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The Deal podcast network brings The Deal’s award winning coverage in M&A, activist investing, private equity and restructuring to your airwaves. With a suite of offerings, including Activist Investing Today (hosted by Senior Editor Ronald Orol), Drinks With The Deal (hosted by Senior Writer David Marcus and Senior Reporter Bill Meagher), Behind The Buyouts (hosted by Senior Reporters Steve Gelsi, Nikitha Sattiraju and Senior Writer Chris Nolter) and Fresh Start (hosted by Senior Reporter Stephanie Gleason), The Deal’s podcast network is your go-to source for timely financial news and perspective.

Episodes

Activist Investing Today: Freed on Corporate Election Proposals and Risk

On the latest episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast, Bruce Freed, the co-founder and president of the Center for Political Accountability, discusses the growth in support for shareholder proposals urging corporations to disclose election-related spending – and he explains why companies that don’t disclose payments face political risk.

Apr 13, 202120 min

Drinks With The Deal: Duane Morris's Anastasia Kaup

Duane Morris finance partner Anastasia Kaup talks about her practice, her work with the firm's diversity and inclusion committee, the importance of mentoring and her enjoyment of Krav Maga in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Apr 08, 202122 min

Drinks With The Deal: Author Christopher Phillips

Christopher Phillips, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon, discusses his book Scouting and Scoring, on the long history of talent evaluation and data usage in major league baseball in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Mar 31, 202124 min

Drinks With The Deal: Jones Day's Vica Irani

The market in Europe has held up surprisingly well over the last year, Vica Irani, head of EMEA M&A at Jones Day, said on the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Mar 11, 202120 min

Women In Dealmaking with Germaine Gurr and Peter Wexler

White & Case M&A partner Germain Gurr and Peter Wexler, of long-time client Schneider Electric, sit down with The Deal to talk dealmaking, her life-long pursuit of improved opportunities for women and Latin Americans in law, and more. Sponsored.

Mar 04, 202123 min

Drinks With The Deal Podcast: Gunderson's John Olson

John Olson, partner at San Francisco-based Gunderson Dettmer, discussed the appeal of SPACs for technology companies and the continued prominence of Silicon Valley as a tech center in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Mar 04, 202123 min

Drinks With The Deal: Hunton's Steven Haas

Steven Haas, the co-head of M&A at Hunton Andrews Kurth, discusses what he learned from working for Travis Laster, the state of Delaware law on officer liability, MAE clauses and ordinary course covenants and why he enjoys teaching M&A at the University of Richmond in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Feb 18, 202129 min

Activist Investing Today: Coast’s Rasteh on ESG Activism, Gold Miners

James Rasteh, the founder of the sometimes activist fund Coast Capital, offered up a new strategy for environmental activists, and reasons he thinks the Canadian gold mining sector is ripe for consolidation and ESG efforts, on the latest episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast.

Feb 12, 202132 min

Drinks With The Deal: Fried Frank's Amber Banks

Amber Banks, partner at Fried Frank, discusses the challenges of being a lawyer from a non-traditional background and how law firms can become more welcoming places for women and people of color in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Feb 04, 202139 min

Drinks With The Deal: MIT's Will Deringer

MIT historian of finance Will Deringer talks about what he learned from his time as a Blackstone analyst, Michael Milken and early spreadsheet programs, the South Sea Bubble and the many uses of present value in this week's episode of Drinks With The Deal.

Jan 28, 202140 min

Drinks With The Deal: Goodwin Procter's Stuart Cable

Stuart Cable, vice chair and head of M&A at Goodwin Procter, discusses building the firm's biotech practice, helping Covid-19 vaccine developer Moderna grow over the years and recent transformational deals in the latest edition of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Jan 07, 202124 min

Activist Investing Today: Goodwin on Governance, Pay as “Wedge Issues”

On this episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast, Shane Goodwin, the chief of the Applied Corporate Governance Institute, explains why credible “economically motivated” activists won’t target corporations with poor governance or problematic CEO pay unless they have a broader M&A or operational goal in mind.

Dec 18, 202031 min

Drinks With The Deal: Bryan Cave's Stephanie Hosler

Stephanie Hosler, who heads Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's corporate and finance transactions group, talks about her experiences as a Latina M&A lawyer and her desire to help create a more diverse workplace in the latest edition of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Dec 17, 202023 min

Behind the Buyouts: Gig Wage CEO Eyes Gig Economy, Venture Capital and Diversity

CEO Craig J. Lewis discusses the rapid growth of his Dallas-based company Gig Wage Inc., a payroll services specialist for companies that use part time workers in the gig economy and how he sees a missed opportunity by venture capitalists to invest in African American startups in the latest episode of Behind the Buyouts.

Dec 16, 202024 min

Drinks With The Deal: Davis Polk's Daniel Brass

Davis Polk's Daniel Brass discusses the challenges of cross-border dealmaking and lessons he learned when he started practicing in New York after starting his career at Slaughter and May in London on the latest episode of Drinks With The Deal.

Dec 10, 202021 min

T-Mobile Sprint: Winning The Case The Experts Said Couldn't Be Won (Podcast 3)

Our third and final installment on the precedent-making merger of T-Mobile and Sprint features Melissa Scanlan, who oversees antitrust law in T-Mobile’s legal department, and David Gelfand, one of the lead lawyers on Cleary Gottlieb’s trial team. The pair explore the future regulatory implications of the court’s decision in their case. Sponsored

Dec 03, 202030 minEp. 3

Drinks With The Deal: Debevoise's Paul Bird

Paul Bird, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, discusses his work for Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Aveva's acquisition of OSIsoft on the latest episode of Drinks With The Deal.

Nov 19, 202020 min

Behind the Buyouts: Checkpoint's Billy Weber Talks Fintech, M&A

Billy Weber, a former banker and current CEO of fintech company Checkpoint Capital, provides perspective on monetary policy, the community banking space and increased transparency in the bond market looking ahead to 2021 in the latest episode of Behind the Buyouts.

Nov 18, 202028 min

Drinks With The Deal: Latham's Luke Bergstrom

Luke Bergstrom, an M&A partner at Latham & Watkins, discusses his passion for cocktails, how he got from Pittsburgh to Silicon Valley in the 1990s and how he approaches helping manage Latham's global M&A and technology groups.

Nov 05, 202025 min

Drinks With The Deal: Hughes Hubbard's Ken Lefkowitz

Ken Lefkowitz, an M&A partner at Hughes Hubbard, talks about his work for clients including Frank Lozenzo's Jet Capital and Anthony Tan, who founded Singapore-based ride-hailing company Grab, during the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast hosted by David Marcus.

Oct 29, 202019 min

Behind the Buyouts: Priya Karkar of Kline Hill Sees Secondary PE Uptick

Priya Pradhan Karkar, vice president of business development, at Kline Hill Partners, expects an uptick in secondary PE fund stake M&A in Q4 after a Covid-prompted lull. While the secondary market has traditionally been a place for larger deals with big LPs as buyers, Kline Hill focuses on the lower end of the middle market in the buying and selling of PE fund positions.

Oct 28, 202021 min

T-Mobile Sprint: Winning The Case The Experts Said Couldn't Be Won (Podcast 2)

In the second of our three-part series on the landmark T-Mobile/Sprint transaction, Cleary Gottlieb partners George Cary and Daniel Culley and T-Mobile’s senior vice president of litigation and intellectual property Laura Buckland discuss the intense federal court trial the wireless carriers won against a group of several state attorneys general. Cary, Culley and Buckland deconstruct U.S. District Judge Victor Merrero’s decision in the case and offer their opinions on what swayed the judge to th...

Oct 24, 202036 minEp. 2

Activist Investing Today: Zacchei Eyes PE Activism, Post-Election

Dan Zacchei, the president of special situation communications at Sloane, explains why activism can be compared to professional sports within the context of the pandemic, partnerships between PE firms and activists as well as expectations for the industry post-election, among other topics, on the latest episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast.

Oct 22, 202024 min

Drinks With The Deal: Cravath's Damien Zoubek

Cravath, Swaine & Moore's Damien Zoubek discusses changing corporate attitudes toward ESG, the effects of the pandemic on deals signed up in the months before it started and transactions being negotiated now as well as his love of wine in the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Oct 15, 202029 min

Activist Investing Today: Coffee Weighs DOL Rules Impact on ESG

Columbia Law School professor John Coffee talks about why he thinks a new Labor Department proposal represents a shot against ESG investing, new SEC rules for shareholder proposals, and more, on the latest episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast.

Oct 07, 202026 min
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