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How Often Do Hostile Takeovers Actually Work? Paramount Fight for Warner Bros. May Face Uphill Fight

By Gmaddaus Dec 11, 2025 | 4:13 PM

Paramount Skydance has announced plans to lay siege to Warner Bros. Discovery in a high boardroom drama that feels like a throwback to the “Barbarians at the Gate” era of the 1980s. But what share of hostile takeovers actually succeed? About 24%. That’s according to two law professors who studied a database of more than […]