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The Deal by S&P Global
The Deal by S&P Global 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 Reporter Steve Gelsi, Chief Reporter Nikitha Sattiraju and Senior Writer Chris Nolter) and Fresh Start…
Episodes
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind the Buyouts: 3i Goes the Distance For Proprietary M&A Deals
In the latest episode of Behind the Buyouts, 3i Group dealmaker Andrew Olinick says the U.S. buyout market is big enough to find companies to purchase outside…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalT-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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalT-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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist 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 Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind 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…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Author Marc Levinson
Author, economist and historian Marc Levinson discusses the increasing importance of services and ideas and the reduced role of manufactured goods in global…
The Deal by S&P GlobalT-Mobile Sprint: Winning The Case The Experts Said Couldn't Be Won (Podcast 1)
Cleary Gottlieb partner Mark Nelson and T-Mobile EVP and general counsel David Miller kick off a series of three podcasts dedicated to the landmark…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Columbia’s Ogawa on Abe, Toshiba
Alicia Ogawa, the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School, appears on the latest episode of the Activist Investing…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Cooley's Jamie Leigh
Cooley's co-head of M&A Jamie Leigh discusses her career path, why she enjoys advising tech and life sciences companies, how she approaches mentoring younger…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind The Buyouts: Brian Gildea of Hamilton Lane Talks ESG
Hamilton Lane's Brian Gildea reveals the forces driving wider use of ESG principles in private markets, but adds that different regions of the world emphasize…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Leo Strine Jr.
Leo Strine, longtime Delaware judge and of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, discusses DuPont, Joe Biden, and corporate law in the wake of Covid-19…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Dechert's Ken Young
Ken Young, co-head of PE at Dechert, discusses how PE firms have diversified their investments, the challenges of developing law firm partners and his recent…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind The Buyouts: VMG Partners Embraces Diversity
Cassie Nielsen and Wayne Wu of VMG Partners talk about the role of diversity at their firm and in middle-market deal-making for their consumer-oriented…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Simpson's Alan Klein
Simpson's Alan Klein discusses his stint in London in the late 1990s, his work for Microsoft and Tyco and his passion for films and books on the latest episode…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Axler On Forescout and Forensics
Ben Axler, the activist shortseller behind Spruce Point Capital Management, offered a behind the scenes look at two campaigns and his investigative approach to…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Sidley's Dan Clivner
Sidley's Dan Clivner discusses lateral hiring, building a PE practice in Los Angeles and law firm diversity in the Drinks With The Deal podcast.
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind the Buyouts: Great Hill Re-Ups on Wayfair Amid Uncertainty
Great Hill Partners co-founder and managing partner Christopher S. Gaffney says the public markets got the valuation of online home products retailer Wayfair…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Kirkland's David Fox
David Fox discusses building an M&A practice at Kirkland & Ellis, his friendship with Joe Flom and his plans for the next phase of his career in the Drinks…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Author Chase Purdy
Chase Purdy discusses his new book "Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race For The Future of Food", in which he describes the effort to produce…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: CII's Bertsch on Pills, Virtual Meetings
Ken Bertsch, the executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors speaks with The Deal for its Activist Investing Today podcast about why he thinks…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Author Sarah Frier
Sarah Frier, the author of the new book 'No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram' and a technology reporter for Bloomberg, talks about how the app’s…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: AVI’s Bauernfreund on Japan Insurgencies
Joe Bauernfreund, manager of a $1 billion sometimes activist U.K. fund Asset Value Investors, discussed why he may start submitting shareholder proposals at…
The Deal by S&P GlobalBehind the Buyouts: Steen Brings the Farmer's Voice to VC
Colin Steen, managing director at Syngenta Ventures, talks about investing opportunities in the agriculture and food sectors in the The Deal's inaugural…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: UPenn's David Skeel
David Skeel, a bankruptcy professor at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his work with the Puerto Rico Oversight Board and the lessons of the great…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Goldstein Targets Fund Bylaws
Activist investor Phil Goldstein believes a recent Securities and Exchange Commission decision upholding a closed-end fund's right to ignore a shareholder…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Jackson Eyes eBay M&A Amidst Covid-19
Eric Jackson, manager of technology-focused hedge fund EMJ Capital, says he thinks the company should use cash on hand — and proceeds from expected unit sales…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Privet’s Rosenzweig on Synalloy, Covid-19
The activist investor Ben Rosenzweig talked about why Privet doesn’t want to buy Synalloy now even though he is seeking to take control of its board. He also…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Coast's Rasteh on FirstGroup, Covid-19
The founder of the New York-based activist fund explains why he hires CEO experts and other advisers to assist with the fund's campaigns. He also explains why…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: V&E's Elbaum on Covid-19 vs. 2008
Many hedge funds first-time activists, family offices and private equity funds who have been contemplating activism are going to walk away from their…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Steven Lipin of Gladstone Place Partners
Steven Lipin, founder of communications firm Gladstone Place Partners, talks with The Deal’s David Marcus about the Anixter and Disney/Fox deals, the lessons…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Author Geoffrey Cain
Geoffrey Cain, author of a "Samsung Rising," talked with The Deal for its Activist Investing Today Podcast, about chaebols, the biggest swing vote in South…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Banking Insurgent on M&A, Majority Votes
New community banking activist Abbott Cooper offers his thoughts on his M&A pushes at Community Bankers Trust and First United, two middle-market financial…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Ted Smith of Union Square Advisors
Ted Smith, president of Union Square Advisors, discusses Permira's purchase of a majority stake in Lytx, the rise of tech PE, the outlook for software M&A, his…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Hamermesh on Icahn, Bylaws and Insider Votes
Widener University's Lawrence Hamermesh talks about why there isn't much clarity about whether activists can gain access to corporate books and records to help…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Sullivan & Cromwell’s Frank Aquila
Frank Aquila discusses his work for Tiffany’s on its sale to LVMH, for AmGen on its purchase of Otezla, and for Novartis on its billion purchase of Medicines…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Columbia’s Coffee on WeWork, Softbank and IPO Ratchets
Retail investors are being harmed by essentially secret IPO protection deals still-private companies are reaching with mutual funds. At least that’s the view…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: Chris Varelas
The former Citi tech investment banker and author of 'How Money Became Dangerous' talks with The Deal’s David Marcus about working at Disneyland in the 1980s…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Antitrust Expert Talks Activism
Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute, suggested that financial activists are exerting pressure on companies to merge even though they…
The Deal by S&P GlobalDrinks With The Deal: PJ Solomon's Marc Cooper
PJ Solomon’s Marc Cooper talks about brand authenticity, the challenges of being a CEO and the joys of the half-bottle.
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Snow Park’s Pierce Talks Activism in Australia
Jeffrey Pierce, managing partner at activist fund Snow Park Capital, discusses his experiences with agitation at an Australian REIT and gives commentary the…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: McRitchie Targets Shareholder Proposals, BRT’s ‘Stakeholders’
The top proponent of shareholder proposals spoke to The Deal’s Activist Investing Today podcast about what he thinks would happen if the nation’s securities…
The Deal by S&P GlobalActivist Investing Today: Goodwin On Friedman Doctrine and CEO Lobby’s Stakeholders Push
Goodwin On CEO Lobby’s ‘Stakeholders’ Push -The chief of the Applied Corporate Governance Institute told The Deal that Milton Friedman’s 1970 doctrine of…