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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

Fresh Start: Professor Melissa Jacoby

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, 202150 min

Drinks With The Deal: Mintz's Matt Simpson

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, 202128 min

Behind the Buyouts: EQT's Brown Pivots From Microsoft to EU Tech

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, 202122 min

Drinks With The Deal: NYU's Rob Jackson and Yale's John Morley

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, 202125 min

Fresh Start: Hilco's Ian Fredericks

Hilco Global president Ian Fredericks discusses the business of liquidation and the outlook for retail on this week’s Fresh Start podcast.

Sep 16, 202149 min

Drinks With The Deal: Freshfields' Ethan Klingsberg

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, 202130 min

Behind the Buyouts: Lovell Minnick’s Pierson Charts Fintech's Rise

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, 202132 min

Drinks With The Deal: Cleary's Jim Langston

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, 202123 min

Behind the Buyouts: Vista's Stewart on Navigating Frothy M&A Prices

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, 202126 min

Fresh Start: Professor Jared Ellias

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, 202137 min

Drinks With The Deal: Alec Dawson of Morgan Lewis

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, 202122 min

Drinks With The Deal: Historians Caley Horan and Dan Bouk

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, 202139 min

Activist Investing Today: BC's Fos Examines Record Date Asymmetries

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, 202125 min

Drinks With The Deal: Author Jonathan Levy

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, 202144 min

Drinks With The Deal: Author Destin Jenkins

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, 202137 min

Activist Investing Today: Minow Contrasts Gordon Gekko, Engine No. 1

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, 202119 min

Drinks With The Deal: O'Melveny's David Makarechian

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, 202130 min

Activist Investing Today: Rose on Robovoting, Proxy Fights

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, 202128 min

Drinks With The Deal: Skadden's Ann Beth Stebbins

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, 202126 min

Drinks With The Deal: Mayer Brown's David Carpenter

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, 202118 min
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