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2 weeks ago | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News M&A|Published: April 11th, 2025William Regner talks about legal amendments enacted last month and what he learned from Debevoise's Meredith Brown. William Regner, an M&A partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York, has followed Delaware law closely since he started practice in 1994. This year, that’s meant tracking the amendments to the state’s corporate law code that were proposed on Feb. 17 and became law on March 25.
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1 month ago | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
“You should always look for two mentors in every situation you’re experiencing,” Scott Luftglass said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
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1 month ago | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Mark McMaster has worked on several corporate breakups, which are complicated assignments where advisers can add significant value, he said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast. McMaster, the global head of M&A at Lazard Ltd., worked with American Standard Cos. on a series of deals in 2007. The company sold its bath and kitchen products business to Bain Capital LLC for $1.76 billion and spun off Wabco Holdings Inc. The rest of the company, which was named Trane Inc.
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1 month ago | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Today’s young lawyers are “looking for the same type of professional satisfaction as I was when I was coming out of law school,” Samuel Danon said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
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2 months ago | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News M&A|Published: February 13th, 2025Michael Gerstenzang, managing partner at Cleary Gottlieb, believes generative AI will fundamentally change the practice of law. Lawyers have incorporated a number of technologies into their practices since the 1990s, but generative AI will reshape how lawyers work, Michael Gerstenzang said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
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2 months ago | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News M&A|Published: January 30th, 2025Neil Barr, chair and managing partner of Davis Polk, talks about the logic behind the firm's 2020 change from lockstep compensation, his work for Comcast and why being a tax lawyer helped prepare him to run his firm. As a young partner, Neil Barr was tapped to serve on the compensation committee at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, he said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News M&A|Published: January 16th, 2025Sanjay Murti, an M&A partner at Freshfields in New York, discusses how he approached being an associate, the grueling year before making partner and his decision to lateral to Freshfields from Cravath. As a law student at Columbia University, Sanjay Murti wasn’t familiar with the world of large law firms and didn’t see himself building a career in one of them, he said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News Podcasts|Published: December 5th, 2024Dave Perkins, the co-head of PE at Cravath, talks about being called up from the U.S. Army Reserve to serve in Afghanistan as a young associate and how he approached building a PE practice at his law firm. After spending two years as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, David Perkins was summoned to active duty in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in fall 2007.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News M&A|Published: November 21st, 2024Aaron Suh, an M&A and PE partner at Morgan Lewis and managing partner of the firm's Philadelphia office, discusses how he approached changing firms and cities and the deep influence his father has had on his approach to his career. When he was a child, Aaron Suh said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast, his father was building a business from scratch, which meant frequent travel within the U.S. and to South Korea.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thedeal.com | David Marcus
Back to News Podcasts|Published: November 7th, 2024Joel Friedlander of Friedlander & Gorris talks about how he came to focus on plaintiff-side work in the Delaware courts and the enjoyment he gets from writing about and teaching law as well as practicing it. As a clerk on the Delaware Court of Chancery in 1992 and 1993, Joel Friedlander spent his nights and weekends writing a law review article on Paramount Communications v.
