EisnerAmper Podcast
The Private Equity Dealbook
Episodes

Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Private Equity Dealmaking in Pharmaceuticals
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
In this episode of EisnerAmper's Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Kapila Ratnam, Partner with the healthcare fund at NewSpring Capital, a Pennsylvania-based lower middle market private equity firm. She discusses some of the transactions NewSpring has completed in the pharmaceutical space, including Kincell Bio and Aerosafe Global. She walks us through the processes, along with both the opportunities and challenges faced when it came to those transactions. She also discusses the due diligence process on those deals and more.

Wednesday May 14, 2025
Private Equity Dealbook: Outlook for Dealmaking Post-Tariffs
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
In this episode of EisnerAmper's Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Ted Rosen, Partner, M&A and Private Equity, Akerman LLP. Ted shares his outlook for dealmaking for the remainder of this year amid Trump’s tariffs. In addition, he discusses best practices for companies contemplating both buy-side and sell-side transactions, including legal considerations, trends in the due diligence process and more.

Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
PE Dealbook: Dealmaking in High-Potential Service Businesses
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
In this episode of EisnerAmper's Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Kashyap Shah, Managing Director, Public Pension Capital, a middle market private equity firm started by former General Partners of KKR that specializes in acquisitions and accelerations of high potential service businesses. Kashyap discusses some of the transactions PPC has completed and some of the underlying themes that motivated them. He also discusses some challenges he faced when it came to those transactions and finally, touches upon how automation and AI are expected to impact the space over the next decade plus.

Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
In this episode of EisnerAmper's Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, speaks with Andrew Bernstein, Senior Managing Director and Head of Private Equity at Capital Dynamics, a $14 billion independent global asset management firm focused on private assets. Andrew shares his outlook for dealmaking in private equity including opportunities, challenges, how the climate has impacted transactions, the due diligence process for M&A activity and more.

Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Private Equity Investing in Health Care
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
In this episode of EisnerAmper’s Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications speaks with Jacob Atkinson, Managing Partner, United Western Group, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm. He discusses the firm’s transaction with Veridian Healthcare, including the acquisition process, along with challenges, opportunities, navigating the due diligence process and more.

Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Outlook for Private Equity and M&A for the Remainder of 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
In this episode of Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies Snyderman, Director, Publications, speaks with Ariel Fischman, Director at 414 Capital, an investment banking and advisory firm. Ariel shares his outlook for the private equity industry for the remainder of this year and M&A activity amid the current macroeconomic environment, including how the environment has impacted transactions, deal valuations, due diligence and more. He also shares his thoughts on how ESG continues to become more prominent in evaluating companies.

Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Outlook for Private Equity and M&A for Remainder of 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
In this episode of Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Cory Markling, Partner in EisnerAmper’s Transaction Advisory Services Group based in the Minneapolis office. Cory shares his outlook for the private equity industry and M&A activity for the remainder of this year amid the current macroeconomic environment, including how the climate has impacted transactions, deal valuations, due diligence and more. He also shares his thoughts on how ESG continues to become more prominent in evaluating companies.

Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Private Equity Investing in Cloud Computing and Managed IT Services
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
In this episode of Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, speaks with Sean Frank, CIO and Founder of Cloud Equity Group, a private equity firm that invests in, acquires or lends funds to startup, emerging, established or distressed companies in the cloud computing and managed IT services space. Sean shares his outlook for investing in those sectors, how if at all higher interest rates and the strong U.S. dollar has impacted the firm’s ability to finance leveraged equity investments in and bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies, how the economy impacted the financial and operating performance of the portfolio companies and more.

Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Outlook for Private Equity and M&A in 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
In this episode of Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies Snyderman, Director, Publications, speaks with Peter Weinbach, Managing Director, Bentley Associates, a New York-based investment bank for middle market and growth companies. He shares his outlook for the private equity industry this year and M&A activity amid the current macroeconomic environment, including how the environment has impacted transactions, deal valuations, due diligence and more. He also shares his thoughts on how ESG continues to become more prominent in evaluating companies.

Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
In this episode of Private Equity Dealbook, Elana Margulies Snyderman, Director, Publications, speaks with Dan Raynor, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Argentum Capital Partners, a New York-based growth equity firm that partners with bootstrap entrepreneurs focused on B2B software and services companies. He shares his outlook for investing in those sectors, how if at all higher interest rates and the strong U.S. Dollar has impacted the firm’s ability to finance leveraged equity investments in and bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies, how the economy impacted the financial and operating performance of the portfolio companies and more.