A case study on AT&T and WarnerMedia

Deal making 

What we focused on? 

Case study: what is a deal? 

What comes to your mind when you first hear negotiating? 

Deal with parents' reward and punishment, we do deals all the time personal side of a deal, the higher supply, the higher demand how deal-making? What is trying to achieve?

AT&T's $85bn acquisition of Time Warner was announced early last year, but some financial details were not disclosed until Tuesday. AT&T reiterated its expectation that this transition will end in the second quarter of 2022.AT&T considered spinning off Warner Media rather than creating hype. In that case, shareholders could choose to exchange AT&T stock for Warner Media Discovery stock.

How did they merge? 

That means the combination of the two companies will create a corporate giant. That's why such a merger would be blocked by many. The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against the merger. Moreover, US President Donald Trump himself opposes the deal. When he was a presidential candidate, he was asked what he thought of the deal. He explicitly mentioned that the deal, if it goes through, would end up concentrating a lot of power in very few hands. So it's safe to say that public opinion is against the mega-deal. However, AT&T and Time Warner defended the merger by saying that a merger into one company was inevitable if they had to deal with the likes of Netflix and Google. The result was a bitter lawsuit between the Justice Department and the big companies. The final result was that the court approved the merger. The Justice Department vowed to fight on. For now, however, they can't stop the $109 billion merger between the two companies.

Conclusion

AT&T announced plans to merge with entertainment company Time Warner back in 2016. 

The $85 billion deal drew heated rhetoric from then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, who claimed the merger would "concentrate too much power in the hands of too few." The Justice Department's lawsuit in March and appeal in December marked the first time in decades that the US government had intervened in a merger. But a successful merger would mean one of the world's largest wireless and telecommunications companies merging with one of the world's largest media and entertainment companies.