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Back to News M&A|Published: May 29th, 2025Rob Kindler, an M&A partner at Paul Weiss, discusses his career as an M&A lawyer and banker, doing deals at Morgan Stanley and the importance of lifelong connectivity. Robert Kindler is one of few M&A advisers to have excelled as both a lawyer and a banker, a career he discussed on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.

3 weeks ago | thedeal.com | David Marcus

Back to News M&A|Published: May 15th, 2025Joele Frank discusses how she came to public relations and her approach to growing her own firm. “What makes you think a girl can run a PR firm?” one of the heads of Abernathy MacGregor Frank scoffed when Joele Frank informed him in 1999 that she was leaving the communications firm to launch her own shop. “Well, you did it,” she snapped.

1 month ago | thedeal.com | David Marcus

Managing expectations is a key part of being a proxy solicitor, Bruce Goldfarb said on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast. “A lot of that skill I learned from working in client services businesses my entire life,” he said. “My dad owned a dry cleaning store. People would come in with their dry cleaning and want it back right away. There would be stains that you couldn’t get out of clothing, but you could indicate that you could try to get them out.

1 month ago | thedeal.com | David Marcus

Back to News M&A|Published: April 24th, 2025Kimberly Petillo-Décossard, the co-head of M&A at White & Case, discusses building her career, her decision to change firms and how her husband's willingness to retire from his career as a banker has been pivotal to her success. “My husband has enabled me to have the career that I have,” Kimberly Petillo-Décossard said on this week’s Drinks with The Deal podcast. “My husband has his master’s in aeronautical engineering, he has his M.B.A. from Wharton.

1 month 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.