Our Team
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Management
Michael is the content director and managing editor at The Deal overseeing content strategy and company-wide coverage. He is the author of The Daily Deal newsletter.
Prior to his current role, Michael was the assignments editor for The Deal and its former parent, TheStreet Inc. Michael also has held roles as senior reporter, researcher and associate editor and covered topics including financial services, sports and media and leisure.
Michael began his career at The Hour Publishing Co., in Norwalk, Conn., as a small business reporter. He graduated from the University of Connecticut.
Tom Terrarosa is the Assistant Managing Editor overseeing The Deal’s sector team and supporting staff. Previously Tom was a senior editor covering the energy and industrial sectors, focusing on middle market M&A and private equity. Tom also helped produce the M&A Tipsheet and Middle Market Insider weekly newsletters and the Auctions and M&A Opportunities databases. Tom was previously a digital producer with Gannett Co., where he edited and optimized content for the company’s New Jersey news outlets. He also has worked as a local news reporter, copy editor and photographer with The Dominion Post in Morgantown, W.Va.
Insights and Analysis
Alex Eichenstein is a reporter covering healthcare at The Deal. After graduating from Columbia Journalism School in 2023, she worked as a reporting intern at Honolulu Civil Beat, reporting on water access issues and the Maui wildfires.
David Elman is a senior editor covering bankruptcy filings, court hearings, controversies, debtor-in-possession loans and exits as well as out-of-court restructuring situations. David also edits auction, M&A, activist and private equity articles and produces the weekly Restructuring Insider newsletter. Before joining The Deal in 2003 as a copy editor, David held the same role at Institutional Investor (now a sister publication of The Deal) and the Institute of Management Accountants’ Strategic Finance and Management Accounting Quarterly.
Jean Haggerty is a senior reporter covering shareholder activism. Prior to joining The Deal, she worked as an editor covering climate and agriculture at Gro Intelligence and as a reporter covering derivatives and risk management for International Financing Review.
David Hatch is a senior reporter covering antitrust in Washington, focusing on merger enforcement, competition law and policy. His specialties include technology and media transactions, cross-border M&A and national security reviews. David previously was a senior technology reporter with Acuris, where he contributed to Dealreporter and other business newswires. He also was a technology correspondent with National Journal and covered the television industry for Crain Communications. David’s publishing credits include U.S. News & World Report and Governing.
Kylie Kirschner is a reporter covering the consumer sector at The Deal. She has previously worked at Business Insider, Forbes, and Mergermarket, and received her Master’s in journalism and international relations from New York University, for which she reported on the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on Malaysian indigenous communities.
David Marcus is a senior writer focusing on legal issues raised by corporate transactions. David writes about the structure of merger agreements, Delaware law cases and developments and cross-border M&A. He has been a reporter at The Deal since its launch in 1999 and the senior writer on Corporate Control Alert — The Deal’s journal of legal and financial trends in dealmaking — since 1997. A 1992 graduate of Princeton University and a 1996 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, he also writes about wine for The Deal.
Chris Nolter is a senior writer focusing on telecom, media and technology. His coverage ranges from profiles of key bankers and dealmakers to the inner workings of complex deals, and he is often the first in the industry to report on M&A activity and private equity. Before joining The Deal, Chris published stories with FinanacialTimes.com, RollingStone.com, The New York Times Magazine and Columbia Journalism Review. He was an editor at Museum of the Moving Image and produced live news broadcasts for CNN Financial Network.
Ronald Orol leads coverage of activist hedge fund managers, a high-profile group of corporate investors who press for blockbuster deals and were the subject of his book “Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World.” Ron produces the Activist Daily and Activist Weekly briefings, which offer exclusives, trend pieces and breaking analysis about insurgent investors and their M&A efforts. Ron also authored “Corporate Governance in the Era of Activism,” a digital handbook for CNBC’s Jim Cramer. He previously worked as a financial regulation and activism reporter at MarketWatch and Dow Jones Newswires.
Conner Searfoss is a reporter covering industrials and business services. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in international relations.
Nikitha covers the consumer services, franchising and retail industry for The Deal with a focus on middle market private equity.
She previously worked as a reporter at Bloomberg News and Cannabis Wire. Earlier, she was a freelance journalist in India covering agricultural policy and development.
Sam Weisberg is a reporter covering sectors including industrials. He previously worked at Mergermarket for 18 years as a senior reporter, covering various industrials beats such as transport/logistics, automation, machinery, environmental services, automotive manufacturing and retail and aerospace, as well as housing products, residential and commercial landscaping and other consumer industries.