Hard to think of a better way to open a forum on dealmaking than with a keynote by Liberty Media Corp. CEO Greg Maffei. The former Microsoft Corp. CFO, who also did a stint as president and CFO of Oracle Corp., is one of the corporate world's top dealmakers, hired by media kingpin John Malone in late 2005 to turn a sprawling collection of assets into an operating company. Naturally, the restructuring has included plenty of deals, including the ones that added DirectTV and the Atlanta Braves to the Liberty portfolio. Maffei will talk about all this on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Denver Athletic Club when he kicks off the Dealmaker's Forum, an afternoon event organized by Corporate Dealmaker and ACG Denver. Then he'll take questions from the audience, and also from yours truly. If you can't make it, watch this blog to find out what we talked about. — Kenneth Klee

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