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Josh Fabian, an African American entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Metafy Inc., says Covid fueled interest in his business that turns esports stars into coaches, while the Black Lives Matter movement stoked investor efforts to fund African American entrepreneurs in this week's Behind The Buyouts podcast episode.

Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap, authors of a new book detailing the vicious, protracted Caesars restructuring, discuss the historic case in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

The market in Europe has held up surprisingly well over the last year, Vica Irani, head of EMEA M&A at Jones Day, said on the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Ancora’s James Chadwick, head of alternative investments, discussed why retailers should consider sale-lease backs and how ex-CFOs and founders can help drive an activist campaign, on the latest episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast. 

White & Case M&A partner Germain Gurr and Peter Wexler, of long-time client Schneider Electric, sit down with The Deal to talk dealmaking, her life-long pursuit of improved opportunities for women and Latin Americans in law, and more. Sponsored.

John Olson, partner at San Francisco-based Gunderson Dettmer, discussed the appeal of SPACs for technology companies and the continued prominence of Silicon Valley as a tech center in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

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.

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 at the University of Richmond in this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.

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 episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast. 

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.

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.

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 With The Deal.

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 Drinks With The Deal podcast. 

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 problematic CEO pay unless they have a broader M&A or operational goal in mind.  

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 Drinks With The Deal podcast. 

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 invest in African American startups in the latest episode of Behind the Buyouts.

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. 

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 team. The pair explore the future regulatory implications of the court’s decision in their case. Sponsored

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.

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 of Behind the Buyouts.

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.

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 Deal podcast hosted by David Marcus.

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 with big LPs as buyers, Kline Hill focuses on the lower end of the middle market in the buying and selling of PE fund positions.

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 intense federal court trial the wireless carriers won against a group of several state attorneys general. Cary, Culley and Buckland deconstruct U.S. District...

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 the industry post-election, among other topics, on the latest episode of the Activist Investing Today podcast.