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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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Nov 18, 2020 • 28min
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 5, 2020 • 25min
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.
Oct 29, 2020 • 19min
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 28, 2020 • 21min
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 24, 2020 • 36min
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 their side. Sponsored
Oct 22, 2020 • 24min
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 15, 2020 • 29min
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 7, 2020 • 26min
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 1, 2020 • 30min
Drinks With The Deal: Pillsbury's Allison Leopold Tilley
Allison Leopold Tilley, a partner at Pillsbury in Silicon Valley, discusses how she built her practice, the lessons she learned from being a director at FBR during its eventful final year and maintaining firm cohesiveness during the pandemic in the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Sep 23, 2020 • 19min
Behind the Buyouts: VSS's Stevenson Takes the Long View on Investing
In the latest episode, VSS managing partner Jeffrey Stevenson traces the arc of the PE firm's development from a shop focused on media deals in the 1980s to its current focus on business services, healthcare IT and services, information and education.
