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 (hosted by Senior Reporter Stephanie Gleason), The Deal’s podcast network is your go-to source for timely financial news and perspective.
Episodes
390 episodes
Behind 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 of traditional sales processes, but it takes time.
Drinks 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 liability, MAE clauses and ordinary course covenants and why he enjoys teaching M&A ...
Activist 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 Canadian gold mining sector is ripe for consolidation and ESG efforts, on the latest episod...
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.
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.
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 Wi...
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 Drink...
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 problema...
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 Drink...
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 in...
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.&...
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 tea...
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.
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 o...
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.
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...
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 wi...
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 i...
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 t...
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 t...
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 Toda...
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...
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 educat...
Drinks 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 trade, the topic of his new book Outside The Box, in the Drinks With The Deal podcast.
T-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 T-Mobile/Sprint merger. This first episode will cover the overall strategy to obtain successful ...
