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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 the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

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 Today podcast.

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 the latest episode of the Drinks With The Deal podcast.

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 education.

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.

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 clearance for the transaction, including the development of the business case and the public and regulatory messaging, and the strategy for DOJ, FCC, the Hi...

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 legacy on governance and corporate stewardship, ongoing issues at Toshiba, and more.

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.

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 to shape social agendas in a positive way.

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.

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.

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 still occupy less than 50% of the boards of consumer companies.

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.

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 well as working with private investigator partners.

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.

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 in April with two other private investors to buy $535 million in senior notes in Wayfair, convertible at $72.50 a share, at a time when the stock was tr...

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.

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.

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 of the company adopting them. Bertsch also talks about virtual meeting shenanigans and universal proxy cards.

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 and what he might do next. She also discussed the elements of good design in the smartphone era and how regulators should approach tech M&A.

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 shares, set up board subcommittees or perform a strategic review.

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 venture capital transactions.

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 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.

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 may be a "coronavirus play" and what activist investors in the business may be thinking about its new CEO.