“Deal Us In” is dropped at you by McGuireWoods. “Deal Us In” promotes the development of girls in non-public fairness and finance by way of conversations with girls leaders and rising stars within the non-public fairness and finance area. These conversations present each insights and sensible takeaways to tell your deal work and improve the tradition of your group. To submit matters for dialogue, please e mail [email protected].
Hosts: Ann Terrell Dorsett, Kelsey Hitchcock, Phyllis Younger, and Casey J. Nelson
Movies are posted on YouTube and social media channels. Podcasts additionally can be found on iTunes and Spotify.
Episode 33: July 9, 2024
What do you get whenever you cross {an electrical} engineering diploma with an MBA? An progressive and profitable fund supervisor.
On this episode of Deal Us In, one-of-a-kind enterprise capital agency supervisor SC Moatti of Mighty Capital joins McGuireWoods associate and host Kelsey Hitchcock to debate how SC rigorously selects her funding alternatives and analyzes rising challenges and points in AI know-how. Additionally they discuss challenges girls face in non-public fairness and finance.
Episode 32: Could 10, 2024
Don’t be deferential when you ought to be extra assured. “Technical skills give you the confidence to speak up and take a seat at the table,” says Amy Weisman.
On this episode of Deal Us In, host and McGuireWoods associate Penny Zacharias is joined by mother-daughter duo Amy Weisman, managing director of enterprise improvement at Sterling Funding Companions, and Julia Weisman, account supervisor at Bloomberg LP.
In a candid dialog, Amy, an completed non-public fairness skilled, and Julia, a rising star in finance, delve into their experiences within the finance sector. They provide insights into overcoming imposter syndrome, the ability of networking and the significance of placing a stability between work and private life. Amy underscores the worth of networking for profession development, highlighting Exponent Ladies, the group she based for girls in non-public fairness, whereas Julia emphasizes the worth of mentorship and the position it has performed in her profession at Bloomberg. This episode offers important steering for girls professionals navigating their careers in non-public fairness and finance.
Episode 31: April 29, 2024
The office has modified in recent times, making preparations reminiscent of working from house extra frequent. Nonetheless, navigating a profession path whereas elevating a household can nonetheless be difficult, particularly within the high-powered monetary {industry}.
On this episode of Deal Us In, McGuireWoods associate and host Kelsey Hitchcock welcomes visitor Laura Redinger, principal and enterprise improvement chief at Basis Funding Companions, a personal fairness agency centered on buying area of interest producers, high-value added distributors, outsourced enterprise service suppliers and software program builders.
Tune in to listen to Laura share how she made the transition from industrial banking to non-public fairness and balanced being a working mother in a male-dominated area. Laura additionally discusses classes she realized alongside the way in which and presents recommendation to girls aspiring to management roles in PE, significantly these going through profession development obstacles.
Episode 30: March 25, 2024
If the projected skilled future doesn’t enchantment, contemplate pivoting your technique or profession aspirations. On this episode of Deal Us In, McGuireWoods counsel Ann Dorsett welcomes visitor Meredith Carter, president and CEO of Edge Capital, a household office-backed specialty finance firm exterior of Philadelphia centered on offering asset-based loans to lower-middle-market firms.
Learn the way Meredith acquired began in asset-based lending and the way she efficiently transitioned from a profession in company regulation to area of interest specialty finance. Meredith additionally shares methods for serving to girls advance of their organizations and recommendation for girls who aspire to have a management position.
Episode 29: March 11, 2024
To grasp how and why individuals succeed, it’s simply as essential to have a look at what they didn’t do, as it’s to have a look at what they did.
On this episode of Deal Us In, McGuireWoods affiliate Xaviera Webb is joined by visitor Kristin Gunther, associate at Revolution Progress, a enterprise agency primarily based in Washington, D.C. With greater than 15 years of expertise in non-public fairness, finance and operations, Kristin shares her journey, her struggles and her recommendation for girls looking for to attain success within the finance {industry}.
Tune in to listen to Xaviera and Kristin focus on juggling work and household commitments, the trade-offs of being a working mother, and coping with “mom guilt.” Additionally they speak concerning the character traits which have enabled Kristin to achieve the high-intensity worlds of personal fairness and enterprise capital, the methods Kristin finds simplest in managing competing priorities, and the precise challenges distinctive to girls in a aggressive office.
Episode 28: February 23, 2024
Relying on the place you’re employed, monetary establishments can have a churn-and-burn environment. How does this have an effect on work-life stability, significantly for aspiring girls enterprise leaders? Though earlier generations overcame boundaries to girls in management, there’s at all times work to be carried out.
On this episode of Deal Us In, host and McGuireWoods associate Phyllis Younger is joined by visitor Hannah Jordana, senior vice chairman of economic and industrial lending at Cadence Financial institution, to debate girls within the finance {industry}. Tune in to listen to Hannah’s journey and expertise in non-public fairness and finance and the way she acquired concerned in deal-making. Hannah and Phyllis additionally focus on obstacles girls face in enterprise, how you can deal with these challenges, and methods organizations can assist and empower girls to take management roles in deal execution and decision-making.
Episode 27: February 6, 2024
Most of us have skilled imposter syndrome. However whenever you’re the one lady of coloration in a predominantly white, male-dominated area, it could possibly really feel such as you’re taking pictures above your weight.
On this episode of Deal Us In, McGuireWoods affiliate Xaviera Webb talks to Alyssa Daniel, a personal fairness affiliate with PNC Mezzanine Capital, about Alyssa’s journey into non-public fairness, together with among the challenges she confronted and the way she overcame them. They focus on the position of mentorship, the necessity to advocate for your self and the significance of creating connections. Alyssa additionally shares some recommendation for aspiring non-public fairness professionals.
Episode 26: October 18, 2023
On this episode of Deal Us In, host Xaviera Webb, an affiliate at McGuireWoods, is joined by Tamika Tyson, co-founder of TGC Impression. They focus on entry to capital development, booming enterprise alternatives within the American South, and the way different Black girls and ladies of coloration can break into the non-public fairness sector — and keep there.
For Tamika Tyson, problem-solving is not only her best energy, but in addition the drive that drove her to co-found her personal non-public fairness agency, TGC Impression. Throughout her greater than 25 years of expertise in danger administration and construction, what Tamika heard repeatedly have been talks of a capital concern. She determined to take issues into her personal fingers.
“Really we said, ‘Hey, why don’t we solve that problem by actually putting capital to work?’ So TGC was founded to address the access to capital gap for women and people of color,” explains Tamika.
Episode 25: June 22, 2023
On this episode of Deal Us In, host Rebecca Rheney, an affiliate at McGuireWoods, talks to Aneesha Raghunathan, vice chairman at Susquehanna Progress Fairness. Aneesha has {industry} experience throughout fintech and healthcare and at present focuses on knowledge and enterprise software program. Her present firms embrace Sievo, ZenQMS, LiveBarn, MediSpend, and extra.
As a lady of coloration, Aneesha talks candidly concerning the worth of range within the non-public fairness sector and the benefits it brings to firms and their potential offers. She additionally presents listeners an inspiring mixture of invaluable insights and sensible recommendation on beating imposter syndrome, thriving within the non-public fairness sector, studying the “nonglamorous” fundamentals and talking up in conferences.
Episode 24: Could 18, 2023
On this episode of Deal Us In, hosts Phyllis Younger, Ann Dorsett and Kelsey Hitchcock welcome Xaviera Webb and Rebecca Rheney to the podcast. Of their first episode, Xaviera and Rebecca flip the script, asking the three hosts about their very own careers and experiences as girls within the non-public fairness and finance area. Phyllis, Ann and Kelsey additionally focus on why range in regulation is significant and the way to make sure girls succeed within the authorized career.
Episode 23: March 16, 2023
Deal Us In host Phyllis Younger welcomes LaDawn Townsend, founder and CEO of VOS Group, to debate management expertise. LaDawn has spent greater than 9 years teaching CEOs and boards on how you can construct the subsequent era of influential and genuine leaders. All through the episode, LaDawn shares real-life examples and conditions which have formed how she approaches management coaching to nurture organizations and develop sturdy leaders.
Episode 22: January 31, 2023
Are you making deal resolutions for the New 12 months? On this episode of Deal Us In, we welcome again McGuireWoods companions Jodie Herrmann Lawson and Susan Rodriguez to share their deal resolutions for 2023 with host Kelsey Hitchcock. Kelsey, Jodie and Susan discover key factors companies ought to contemplate as they strategy offers this 12 months, together with extra upfront scrutiny of I-9s, when to think about indemnification provisions and what to do if the vendor has an ongoing audit.
Episode 21: October 28, 2022
On this episode of Deal Us In, we welcome Renny Sie as she joins host Kelsey Hitchcock to debate her position as vice chairman of enterprise improvement and investor relations at Boyne Capital and the nontraditional observe that introduced her there. Kelsey and Renny discover why illustration, self-discipline and emotional intelligence are so essential and why working in acquisitions is a relationship enterprise over a monetary {industry}.
Episode 20: August 31, 2022
So many people have that internal voice in our heads — the one telling us we’re imposters, that we’re not minimize out for this, that we’ll by no means be capable of catch as much as the boys in our {industry}. That voice is not any stranger to girls in investing, together with Avante Capital Companions principal* Amanda Kim. She began her profession in a finance position at Goldman Sachs earlier than making use of for a place as affiliate at Avante.
Tune in with host Ann Terrell Dorsett as Amanda shares what it’s prefer to work in a totally women-led firm and what it means to foster a various and welcoming office. Amanda additionally tells us why range is essential, and presents her finest ideas for guaranteeing profitable offers.
*On the time of this recording, Amanda Kim held the place of vice chairman at Avante Capital Companions.
Episode 19: Could 31, 2022
On this episode of Deal Us In, Amanda Verner Thompson and Vasanta Pundarika be part of McGuireWoods’ Kelsey Hitchcock to debate their now 16-year-long profession collectively in funding banking. After working on the similar healthcare funding banking agency by way of a number of acquisitions, the pair joined Matrix Capital Markets Group the place they co-lead its Healthcare Funding Banking Group.
Be a part of Kelsey, Amanda and Vasanta as they focus on adaptation, methods for profitable offers and what aspiring girls ought to know concerning the funding banking area.
Episode 18: April 28, 2022
On this episode of Deal Us In, Falfurrias Capital Companions vice chairman Katie-Rose Higgins joins host Ann Terrell Dorsett to share what it’s prefer to be on the vice chairman degree engaged on offers in M&A. From the intensive calls for of due diligence to post-close technique classes with CEOs and boards of administrators, Katie-Rose presents a holistic view of the numerous aspects of labor concerned with non-public fairness.
Katie-Rose and Ann additionally gave recommendation on recruiting various candidates and mentioned how companies can assist workforce members construct their networks and really feel included and supported all through their careers.
Episode 17: February 28, 2022
With 2021 within the metaphorical rearview mirror, hosts Ann Dorsett, Kelsey Hitchcock and Phyllis Younger replicate on prime traits and the implications for the longer term. Tune in as they focus on debt financing developments, curiosity in new merchandise, the RWI squeeze and challenges in buy agreements. Study which traits they assume will have an effect in 2022, and the teachings they imagine needs to be utilized this 12 months.
Episode 16: January 23, 2022
Though girls have made strides within the non-public fairness {industry}, they’re nonetheless a minority in workplaces dominated by males. On this episode, Melissa Mounce Mithal, GTCR’s managing director of management, expertise and variety, joins host Ann Terrell Dorsett to share her perspective on the impression and expertise of girls within the {industry}, together with among the obstacles standing towards them. Later within the episode, Melissa shares how working remotely expanded her entry to executives but created challenges for mentorship. Hear how girls professionals can join just about with leaders within the non-public fairness {industry}.
Episode 15: December 20, 2021
Be a part of host Ariail Barker and licensed marriage and household therapist Blair Bishop in a particular episode on how girls can tune in to their wants and study to ask for assist as they navigate growing calls for at work and at house. Hear about giving your self permission to “mess up and admit it,” what it’s to be human at work, and the way accepting a patriarchal construction can assist you make adjustments in areas you may management whereas letting go of the remainder.
Episode 14: October 27, 2021
If you’re a dealmaker, there’s at all times a danger of getting caught in an advanced arbitration if issues go awry. Points can sneak up on you. On this Halloween episode of Deal Us In, be part of host Kelsey Hitchcock and McGuireWoods companions Jodie Herrmann Lawson and Susan Rodriguez as they information you thru the haunted maze of enterprise disputes, arbitrations and Type I-9 nightmares.
Tune in to this spooky particular to seek out out what skeletons might lurk within the closet. With the proper of authorized assist, you may unmask the boogeyman, confront the ghosts and discover it isn’t so scary in spite of everything
Episode 13: October 20, 2021
To completely domesticate the sorts of enterprise relationships that produce profitable transactions, non-public fairness companies flip to expertise to assist supply essentially the most fruitful offers. Be a part of host Ariail Barker and and one such expertise, Palladium Fairness Companions’ director of enterprise improvement Meahgan O’Grady, as they focus on discovering the fitting instruments for networking, advocating for your self and effectuating change from inside. Hear about Meaghan’s path to non-public fairness, viewing profession like a layer cake, and the way everybody, even introverts, could make connections.
Episode 12: July 30, 2021
Folks don’t need to return to working within the workplace the identical manner they used to, and this shift in attitudes means new concerns for companies. On this episode of Deal Us In, McGuireWoods legal professionals Carolyn Trenda and Daybreak Cutlan Stetter, who give attention to worker advantages and common employment regulation, respectively, be part of host Kelsey Hitchcock to proceed their two-part dialog concerning the impacts of the pandemic on the office, significantly for girls.
They focus on the challenges offered by {a partially} distant workforce and how you can accommodate workers who might want flexibility. Additionally they discuss how conventional advantages packages are altering to handle a spread of wants. They conclude their dialogue by sharing their private experiences and ideas on what girls can do to attain skilled success.
Episode 11: June 30, 2021
Previously 12 months, employers have needed to deal with a large number of latest labor and employment points. Partly one in all a two-part interview, host Kelsey Hitchcock is joined by McGuireWoods legal professionals Carolyn Trenda and Daybreak Cutlan Stetter, who give attention to worker advantages and common employment regulation, respectively, to debate the kinds of questions their shoppers are asking.
They discover the pandemic’s impression on employment advantages, the challenges caregivers face, and the ins and outs of COVID-19 laws. Additionally they deal with the results on industries that required workers to work in particular person.
Episode 10: Could 28, 2021
Ladies of coloration face challenges within the male-dominated fields of regulation and personal fairness, however in case you attempt and stay centered, you will be profitable. On this episode, hosts Phyllis Younger and Kelsey Hitchcock are joined by McGuireWoods legal professionals, Mirlande Telfort and Dami Oguntade. Mirlande and Dami share how they’ve made essentially the most of their expertise and backgrounds using the ability of sturdy girls mentors and position fashions to maintain transferring ahead. They provide perspective and encouragement concluding with the significance of generally sitting again to chill out and admire the journey.
Episode 9: March 17, 2021
Networking occasions will be difficult at the very best of occasions, however particularly whenever you’re the one lady within the room. Partly I of this collection, host Ariail Barker is joined by Northstar Managing Director Rebekah Elliott. They focus on what it takes to develop your presence relatively than shrink right into a nook to keep away from standing out at networking occasions comprising largely males. They provide recommendations on constructing rapport, projecting confidence and steering the dialog. Discover ways to navigate an occasion to perform your objectives and stay engaged whereas avoiding landmines.
Episode 8: February 24, 2021
Partly II of our installment impressed by the one hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth Modification, hosts Ann Terrell Dorsett, Kelsey Hitchcock and Phyllis Younger proceed their dialog on the beneficial properties made by girls within the authorized {industry} and the hurdles they face. They spotlight the significance of girls management roles, improved gender range and the worth of supporting efforts that assist create a constructive setting to stability profession and household. They acknowledge the statistics displaying progress has been made, however statistics additionally present the climb for girls continues.
Episode 7: January 28, 2021
In an episode impressed by the latest one hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth modification, hosts Ann Terrell Dorsett, Kelsey Hitchcock and Phyllis Younger step by way of historical past and summarize key laws within the nationwide motion for girls’s rights. They share statistics on gender wage hole, bias and the impression of COVID-19, amongst different matters. They discover the beneficial properties made by girls within the authorized {industry} and deal with the boundaries for girls in regulation acknowledging that whereas girls within the office have come a good distance, there may be nonetheless an extended strategy to go.
Episode 6: October 29, 2020
Be a part of host Kelsey Hitchcock and McGuireWoods companions Susan Rodriguez and Jodie Herrmann Lawson for a particular Halloween episode of tales and takeaways on state regulation concerns for purchase/promote transactions, monster definitions creeping into your deal paperwork and a few hair-raising spectres arising from overly broad launch language. You’ll expertise unnerving accounts of Type I-9 and associated Paycheck Safety Program points. Heed these terrifying tales from attorneys who noticed the aftermath firsthand to keep away from comparable horrors in your offers.
Episode 5: August 19, 2020
As extra girls occupy the non-public fairness and funding banking areas of the finance {industry}, it turns into crucial for firms to strengthen insurance policies which are distinctive to girls who want to begin a household whereas pursuing a profession.
In episode 5 of Deal Us In, host Ariail Barker speaks with Essential Avenue Capital Business Improvement and Advertising and marketing Supervisor Molly White about maternity depart insurance policies within the finance {industry}. They stress the significance of companies, no matter measurement, being conscious of maternity laws and inspecting whether or not their present insurance policies are appropriately accommodating and versatile for workers.
Episode 4: July 15, 2020
Many ladies are pursuing careers in beforehand male-dominated professions, together with extremely specialised arenas like forensic accounting in M&A transactions. Extra feminine voices are becoming a member of the desk and establishing themselves in management positions. On this episode of Deal Us In, host Kelsey Hitchcock is joined by Christen Morand, a associate and licensed public accountant in Ernst & Younger’s Forensic & Integrity Providers observe. The dialogue examines how the tradition for girls has advanced over the previous 10 years, significantly in advanced industries reminiscent of M&A. Christen shares her expertise as an accounting arbitrator, a place traditionally held by males.
Episode 3: June 8, 2020
Whereas notable gaps stay, the local weather for girls within the office is constantly bettering. In Episode 3, McGuireWoods’ Phyllis Younger speaks with Yasmin Huebinger, Senior Vice President with Capital One. Yasmin discusses her private experiences as a profession lady and a frontrunner in her establishment. She shares a lot of elements which have contributed to her success, together with cultivating the power to stay calm and centered even in occasions of excessive stress. Yasmin additionally offers pointed recommendation to these dedicated to growing the quantity and visibility of girls of their companies.
Episode 2: Could 19, 2020
Amber Walsh, a McGuireWoods associate and co-leader of its WPEF initiative, discusses dealmaking remotely together with invaluable ideas for these much less accustomed to distant work, cultivating self-discipline and staying linked to colleagues and shoppers. Amber additionally discusses danger administration, an increasing market as results of the pandemic.
Episode 1: Apr 28, 2020
Inaugural episode that includes hosts Ann Terrell Dorsett, Kelsey Hitchcock, Phyllis Younger and Ariail Barker discussing what introduced them to non-public fairness and finance; what it’s to be a transactional lawyer and the vital roles girls are occupying within the {industry}. Episode 1 concludes with recommendation they’d give their youthful selves together with taking dangers, elevating points and self-trust.
The Ladies in Personal Fairness & Finance Initiative was based by McGuireWoods and promotes the development of girls in non-public fairness and lending by way of a collection of industry-focused occasions that present substantive instructional and networking alternatives. By leveraging our longtime give attention to range points inside the regulation agency setting and lengthening it to funding funds, banks and different lenders, we offer a networking platform for girls to lift their profiles, share thought management, increase enterprise alternatives and, most significantly, assist the {industry} proceed to make progress.
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