Paramount may leave California over antitrust enforcement, lawyer says

Paramount’s chief legal officer is telegraphing a willingness by the company’s chief executive to leave California as the media company faces growing antitrust scrutiny from the state government there. “His intent is to be committed to California,” Makan Delrahim, Paramount’s top legal official, said at Politico’s The

Xavier Becerra, the Democratic nominee to become the next governor of California, recommended that state attorneys general and Paramount reach a settlement and avoid an antitrust trial over the proposed Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Weighing in for the first time on the lawsuit, Becerra said at a Politico conference o

California’s attorney general accused billionaire David Ellison of “blackmail”

David Ellison threatens to move Paramount out of California if AG Rob Bonta doesn't negotiate to settle his antitrust lawsuit against the Warner Bros. merger.

David Ellison is eager to reach a swift resolution in the antitrust case filed by 12 states seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. And he’s prepared start moving Paramount out of California as soon as October unless the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settlement talks, Variety has