Professor Melissa Jacoby of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses the limits of bankruptcy in handling mass tort cases and the recent filings of Purdue Pharma LP and others on the latest episode of the Fresh Start podcast.
Oct 25, 2021•50 min
M&A lawyer Krishna Veeraraghavan talks about health care M&A and the risks of excessive antitrust regulation of combinations between biotech and pharma companies in the Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Oct 13, 2021•17 min
Matt Simpson of Mintz Levin discussed his transition from peace negotiator to M&A lawyer, why he enjoys the middle market, what he's learned from advising reps and warranties insurers and how he finds serenity on sailboats in the latest edition of Drinks With The Deal.
Sep 30, 2021•28 min
EQT Growth head Marc Brown said EQT's desire as a firm to do well financially while promoting diversity and inclusion appealed to him as he looked to start a new phase of his career after 20 years working on M&A deals at Microsoft.
Sep 29, 2021•22 min
Moelis' Duncan Herrington spoke with the Activist Investing Today podcast about proxy advisers and corporate director selection efforts following ESG activist Engine No. 1's big win at Exxon Mobil.
Sep 20, 2021•23 min
Rob Jackson, a former SEC commissioner and current NYU Law professor, and John Morley, a professor at Yale Law School, said SPACs should be treated more stringently by the SEC and discussed their current research projects during the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Sep 16, 2021•25 min
Hilco Global president Ian Fredericks discusses the business of liquidation and the outlook for retail on this week’s Fresh Start podcast.
Sep 16, 2021•49 min
Brian Stafford, CEO of the governance risk and compliance software provider Diligent Corp., explains why he thinks boards are reevaluating their membership in the wake of Engine No. 1’s surprising ESG victory at Exxon Mobil.
Sep 02, 2021•18 min
V&E's Lande Spottswood discussed the energy sector's recent evolution and the implications for both private equity and strategic buyers on the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Sep 01, 2021•22 min
Ethan Klingsberg, head of U.S. corporate and M&A at Freshfields, discussed the pressures that increased antitrust scrutiny has put on dealmaking and how companies can respond during the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Aug 19, 2021•30 min
Lovell Minnick's Steve Pierson says smaller, more nimble financial tech companies have driven large financial institutions to hire, acquire or partner with them to boost growth and innovation in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.
Aug 13, 2021•32 min
Cleary Gottlieb's Jim Langston discussed how companies are responding to more vigorous antitrust enforcement during the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Aug 05, 2021•23 min
Rene Stewart, Co-head of Vista Equity Partners’ Endeavor Fund, talks about how the fund finds high quality businesses, navigates frothy markets and helps scale businesses through operational support in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.
Jul 27, 2021•26 min
On this week’s Fresh Start podcast, UC Hastings Law professor Jared Ellias discusses his new paper, which quantifies a trend gaining increasing attention, the increase in corporate directors with bankruptcy experience on the boards of companies entering Chapter 11.
Jul 22, 2021•37 min
M&A lawyer Alec Dawson, of Morgan Lewis, discusses the opportunities and challenges in the SPAC market and the difficulties of doing deals remotely on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Jul 22, 2021•22 min
Kilometre Music Group CEO Michael McCarty and Apex Fund Services' John Bohan say PE firms remain keen on acquiring music royalties, with an eye on subscription revenue from music streaming services in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.
Jul 14, 2021•15 min
Caley Horan, a history professor at MIT, and Dan Bouk, who teaches at Colgate, discussed their work on the history of life insurance in the U.S. 20th century and its implications for today on the latest episode of the podcast.
Jul 08, 2021•39 min
Vyacheslav Fos, a professor in Boston College's finance department, discussed his new paper on shareholder record dates and findings that corporations can disclose such dates in ways that leave retail investors and some sophisticated shareholders in the dark.
Jul 06, 2021•25 min
Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago professor and author of the new book 'Ages of American Capitalism,' discussed the influence of the 2008 financial crisis on his work, the role of the factory in the American imagination, Herman Melville's insight into American economic life and his love for the city of Houston on this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Jul 01, 2021•44 min
Sun Capital co-founder and co-CEO Marc Leder said the firm focuses on opportunistic deals with companies facing challenges rather than pristine targets that need little operational input in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.
Jun 30, 2021•25 min
Destin Jenkins, a history professor at the University of Chicago, discussed his new book 'The Bonds of Inequality,' and how San Francisco's municipal bond market was used for more than four decades to advantage whites at the expense of blacks and the city’s Asian-American community.
Jun 17, 2021•37 min
Nell Minow, vice chair of ValueEdge Advisors, a former activist investor and ex-president of Institutional Shareholder Services, explains why insurgent fund managers no longer must resemble the corporate raider-type character portrayed in 'Wall Street' when considering director contests.
Jun 11, 2021•19 min
David Magdol, president and chief investment officer at business development company Main Street Capital, talks about his view of the economy through the lens of 174 portfolio companies in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.
Jun 09, 2021•22 min
David Makarechian, who heads the emerging technologies group and the northern California corporate department at O’Melveny & Myers, compares today's tech market with that of the late 1990s and discusses his work with Silicon Catalyst and his love of Singapore street food on this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Jun 03, 2021•30 min
Paul Rose, associate dean for strategic initiatives at Ohio State University, talked about his new study on the relationship between big investors and proxy advisers as well as his view that the activist investment movement wouldn’t exist in its current form without the help of proxy advisers.
May 26, 2021•28 min
TJ Maloney, CEO of middle market PE shop Lincolnshire, tackles myth versus reality on private equity as job killers or creators in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.
May 26, 2021•17 min
Ann Beth Stebbins, partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, discusses her work with Gucci, Westfield and Apax; her thoughts about building and strengthening client relationships; and her deep ties to Georgetown on this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
May 20, 2021•26 min
Winston Song, the managing director and co-head of the consumer group at New York-based private equity firm Vestar Capital, talks about his role in the better-for-you foods business.
May 04, 2021•26 min
Julie Cohn, author of a leading history of the electricity grid, discusses the February power outages in Texas as well as how the grid might change in this week's Drinks With The Deal.
Apr 29, 2021•28 min
David Carpenter, the co-head of Mayer Brown's New York corporate and securities practice, talks about his work for Nestle, his love of wine and his involvement with SommTV is the latest episode of the podcast.
Apr 15, 2021•18 min