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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.

M&A

Drinks With The Deal: Linklaters' Casey Talks Cross-Border M&A

By David Marcus

Published: August 15th, 2024

In the most recent episode of Drinks With The Deal, Linklaters global chairman of corporate George Casey discusses a 30-year career centered on cross-border M&A.

Private Cos.

Reliant Boosts Residential Parking Management Services

By Nikitha Sattiraju

Published: August 14th, 2024

The founder-owned parking management platform is adding more features to further monetize parking spaces and integrating its software with other property services as investors circle the company amid rising interest in the sector.

Insights & Analysis

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Popping the AI Hyperbole Bubble

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

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

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

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

Harvest Partners Sells Service Express to Warburg Pincus

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

Drinks With The Deal: Linklaters' Casey Talks Cross-Border M&A

Reliant Boosts Residential Parking Management Services

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