Paramount Hires Veteran DC Lawyer Amid Warner Bros. Deal Battle

Jan. 30, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

Paramount Skydance Corp. has tapped Theodore “Ted” Lehman, a lawyer and lobbyist familiar with Washington’s corridors of power, as its new head of US public policy and government affairs while the company fights Netflix Inc.‘s bid to buy media industry rival Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Makan Delrahim, who was hired last year as Paramount’s chief legal officer, said in a company memo Friday that Lehman will bring with him more than “two decades of experiences on Capitol Hill and in the private sector” when he officially comes aboard Monday. Delrahim, a former Latham & Watkins partner, was the ...

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