BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has withdrawn from Paramount Skydance Corp.‘s bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery, according to a revised filing of its takeover bid by Paramount with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The filing seen Wednesday shows the Chinese company dropped its $1 billion financing commitment for the takeover bid.
Paramount said the Chinese company’s participation in the bid had raised concern, since it would be a “non-U.S. equity financing source,” that its bid might be subject to a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS. That was even though approval by CFIUS or by the Federal Communications Commission was not a condition of the bid.
The SEC filing, dated Monday, said that fore

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