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
Activist 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 Today podcast, to talk about the legacy of outgoing Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s...
Drinks 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 lawyers and how she's staying sane in the pandemic.
Behind 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 varying aspects of the approach. LPs must ask questions and then vote with their dollars...
Drinks 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 and Thomas Cromwell in this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Drinks 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 deals in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Behind 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 portfolio companies. While women make most of the purchasing decisions in the sector, they sti...
Drinks 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 of the Drink With The Deal podcast.
Activist 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 companies, which includes running background checks on executives and directors as w...
Drinks 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.
Behind 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 all wrong during Covid-19 stock market swoon earlier this year. So, the PE firm teamed up...
Drinks 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 With The Deal Podcast with David Marcus.
Drinks 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 cell-cultured meat on a commercially viable scale.
Activist 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 5% threshold poison pills are an 'extraordinary statement of weakness' on the part o...
Drinks 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 co-founder Kevin Systrom was able to succeed for so long after Facebook purchased his startup ...
Activist 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 Fujitec’s annual meeting in 2021 if it doesn’t consider divesting stakes, buy back shar...
Behind 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 edition of Behind the Buyouts, the new podcast that drills down into private equity and ventur...
Drinks 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 financial crisis for the bankruptcy system on the Drinks With The Deal podcast.
Activist 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 proposal poses a broader threat to investor rights.
Activist 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 — to make its own acquisitions. Jackson explains on Activist Investing Today why eBay...
Activist 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 discussed Privet’s partnership with an operating company for the campaign and his thes...
Activist 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 he will stick with his investment and campaign at transport and school bus company Fi...
Activist 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 campaigns, while established activist investors such as Carl Icahn are building stakes and pre...
Drinks 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 of WeWork, how he’s gone about building his firm since its 2017 launch, his love of na...
Activist 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 Korea and activist investing. Cain provided behind-the-scenes details about Samsung's ca...
Activist 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 institutions. In a wide ranging conversation, Cooper discussed what he considers to ...
