Activist investor and adviser Michael Levin explains how he's seeking to strengthen a Delaware settlement to require a binding pay vote at the electric car maker, and he talks Tesla reincorporation and more.
Mar 15, 2024•26 min
In the latest episode of Drinks With The Deal, Wachtell’s Jake Kling talks about milestone deals for him, what he learned from his clerkship and how becoming a parent changed his view of being a lawyer.
Mar 14, 2024•29 min
Lincolnshire principal Matt Nacier discusses the firm's interest and investments in business services, including facility services, an increase in M&A opportunities in 2024 and more.
Mar 01, 2024•30 min
On this week’s episode of Drinks With The Deal, Ryan Stone, a corporate development professional at Cadence Design Systems, discusses how an early stint in the Marine Corps helped shape his career.
Feb 29, 2024•27 min
Elina Tetelbaum, a Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz activist defense partner, takes AIT behind the scenes to explain how companies and activists negotiate confidentiality agreements, as well as the trading and campaigning restrictions they typically include.
Feb 23, 2024•30 min
In this week’s Drinks With The Deal, Steve Cohen talks about his varied legal career, in which he’s been the GC at Ron Perelman’s MacAndrews & Forbes and worked for New York governors Mario and Andrew Cuomo.
Feb 15, 2024•43 min
On this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast, Chris Machera, the co-head of PE at Weil, discusses how early jobs in restaurants and as a paralegal were great training for life as a lawyer.
Feb 01, 2024•23 min
Macquarie Capital's global head of financial sponsors Tom Amster discusses private equity's dealmaking prospects in 2024 amid mounting pressure to return capital to LPs.
Jan 31, 2024•25 min
Freshfields activist defense attorneys Ethan Klingsberg and Elizabeth Bieber discuss insider-controlled company activism, subcommittee formation in settlements, governance and more.
Jan 24, 2024•30 min
Kathy Ruhland discusses leading deal teams and being co-head of the corporate practice group at DLA Piper as well as her time in-house at General Mills.
Jan 18, 2024•27 min
Perella Weinberg activism banker Jillian Alsheimer and her husband, Sebastian, an activism partner at Wilson Sonsini, discuss marriage, white squires, M&A and prospects for Bernie Sanders as a labor-backed director nominee.
Jan 12, 2024•28 min
Law firms will have to relate to their associates very differently in the next decade, says Orrick’s Matthew Gemello, in just one of the major changes facing Big Law.
Jan 03, 2024•31 min
Akin’s Doug Rappaport and Jason Koenig discuss strategic board subcommittee disclosures, books and records requests and unintended consequences for companies with 13D rules.
Dec 21, 2023•25 min
Steve Epstein, the co-head of M&A and PE at Fried Frank, discusses his time as a junior banker in Frank Quattrone’s tech group at Credit Suisse, his return to the law and the challenges of running a group.
Dec 20, 2023•22 min
Goldman Sachs global head of M&A structuring David Dubner discusses the growth in corporate separations, particularly at large-cap businesses with diversified operations, amid a rise in interest rates over the past couple of years.
Dec 19, 2023•30 min
Corsair Partner Jeremy Schein discusses the convergence of payments and software, unpacks a recent insurance exit and takes stock of sponsors' portco pipeline.
Dec 14, 2023•28 min
In the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast, Fenwick M&A partner Bomi Lee talked about her decision to focus on tech M&A and what changes when a lawyer makes partner at a firm.
Dec 07, 2023•28 min
Investcorp's head of North American private equity, Dave Tayeh, discusses backing middle market businesses that serve 'needs versus wants.'
Nov 27, 2023•37 min
Following a number of crackdowns from global competition regulators, Baker McKenzie partners Duffy Lorenz and Creighton Macy share their experiences, insights and advice for clients looking to run a smooth deal process and minimize unexpected antitrust curveballs.
Nov 20, 2023•18 min
Eli Albrecht, a partner at SMB Law Group, talks about creating an M&A practice outside of a large law firm on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Nov 16, 2023•27 min
White & Case partner James Hu explains why activists frequently push for sales and divestitures and how a transaction without a shareholder vote can attract insurgent funds.
Nov 14, 2023•23 min
In the latest Drinks With The Deal, SPAC sponsor Harry Sloan discusses perhaps the most successful SPAC ever, how Eagle Equity approaches the SPAC market and why as the head of MGM he hired Tom Cruise when nobody would.
Nov 09, 2023•43 min
Mark Lebovitch, a longtime shareholder plaintiffs lawyer, discusses his career, his recent decision to retire from his practice and what he may do next.
Nov 02, 2023•36 min
Managing director Gloria Lin, who focuses on strategic defense and shareholder advisory, discusses the pros and cons of defense PIPE infusions, governance and M&A insurgencies.
Oct 20, 2023•26 min
In the latest Drinks With The Deal Podcast, Databricks general counsel Trâm Phi discusses the company’s $1.3 billion purchase of MosaicML, the legal uncertainty around AI and the challenges of managing a growing legal department.
Oct 19, 2023•24 min
Baker McKenzie’s Helen Mantel and Jo Hewitt talk with host Surani Fernando following the publication of Baker McKenzie’s 20th anniversary edition of its Post-Acquisition Integration Handbook . Mantel and Hewitt share their unique experiences, insights and advice for clients seeking to yield optimal value creation once an M&A deal closes. This episode touches upon key themes including a changing regulatory landscape, foreign investment review, ESG, tax and employment law, IT and internal syst...
Oct 16, 2023•19 min
Solomon's co-head of consumer and retail Cathy Leonhardt discusses the choppy consumer M&A market and the busy sub-sectors still catching investor attention.
Oct 12, 2023•19 min
Skadden partners Richard Grossman and Demetrius Warrick discuss expanded board settlements, M&A activism, short seller attacks and spinoff, startup activists.
Oct 12, 2023•26 min
In the most recent Drinks With The Deal podcast, Paul Weiss M&A partner Laura Turano discusses working with Carrier on its deal for Viessmann and Merck on its acquisition of Prometheus as well as key deals in her development as a lawyer.
Oct 05, 2023•27 min
Doug Ellenoff, who heads up Ellenoff Grossman & Schole's SPAC practice talks about how SPAC's obituary was premature. Guest hosted by senior reporter Bill Meagher.
Sep 21, 2023•53 min