On this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast, Steve Camahort, the chair of global M&A at Paul Hastings, discusses Elon Musk's bid for Twitter as well as the evolution of tech PE and the Bay Area legal market.
Jun 16, 2022•36 min
Court Square managing partner Jeff Vogel discusses the firm's approach to investing with founders, the spin out from Citi and changes in the tech market.
Jun 15, 2022•35 min
Professor Adam Levitin of Georgetown University on the latest Fresh Start podcast discussed what could happen to investors in cryptocurrency if a crypto exchange were to file for bankruptcy.
Jun 15, 2022•49 min
Rule Garza Howley’s Rick Rule and Dan Howley discuss why now is the right time for their antitrust boutique in Washington on the latest episode of Drinks With The Deal. Guest hosted by The Deal's Washington D.C. Senior Editor David Hatch.
Jun 02, 2022•29 min
Daniel Kerstein, Barclays' global head of M&A, ESG and activist defense, insists that the deal market hasn’t yet slowed down, but if it does activists will find new entry points.
May 23, 2022•23 min
Ernest Wechsler, head of the corporate group at Kramer Levin, discusses his approach to negotiation and the value of being collegial.
May 19, 2022•26 min
Thomas H. Lee managing director Jim Carlisle discusses the buyout shop's approach to investing in technologies such as automation, software and online marketplaces.
May 17, 2022•32 min
The latest Activist Investing Today podcast interviewed Shareholder Commons’ Rick Alexander about why he thinks Twitter shareholders should demand that the social media giant set up an independent oversight trust as they evaluate Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition. Alexander tells AIT he doesn't expect regulators or shareholders will stop the deal from happening, but he thinks investors shouldn't accept a traditional deal closing because of what he calls the implications of the t...
May 12, 2022•19 min
Nicole Jantzi and Paul Schoenhard, IP partners at Fried Frank, discuss the increased importance of patents in the automotive sector as well as the companies' desire for a broad IP strategy in this week's podcast.
May 05, 2022•22 min
Matt Goodman, an M&A partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, talks about the transition from associate to partner in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Apr 21, 2022•19 min
Ele Klein, the chief of Schulte's shareholder activism group, explains why he believes ‘there was clearly something wrong’ with Elon Musk’s initial disclosure of a big Twitter investment.
Apr 08, 2022•24 min
Carolyn Vardi, head of the PE industry practice group at Ropes & Gray, talks about the current state of PE and the challenges and opportunities of a more fluid market for legal talent.
Apr 07, 2022•17 min
Fenwick & West M&A partner Ken Myers talks about the influence his mentor Alexandra Korry had on him, the challenges of being in a two-lawyer couple and how he approaches legal technology.
Mar 24, 2022•28 min
Monogram Capital co-founder and partner Jared Stein talks about finding upstart consumer brands, the firm's investment criteria and cutting through the noise to find long-term trends.
Mar 22, 2022•46 min
Gavriel Kahane, co-founder of the real estate-focused private equity firm Arkhouse Partners, talks about activism within a market that is experiencing 'rapacious private demand.'
Mar 11, 2022•18 min
UC Berkeley professor Carolyn Chen discusses her new book 'Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley,' in which she argues that companies have replaced religious institutions as sources of meaning and identity for white-collar Americans.
Mar 08, 2022•37 min
Lazard’s Jim Rossman, a top corporate defender and banker, explains why a new disclosure rule is a 'big win' for companies while changes to proxy contest rules will open the floodgates to activists nominating director candidates.
Feb 18, 2022•24 min
Kirkland debt finance partner Eric Wedel discusses the evolution of the practice and how the emergence of capital markets desks at PE sponsors have changed it in this week's podcast.
Feb 17, 2022•24 min
Wachtell Lipton’s David Katz, a top corporate defender, explains why he is excited that the nation’s securities regulator just issued new tougher transparency rules for activists.
Feb 11, 2022•25 min
Kimberly Smith, head of Katten's corporate department, discusses the current state of middle-market dealmaking, her work with family offices and increased regulatory scrutiny of even smaller deals.
Feb 03, 2022•23 min
Justin Savage, co-head of the environmental and automotive and mobility groups at Sidley Austin, discusses his unconventional path to law firm practice, what he learned at the DOJ and how he talks to boards and management teams about environmental issues.
Jan 20, 2022•18 min
Ann Chung and Kelley Morrell, managing directors at Blackstone, take a deep dive into the firm's stake in the popular shapewear brand Spanx, the private equity giant's approach to investments and more.
Jan 11, 2022•36 min
Covington head of M&A and corporate Catherine Dargan discussed building her healthcare M&A practice, current issues in healthcare dealmaking and her approaches to diversity and inclusion and associate retention in this week's podcast.
Jan 06, 2022•24 min
Eduardo Gallardo, co-chair of M&A and chair of the activist defense group at Gibson Dunn, discussed the universal proxy, the Williams case and more on this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Dec 16, 2021•20 min
Scott Mushkin, a consumer-focused researcher, discussed Mantle Ridge’s contest at Dollar Tree and compared the discount retailer’s new pricing strategy to Coca-Cola’s failed ‘New Coke’ endeavor.
Dec 15, 2021•30 min
Greg Varallo, partner at Bernstein Litowitz in Wilmington, discussed the switch from representing companies to working with shareholders, Andy Bouchard's achievements as Chancellor, his love of hunting, poker and the American University of Rome and more in this week's episode of the podcast.
Dec 09, 2021•25 min
Tariq Mundiya, the head of litigation at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, discusses the Williams poison pill case from earlier this year as well as the CytoDyn decision and the evolution of Delaware's Caremark doctrine in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Dec 02, 2021•29 min
James 'Jim' Barresi, who heads the financial services practice at Squire Patton Boggs, explains how his time as an in-house lawyer at US Bancorp in the 1990s has shaped his approach to private practice and how he works with clients who are considering a deal.
Nov 18, 2021•20 min
On the latest edition of Drinks With The Deal, David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum discuss their work editing the new Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, which considers at length the companies, entrepreneurs and trends that have driven the alcohol business.
Nov 04, 2021•44 min
Ed Zimmerman discusses building the tech group at Lowenstein Sandler and his commitment to social justice on the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Oct 28, 2021•26 min