Senior M&A partner Paul Bird was featured as a guest on The Deal’s “Drinks with The Deal” podcast with reporter and host David Marcus. In the conversation, Paul discusses the importance of dual training in corporate and private equity M&A, the distinctiveness of the Debevoise culture and the firm’s lockstep system and some of the highlight deals from his career. Listen to the podcast.

“Drinks with the Deal”, a podcast series hosted by The Deal senior writer David Marcus, features the legal and financial industries’ most prestigious attorneys as guests and explores the M&A sector’s trends and challenges in each episode.

Mr. Bird’s practice focuses on advising private equity firms, public companies, boards of directors and special committees in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate matters, including cross-border transactions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and takeover defense. He also regularly counsels corporations and their directors on corporate governance and fiduciary duty matters.