Becker Private Equity & Business

This episode features Alain Hunkins, a leadership practitioner and author of Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders. Here, he discusses what makes a great leader, advice he has for people in the process of building better organizations, and more.

This webinar discussed means to survive business wise through this crisis and ways to do that and then be prepared for a hopefull rebounds.

5 great panelists including:

Bart Walker, Partner at McGuireWoods

Chad Beste, Principal at BDO USA, LLC

Christian Berger, Senior Advisor at McGuireWoods

Nader Samii, CEO of National Medical Billing Services

Kathleen Quinn, Membership Marketing Director at Northbrook Chamber of Commerce

Moderated by Scott Becker

This episode features Holly Buckley, Co-Chair of HealthCare and Life Sciences at McGuireWoods. Here she offers 5 pieces of business advice for companies during the coronavirus pandemic.

This episode features Kate Hardey, Partner at McGuireWoods and regulatory and transactional lawyer focusing in life sciences and the emerging sector of cannabis law, and Royce DuBiner, an Associate at McGuireWoods with a law practice focused on issues at the intersection of food, drug, cosmetics, and healthcare. Here, they discuss the most prevalent issues in the cannabis industry, how this industry will be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the lack of safety regulation industry products are subject to, and more.

This webinar engaged three great panelists on the issue of how does one stay motivated, focused and resilient in a changing world.

The panelists include:

Jordon Johnson, Director of Data Science at Legion Healthcare Partners

Amy Gardner, Principal at Apochromatik

Rick Kes, Partner at RSM US

Dan Michelson, CEO at Strata Decision Technology

Lotus Buckner, Director of HR and Learning at Northwest Community Healthcare

Scott Becker moderated the discussion.

This webinar featured four experts discussing the growth of interest from private equity in all types of companies, the valuations paid in transactions, what impacts valuations, deal terms, deal processes and more. They also do a deep dive into the effects of Coronavirus on Private Equity.

A focus was on private equity engagement in transactions.

The panelists include:

Melissa Szabad: Partner at McGuireWoods

Samiksha Gupta: Principle at MERU

Sean McLoughlin: Vice President at MERU

Holly Buckley: Partner at McGuireWoods

Bart Walker: Partner at McGuireWoods

The panel was moderated by Scott Becker

Over the past few years, the largest companies and the largest funds have increasingly taken a larger share of many different types of markets. In some ways it feels like an acceleration of the 80/20 rule. This can create a challenging environment for mid-size companies and firms.

The four panelists are: Jamie Sabat, John Ninkovich, Amy Hesser, Emily Lonigro, and David Schwalb.

This webinar discussed issues such as:

1. where are smaller and mid-size firms and companies still thriving

2. what are the biggest trends facing businesses

3. where do opportunity exist

4. how should one evaluate business opportunities

5. what's the best advice on executing on business opportunities

This webinar had four great panelists and was moderated by Scott Becker.

This episode features John Leja, the Founder and CEO of multiple cannabis companies such as NuSierra Holdings and iVIK Holdings Ltd. He is also a former lawyer and graduate of Cornell Law.  Here he discusses how he got started in the business, trends in the industry, and success stories.

This podcast features GreenRx-ID CEO Jeff Kriozere. Jeff is the CEO of a company that provides bar coding solutions to the cannabis industry. In this far ranging discussion, he discusses a variety of issues relating to the evolving cannabis industry.   He is really smart and discusses business strategies and ideas providing insight into how his company has navigated the cannabis industry.

This podcast features Associat General Counsel at Eaze, David Adams. David is an extremely gifted person who discusses the evolution of the cannabis industry and his firms role in it. It's amazing to listen to Davids perspective.