The Deal Professor

Congrats to Steven Davidoff, who is now the "Deal Professor" over at the NYT's DealBook.  Davidoff, a prof at Wayne State, has done a terrific job of covering M&A matters at the M&A Law Prof Blog.  At the "Deal Professor" blog, he'll be continuing his coverage of the law of the deal.  As Davidoff notes: "Don't worry, it will be the same blog covering the same topics with the same length of posts and legal analysis, just with the expanded resources of those great N.Y. Times deal reporters, including Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michael de la Merced."  Davidoff will also be making appearances at the M&A Law Prof Blog -- specifically, a Friday "deep-view M&A legal post."

And a hat-tip to Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor of DealBook, for recognizing some great talent.  You may recall Sorkin's glowing profile of Victor Fleischer as another example of his cognizance of the academy.  Corporate law is notable for its overlap between the academy, the judiciary, the media, and the bar.  Delaware chancellors, for example, are the only jurists that I know of with extensive SSRN pages.  Folks like David Marcus at the Deal attend academic conferences, lunch with M&A partners, and make regular trips to Wilmington. With Steven Davidoff's new position at the Times, I'm glad to see this cross-hatching extending even further.