David Marcus

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.