Brian JM Quinn
@bjmquinn.bsky.social
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Professor @ Boston College Law School (Corporations, M&A, VC, and some corporate history)
FYI, if youâre contracting with the Federal Govt, đ𤥠will set hard caps on executive comp, limits on dividends and stock buybacks. Welcome to the neo-statist economy of the 21st century.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Prioritizing the Warfighter in Defense Contracting
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/prioritizing-the-warfighter-in-defense-contracting/
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Ok. Almost time to head back to the reality of the end of the American era
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In Sydney, Australia. Just took a rideshare in a BYD Seal. Detroit and Tesla are toast.
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Still away.
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Still far away. In the Coromandel.
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Cooks Beach. Far away.
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When PE and VC funds rely on continuation funds to avoid market based valuations of their exits, we are in trouble
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
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Investors Warn of âRot in Private Equityâ as Funds Strike Circular Deals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/private-equity-continuation-funds.html?smid=url-share
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đ°đ daddy taking away the financial risk
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m...
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Paramountâs new, hostile offer to Warner Bros. Discovery: Larry Ellison will personally guarantee $40 billion | CNN Business
Paramount has upped the ante in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, announcing Monday that Larry Ellison will personally guarantee the tens of billions of dollars he is putting up to ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/media/paramount-warner-bros-ellisons-revised-deal
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Not adding this Tornetta opinion to any casebooks or syllabi
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Ellison takes control of another corner of the US information space.
#TrumpTok
www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/t...
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TikTok has signed the deal to spin off its US entity with American investor group | CNN Business
TikTok has signed the deal backed by President Donald Trump to spin off its US assets to create a new entity with a group of mostly American investors, CEO Shou Chew told employees in a memo Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/tech/tiktok-signs-us-sale-deal
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Trump Media acquiring a nuclear fusion company is like a bad joke. Worse, the DJT spac has turned itself into a spac for TAE.
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036125045967/ef20061515_425.htm#Exhibit99.2
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24 days ago
The new âPartnershipâ between Korea Zinc and the âWar Departmentâ to build a state of the art new smelter at Clarksville, Tennessee is a surprise. Smelters are complex, large, and expensive- $7B+ and typically are sited near deepwater ports or mining districts. Clarksville is neither (cont)
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Sign of the shifting winds that pushed Kushner to drop out?
variety.com/2025/biz/new...
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Trump Blasts the Ellisons Amid Their Warner Bros. Bid: âIf They Are Friends, Iâd Hate to See My Enemies!â
Trump lashed out again at Paramount chief David Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison -- complaining about his treatment by CBS News' '60 Minutes.'
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-blasts-ellisons-warner-bros-discovery-hostile-bid-1236610188/
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Financing risk is real.
screenrant.com/warner-bros-...
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Warner Bros. Will Reject Paramount Bid For Netflix Deal As WBD Raises Concerns Over Financing
Warner Bros. makes their move.
https://screenrant.com/warner-bros-paramount-hostile-bid-reject-netflix/
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The new state capitalism - US to take 40% (40%!!!) of Tennessee-based mineral smelter. WTAF.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/p...
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Once we are on the other side of whatever this is, itâs worth reconsidering whether the SEC should continue to permit publicly traded corporations with dual class voting structures.
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Matt Peterson
27 days ago
The Times looks at how Trump business interests overlap with SEC crypto cases in the second term. NYT finds that the SEC inherited 23 crypto cases, of which 14 were dropped, frozen, settled, or conceded. All of those had Trump ties. None of the remaining nine cases do
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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I guess in some segments of the employment market employees are still in the drivers seat. I wonder how quickly this practice might spread.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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Exclusive | OpenAI Ends âVesting Cliffâ for New Employees in Compensation-Policy Change
The ChatGPT maker and its competitor xAI have relaxed restrictions meant to keep new hires from leaving in the midst of a fierce talent war
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ends-vesting-cliff-for-new-employees-in-compensation-policy-change-d4c4c2cd?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdfYfwF9mBr27BB1aRU4G-l_T9qy5NlSiLOv3xGh8t74tKwE7NtJh1f&gaa_ts=693ecdc5&gaa_sig=lBolSllq1hJeXk5SneWPY2klXFBkkzdRZj5mPikgbyFeMqglcJqK4x8v9VBoVyOFr2QJ9jhVBQErqMkLj2mhZw%3D%3D
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Whatever way this contest for WBD ends, CNN is toast CNN has endured turmoil for years. Now đ𤥠wants role in its fate
www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...
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CNN has endured turmoil for years. Now Trump wants role in its fate
In the corporate battle over parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's fate remains up for grabs. President Trump wants a say in what happens next.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5640900/cnn-trump-warner-bros-netflix-paramount
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So if SpaceX goes public, itâll have dual class shares. Guess whoâs going to get the high vote shares?
www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-w...
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How a SpaceX IPO could deliver Google one of the most lucrative startup wins ever
A SpaceX IPO could hand Google billions. Its early bet on the rocket company may turn out to be one of the most lucrative startup investments ever.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-would-earn-google-111-billion-as-an-early-investor-2025-12
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ââŚmaybe theyâll look awayâŚâ
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Wait a minute. If there is going to be a âDExitâ I donât think itâs fair that DE starts stealing all our Massachusetts cases. Where would MA corporate be without Demoulas and the pile of Market Basket cases?!
www.boston25news.com/news/local/m...
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Market Basket locked in legal dispute as ex-CEO Arthur Demoulas battles to get job back
The board of directors at Market Basket says it is locked in a dispute with former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/market-basket-locked-legal-dispute-ex-ceo-arthur-demoulas-battles-get-job-back/BZI7JGPD6JGRZBREPEPWLAUI6M/
29 days ago
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So China still hasnât agreed to đ𤥠âs TikTok deal yet?
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đđ¤Ąđ demands fealty if you want your deal approved.
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Clownish autocrat puts thumb on merger scale
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about 1 month ago
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Just emerging from my grading cave to catch up. Of course
@annmlipton.bsky.social
is right - as she usually is! Itâs not a âhostile tender offerâ! Paramountâs offer is for a 251(h) merger. Thatâs like the opposite of going over the board and straight to the stockholders
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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EX-99.(a)(1)(A)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1437107/000119312525310708/d92876dex99a1a.htm
about 1 month ago
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Financial Times
about 1 month ago
âPolitically toxicâ: how CNN became a pawn in blockbuster takeover battle
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âPolitically toxicâ: how CNN became a pawn in blockbuster takeover battle
Netflix-Paramount bidding war leaves future television network detested by Donald Trump up for grabs
https://on.ft.com/3MowJA1
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The Bulwark
about 1 month ago
WATCH: JVL is joined by Catherine Rampell and Sonny Bunch to give their takes on the wild Warner Brothers takeover drama and the surprising role Jared Kushner is playing in Hollywoodâs biggest bidding war.
lnk.thebulwark.com/4aF2Bdz?utm_...
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Tony Tassell
about 1 month ago
Read of the day: The inside track on Paramountâs hostile bid for Warner Bros - from
@danielthomasldn.bsky.social
@annanicolaou.bsky.social
and James Fontanella-Khan
www.ft.com/content/e5da...
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Kushner, Gulf money and desperate texts: inside Paramountâs hostile bid for Warner Bros
Ellisonâs approach was rebuffed over concerns about financial backing from China and Middle East sovereign funds
https://www.ft.com/content/e5da7064-3a46-4bab-9a6c-12ae03eead16
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This deal has done a complete transition from the business pages to the front pages the politics section
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about 1 month ago
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Ellison asks for đđ¤Ąâs help. Promises to make CNN more friendly.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Paramount Makes $77.9 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner After Netflix Struck Deal
Paramount is taking its case for acquiring the company directly to shareholders just days after Warner agreed to a deal with Netflix.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-hostile-takeover-bid-f03c6f3f
about 1 month ago
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Ah yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Command Economy!!
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about 1 month ago
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Paramountâs offer for WBD
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
about 1 month ago
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đ𤥠thumb is officially on the scale in the WBD bidding contest
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
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Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-warner-bros-netflix
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An old fashioned hostile tender offer for $30 cash.
deadline.com/2025/12/para...
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Paramount Launches Hostile Takeover Offer For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount today announced it has commenced an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Warner Bros. Discovery for $30.00 per share in cash.
https://deadline.com/2025/12/paramount-launches-hostile-takeover-bid-warner-bros-discovery-1236641640/
about 1 month ago
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Expect more changes at 60 MinutesâŚ
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about 1 month ago
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The worst of all outcomes. Probably the most likely.
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about 1 month ago
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âIâll be involved in that decision.â Deploying his đđ¤Ą-like knowledge of the nationâs anti-trust laws.
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about 1 month ago
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But did he bring a nice medal? Perhaps a Netflix Peace Prize to smooth the way?
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about 1 month ago
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USG as venture investor⌠(This is all insanity, btw)
www.wsj.com/tech/trump-a...
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Trump Administration to Take Equity Stake in Former Intel CEOâs Chip Startup
XLight will get up to $150 million to develop ultraprecise lasers for squeezing more circuits onto semiconductors.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-administration-to-take-equity-stake-in-former-intel-ceos-chip-startup-9dcd9367
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Not my fatherâs Republican Party, thatâs for sure.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Boeing says Trump's equity stake plan doesn't apply to big US defense firms
Trump's commerce secretary previously said the government was considering taking stakes in major contractors.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-says-trumps-equity-stake-plan-doesnt-apply-big-us-defense-firms-2025-12-06/
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Realizing that we have become the bad guys in our own story. Apparently, everything we stood for during the post-War era was wrong.
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about 1 month ago
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Financial Times
about 1 month ago
Netflix leans on $59bn bank loan to fund Warner Bros takeover
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Netflix leans on $59bn bank loan to fund Warner Bros takeover
Wells Fargo leads one of the largest financings of its kind as it looks to muscle in on investment banking rivals
https://on.ft.com/4plDe51
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Karl Bode
about 1 month ago
we're special (you're not)
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Why Netflix says its Warner Bros. deal won't be a failure like other media mega-mergers before it
Netflix defended its Warner Bros. deal as strategic, saying it has industry expertise and strength absent from past failed M&A.
https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-warner-bros-discovery-deal-wont-repeat-past-acquisition-flops-2025-12
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The FT says what weâre all thinking!
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about 1 month ago
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Nicholas Grossman
about 1 month ago
Netflix getting Warner Bros. is bad for art, but right-wing oligarchs not getting it is bad for fascism. The Ellisons already got Paramount and Fox-ified CBS, plus a big stake in TikTok USA and more. On balance, avoiding more Orban-style media consolidation is a good outcome. Such are the times.
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Netflix: âWe are highly confident in the regulatory process and expect to get approvals.â Ignores the next question about whether there might be topping bid from Para.
about 1 month ago
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Q: âwhy will this acquisition of Warner differ from any previous acquisition of Warner?â Ouch!
about 1 month ago
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