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Drinks With The Deal: Cohen on Working for Cuomos, Perelman, Napster

By David Marcus

Published: February 15th, 2024

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.

M&A

Drinks With The Deal: Katten's Solomon on Family Office Evolution, Texas Economics

By David Marcus

Published: October 10th, 2024

Katten's Mark Solomon discusses the evolution of family offices over the past generation and how the Dallas economy has changed since he started practicing law in the city in 1985.

Activism

ESG Comp: An Easy A for CEOs?

By David Marcus

Published: October 1st, 2024

In a new paper, academics Adam Badawi and Robert Bartlett find that 63% of the S&P 500 include ESG components in their calculation of executive compensation and that such goals are almost always met.

Popping the AI Hyperbole Bubble

By David Marcus

Published: October 1st, 2024

In their new book 'AI Snake Oil,' Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan and former Facebook engineer Sayash Kapoor suggest that the use of AI in the workplace will be more evolutionary than revolutionary.

Podcasts

Drinks With The Deal: Goodwin's Nissan on Building a Practice, PE Firm Succession

By David Marcus

Published: September 26th, 2024

Ilan Nissan, head of private equity and M&A at Goodwin Procter, discusses how he developed and maintains his practice and why he enjoys advising PE sponsors on succession issues.

M&A

Drinks With The Deal: Jones Day’s Lesnick on Reynolds Work, AI

By David Marcus

Published: September 12th, 2024

Randi Lesnick, co-chair of Jones Day's corporate practice, discusses key deals in her career and issues that AI raises both for law firms and for companies doing deals.

Podcasts

Drinks With The Deal: Gores Group's Mark Stone Talks Twinkies De-SPAC

By Bill Meagher

Published: August 29th, 2024

Mark Stone discusses the private equity firm's approach to the SPAC market and his perspective on recent developments in the sector as well as Gores' very successful de-SPAC of Twinkies maker Hostess Brands.

Activism

Activist Investing Today: Freedman Talks Gildan Red Flags, Darden Similarities

By Ronald Orol

Published: August 23rd, 2024

Olshan shareholder activism practice chair Andrew Freedman offers a postmortem of sorts on why 17 directors in two waves resigned ahead of a Browning West director contest at Canadian clothing company Gildan.

M&A

Harvest Partners Sells Service Express to Warburg Pincus

By Sangita Shah

Published: August 23rd, 2024

Existing management of the data center services provider, led by CEO Ron Alvesteffer, will continue to lead the company.

M&A

Deal Diary: Kirkland, Skadden, Simpson, Cravath Work Mars-Kellanova

By David Marcus

Published: August 15th, 2024

Mars taps Skadden and Simpson Thacher on a $36 billion agreement to buy Kellanova, which uses Kirkland and Goldman, while the target's board turns to Lazard and lending banks JPM and Citi use Cravath.