share in cash and stock for the Warner assets, has now agreed to pay the full amount in cash. Rival bidder Paramount Skydance Corp has launched an all-cash $30-a-share tender offer for all of Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Netflix initially lined up $59 billion of financing from a group of banks to help support its acquisition, including one of the largest-ever bridge loans. It subsequently refinanced some of that with longer-term debt, leaving about $34 billion to be syndicated before this week\u2019s increase.<\/p>\n<p>With the amended agreement, Wells Fargo &amp; Co is providing $4.1 billion of incremental bridge loans, followed by BNP Paribas SA at $2.87 billion and HSBC Holdings Plc at $1.23 billion, according to the filing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Netflix #boosts #bridge #loan #Warner #Bros #deal #42bn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has lined up more debt&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[9697,2680,9696,458,110,1739,461,457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}