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On this week’s episode of Drinks With The Deal, Ryan Stone, a corporate development professional at Cadence Design Systems, discusses how an early stint in the Marine Corps helped shape his career. 

Elina Tetelbaum, a Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz activist defense partner, takes AIT behind the scenes to explain how companies and activists negotiate confidentiality agreements, as well as the trading and campaigning restrictions they typically include.

In this week’s Drinks With The Deal, Steve Cohen talks about his varied legal career, in which he’s been the GC at Ron Perelman’s MacAndrews & Forbes and worked for New York governors Mario and Andrew Cuomo.

On this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast, Chris Machera, the co-head of PE at Weil, discusses how early jobs in restaurants and as a paralegal were great training for life as a lawyer. 

Macquarie Capital's global head of financial sponsors Tom Amster discusses private equity's dealmaking prospects in 2024 amid mounting pressure to return capital to LPs.

Freshfields activist defense attorneys Ethan Klingsberg and Elizabeth Bieber discuss insider-controlled company activism, subcommittee formation in settlements, governance and more.

Kathy Ruhland discusses leading deal teams and being co-head of the corporate practice group at DLA Piper as well as her time in-house at General Mills. 

Perella Weinberg activism banker Jillian Alsheimer and her husband, Sebastian, an activism partner at Wilson Sonsini, discuss marriage, white squires, M&A and prospects for Bernie Sanders as a labor-backed director nominee.

Law firms will have to relate to their associates very differently in the next decade, says Orrick’s Matthew Gemello, in just one of the major changes facing Big Law. 

Akin’s Doug Rappaport and Jason Koenig discuss strategic board subcommittee disclosures, books and records requests and unintended consequences for companies with 13D rules.

Steve Epstein, the co-head of M&A and PE at Fried Frank, discusses his time as a junior banker in Frank Quattrone’s tech group at Credit Suisse, his return to the law and the challenges of running a group.  

Goldman Sachs global head of M&A structuring David Dubner discusses the growth in corporate separations, particularly at large-cap businesses with diversified operations, amid a rise in interest rates over the past couple of years. 

Corsair Partner Jeremy Schein discusses the convergence of payments and software, unpacks a recent insurance exit and takes stock of sponsors' portco pipeline.

In the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast, Fenwick M&A partner Bomi Lee talked about her decision to focus on tech M&A and what changes when a lawyer makes partner at a firm. 

Investcorp's head of North American private equity, Dave Tayeh, discusses backing middle market businesses that serve 'needs versus wants.' 

Following a number of crackdowns from global competition regulators, Baker McKenzie partners Duffy Lorenz and Creighton Macy share their experiences, insights and advice for clients looking to run a smooth deal process and minimize unexpected antitrust curveballs.

Eli Albrecht, a partner at SMB Law Group, talks about creating an M&A practice outside of a large law firm on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.  

White & Case partner James Hu explains why activists frequently push for sales and divestitures and how a transaction without a shareholder vote can attract insurgent funds. 

In the latest Drinks With The Deal, SPAC sponsor Harry Sloan discusses perhaps the most successful SPAC ever, how Eagle Equity approaches the SPAC market and why as the head of MGM he hired Tom Cruise when nobody would.

Mark Lebovitch, a longtime shareholder plaintiffs lawyer, discusses his career, his recent decision to retire from his practice and what he may do next.   

Managing director Gloria Lin, who focuses on strategic defense and shareholder advisory, discusses the pros and cons of defense PIPE infusions, governance and M&A insurgencies. 

In the latest Drinks With The Deal Podcast, Databricks general counsel Trâm Phi discusses the company’s $1.3 billion purchase of MosaicML, the legal uncertainty around AI and the challenges of managing a growing legal department. 

Baker McKenzie’s Helen Mantel and Jo Hewitt talk with host Surani Fernando following the publication of Baker McKenzie’s 20th anniversary edition of its Post-Acquisition Integration Handbook . Mantel and Hewitt share their unique experiences, insights and advice for clients seeking to yield optimal value creation once an M&A deal closes. This episode touches upon key themes including a changin...

Solomon's co-head of consumer and retail Cathy Leonhardt discusses the choppy consumer M&A market and the busy sub-sectors still catching investor attention. 

Skadden partners Richard Grossman and Demetrius Warrick discuss expanded board settlements, M&A activism, short seller attacks and spinoff, startup activists.