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The Deal
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.
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Feb 10, 2021 • 20min
Behind the Buyouts: Sajan Pillai Strengthens India's Ties to Silicon Valley
Sajan Pillai, the founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, sees tech talent from India fueling investment opportunities as he works to accelerate growth at his portfolio companies in the latest episode of Behind the Buyouts.

Feb 4, 2021 • 39min
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.

Jan 28, 2021 • 40min
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 7, 2021 • 24min
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.

Dec 18, 2020 • 31min
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 17, 2020 • 23min
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 16, 2020 • 24min
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 10, 2020 • 21min
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 3, 2020 • 30min
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

Nov 19, 2020 • 20min
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.


