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.
Episodes
323 episodes
Behind the Buyouts: Oak Hill's Baker on MetroNet Investment, Fiber's S-Curve
Oak Hill Capital's managing partner Scott Baker walks listeners through the firm's 11-year investment in Metronet Inc., an early mover in the push to spool fiber to homes throughout the country.
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31:01
Drinks With The Deal: Bok on How Wall Street Is Like 'Glengarry Glen Ross'
Scott Bok, the former chairman and CEO of M&A boutique Greenhill, discusses his career, his new memoir and the challenges of managing the highly ambitious people in finance.
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44:36
Drinks With The Deal: Holland & Knight's August on Advising Growth Companies
Adam August, a corporate partner at Holland & Knight in Tysons, Va., discusses his work for companies that have the federal government as a significant customer and why he enjoys advising clients from formation to sale.
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23:10
Activist Investing Today: Kobre's Kim on Samsung, Chaebols, Browder
Kobre & Kim co-founder Michael Kim explains why the environment for activist investing in South Korea is improving, despite structural restrictions, and he discusses his work advising Putin critic Bill Browder.
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22:42
Behind The Buyouts: Houlihan's Abelow On PE Resilience in 2025
Justin Abelow, managing director in Houlihan Lokey's financial sponsors group, discusses PE's resilience in navigating a challenging M&A environment and the alternate structures firms are pursuing for liquidity.
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24:50
Behind the Buyouts: Schroders Capital's Knox on Evolving GP Landscape
Schroders Capital's senior investment director of private equity Jeremy Knox discusses the growth in continuation funds in a tough exit environment, as well as the firm's interest in asset-light services businesses as a co-investor.
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17:27
Drinks With The Deal: Wachtell's Kirman, Tetelbaum Discuss Mentorship
Wachtell M&A partners Igor Kirman and Lina Tetelbaum discuss the evolution of their mentor-protege relationship over the past 15 years and how it's enriched their practices and their lives.
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39:14
Behind the Buyouts: Transact Capital's Karr on Contract Manufacturing Growth
Transact Capital managing director Justin Karr discusses the state of the consumer market in 2025, including private equity interest in contract manufacturing and better-for-you food.
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20:22
Activist Investing Today: Litt Targets REIT CEO Pay
Real estate activist Jonathan Litt discusses concerns that REIT boards often identify distorted peer groups to justify problematic executive pay, as well as why specific directors at 15 REITs should face vote-no campaigns.
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18:51
Drinks With The Deal: Gibson Dunn's Scrivani on Managing Job Demands
Gibson Dunn M&A partner Brian Scrivani talks about how he handles the stress of legal practice and the importance of maintaining a life outside of work, as well as how he thought about changing law firms.
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22:31
Drinks With The Deal: Mintz's Reicin on Finding Meaning in Biotech Work
Cheryl Reicin, the co-chair of the life sciences group at Mintz, discusses how she became a biotech lawyer and why observing the Sabbath has been good for her as a lawyer.
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19:18
Activist Investing Today: Lawndale's Shapiro on 'Problem' Boards
Andrew Shapiro, who ran an activist fund for 32 years, discusses how one campaign helped form his investment vehicle and talks about good and bad investor communication policies.
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31:01
Activist Investing Today: Skadden's Breheny on Expected SEC Shifts
Brian Breheny, the former chief of the SEC's M&A division, discusses expected changes to regulations affecting activist investors, including why he thinks the nation's securities regulator can eliminate activist shareholder proposals.
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33:19
Drinks With The Deal: K&L Gates' Giovannelli on Charlotte PE, Mentoring
Rick Giovannelli, the incoming co-chair of the management committee at K&L Gates, discusses the growth of private equity in Charlotte, N.C., over the course of his career and how his firm teaches lawyers to mentor and train the next generat...
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Behind the Buyouts: HCI's McCormick on Consolidating Fragmented Markets
HCI Equity co-founder and chief investment officer Doug McCormick discusses the firm's approach to buy-and-build strategies in large, fragmented and stable markets as well as navigating the challenging M&A environment in 2025.
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29:18
Drinks With The Deal: Rob Kindler of Paul Weiss on Career, Connectivity
Rob Kindler, an M&A partner at Paul Weiss, discusses his career as an M&A lawyer and banker, doing deals at Morgan Stanley and the importance of lifelong connectivity.
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23:43
Activist Investing Today: Eldar on Anti-Activist Pill Evolution
When corporations install anti-activist poison pills they are less likely to implement new share buybacks and their operationally-focused capital expenditures tend to be higher, UC Berkeley School of Law professor Ofer Eldar explains.
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23:11
Drinks With The Deal: Joele Frank on Building an M&A PR Behemoth
Joele Frank discusses how she came to public relations and her approach to growing her own firm.
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29:55
Behind the Buyouts: Solomon's Shea on Residential and Facilities Services Frenzy
Solomon Partners head of business services Tim Shea discusses private equity's growing interest in residential and facilities services and dealmaking activity in the market in 2025.
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31:36
Drinks With The Deal: Okapi's Goldfarb on Client Service, Firm Launch
Bruce Goldfarb, CEO and president of Okapi Partners, discusses launching the proxy solicitor in 2008 and how the client service skills he learned working in his father's dry cleaning business are relevant on Wall Street.
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37:46
Drinks With The Deal: Petillo-Decossard Talks Changing Firms, Work-Family Balance
Kimberly Petillo-Decossard, the co-head of M&A at White & Case, discusses building her career, her decision to change firms and how her husband's willingness to retire from his career as a banker has been pivotal to her success.
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33:55
Behind The Buyouts: TSG's LeComte on Consumer M&A in 2025
TSG managing director Pierre LeComte dives into the consumer-focused firm's investment strategy.
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25:53
Drinks With The Deal: Debevoise's Regner Discusses Delaware Amendments, Mentor
William Regner talks about legal amendments enacted last month and what he learned from Debevoise's Meredith Brown.
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