Warner Bros. Discovery is reassuring president and CEO David Zaslav and other top execs that they will still be able to keep their stock options even if the company is sold.

WBD last month announced that it had received in-bound acquisition interest from “multiple parties” and has commenced a process to review such offers . David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is known to have submitted bids for WBD in its entirety, while Comcast and Netflix have been putting together bids for the company’s streaming and studio operations.

The potential bidding war for WBD emerged after Warner Bros. Discovery started a process of splitting in two. In June, the media conglomerate said it would separate into two companies: one entity called Warner Bros. (comprising streaming and studios), to be led by

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