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Ethan Klingsberg, head of U.S. corporate and M&A at Freshfields, discussed the pressures that increased antitrust scrutiny has put on dealmaking and how companies can respond during the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast. 

Lovell Minnick's Steve Pierson says smaller, more nimble financial tech companies have driven large financial institutions to hire, acquire or partner with them to boost growth and innovation in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.

Cleary Gottlieb's Jim Langston discussed how companies are responding to more vigorous antitrust enforcement during the latest Drinks With The Deal podcast. 

Rene Stewart, Co-head of Vista Equity Partners’ Endeavor Fund, talks about how the fund finds high quality businesses, navigates frothy markets and helps scale businesses through operational support in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.

On this week’s Fresh Start podcast, UC Hastings Law professor Jared Ellias discusses his new paper, which quantifies a trend gaining increasing attention, the increase in corporate directors with bankruptcy experience on the boards of companies entering Chapter 11.

M&A lawyer Alec Dawson, of Morgan Lewis, discusses the opportunities and challenges in the SPAC market and the difficulties of doing deals remotely on this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Kilometre Music Group CEO Michael McCarty and Apex Fund Services' John Bohan say PE firms remain keen on acquiring music royalties, with an eye on subscription revenue from music streaming services in the latest episode of the Behind The Buyouts podcast.

Caley Horan, a history professor at MIT, and Dan Bouk, who teaches at Colgate, discussed their work on the history of life insurance in the U.S. 20th century and its implications for today on the latest episode of the podcast. 

Vyacheslav Fos, a professor in Boston College's finance department, discussed his new paper on shareholder record dates and findings that corporations can disclose such dates in ways that leave retail investors and some sophisticated shareholders in the dark.

Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago professor and author of the new book 'Ages of American Capitalism,' discussed the influence of the 2008 financial crisis on his work, the role of the factory in the American imagination, Herman Melville's insight into American economic life and his love for the city of Houston on this week's Drinks With The Deal podcast.