The Deal
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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Sep 18, 2025 • 23min
Drinks With The Deal: Baker & McKenzie's Broder Offers Corporate Version of LA Law
Jennifer Broder, an M&A partner at Baker & McKenzie in Los Angeles, discusses clerking for Leo Strine, working as an associate for Bob Denham and how presiding over a mock trial in third grade helped set her on a path to becoming a lawyer.
Sep 12, 2025 • 22min
Activist Investing Today: Brand Eyes Director Notice Compromises
White & Case's Richard Brand suggests that passive investors, other institutions and academics should develop best practices for corporate bylaws seeking information about an activist's director nominations, as the matter right now is left to the courts to decide.
Sep 4, 2025 • 24min
Drinks With The Deal: Simpson's Cooper on Refinitiv, Lehman, Team Building
Elizabeth Cooper, the head of private equity at Simpson Thacher, talks about transitioning from M&A to PE as a young partner and how advising Blackstone on the Refinitiv deal transformed her career.
Aug 28, 2025 • 17min
Drinks With The Deal: A&O Shearman's Litowitz Talks Paramount, Merger Integration
Dan Litowitz, the U.S. deputy co-head of M&A at A&O Shearman, discusses what he's learned from watching his clients integrate acquisitions that he's applied to the merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling and work he's done for Paramount.
Aug 21, 2025 • 31min
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.
Aug 14, 2025 • 45min
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.
Aug 7, 2025 • 23min
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.
Jul 29, 2025 • 23min
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.
Jul 24, 2025 • 25min
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.
Jul 21, 2025 • 17min
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.
