203 episodes

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), Behind The Buyouts (hosted by Senior Reporter Steve Gelsi) 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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    • 4.4 • 16 Ratings

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), Behind The Buyouts (hosted by Senior Reporter Steve Gelsi) 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.

    Activist Investing Today: Davies’ Olasker on Ideological Lawyers, Women in Activism

    Activist Investing Today: Davies’ Olasker on Ideological Lawyers, Women in Activism

    Davies, Ward partner Patricia Olasker discussed why a bifurcated U.S. legal advice system may change, why so few women work on M&A and activism and how that may change. 

    • 18 min
    Activist Investing Today: EY’s Hunker Eyes 2023 Proxy Season

    Activist Investing Today: EY’s Hunker Eyes 2023 Proxy Season

    The shareholder activism defense leader at Ernst & Young explains why ESG proponents and second tier activists may be reticent to launch director contests, while brand name insurgents can ‘weather the storm.’

    • 21 min
    Drinks With The Deal: Debevoise's Levitsky on Journey From Public Service to Private Practice

    Drinks With The Deal: Debevoise's Levitsky on Journey From Public Service to Private Practice

    Jonathan Levitsky, an M&A and PE partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, discussed clerking on the Supreme Court, working on the Kosovo peace accords and transitioning to an M&A and PE practice.

    • 22 min
    Drinks With The Deal: Hunton's Kennedy Talks Restrictive Covenants

    Drinks With The Deal: Hunton's Kennedy Talks Restrictive Covenants

    In the most recent Drinks With The Deal, Jim Kennedy, an M&A partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth, discussed recent Delaware decisions on restrictive covenants. 

    • 23 min
    Drinks With The Deal: Eli Black and the Limits of ESG

    Drinks With The Deal: Eli Black and the Limits of ESG

    Author Matt Garcia discusses his new biography of Eli Black, a midcentury CEO whose efforts at corporate social responsibility ended in tragedy. 

    • 27 min
    Activist Investing Today: T. Rowe’s Anderson Talks Insurgencies

    Activist Investing Today: T. Rowe’s Anderson Talks Insurgencies

    Donna Anderson, chief of corporate governance for asset manager T. Rowe Price, explains why it will speak publicly about certain deals and why companies facing activists might want to think about visiting her before traveling to see a nearby proxy adviser. 

    • 23 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

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Content: 5/5. Sound quality: 0/1.

Buy a professional microphone and some noise deadening stuff for your echoey room, please! Often the guest’s audio is far superior to the interviewer. Otherwise — fantastic podcast. Just hard to listen to. Often will begin episodes then end them after a moment because the are so hard to listen to.

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