Winston & Strawn LLP

Co-Executive Chairmen: Jeffrey Kessler & Dan Webb

Chair: Thomas Fitzgerald

Vice Chair: Michael Elkin

Number of partners: 25 (Europe)

Number of lawyers: 55 (Europe)

Languages: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian

Firm Overview

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 975+ lawyers in 15 offices across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm’s dedication and emphasis on client service has helped establish long-term relationships with leading companies throughout the world. The firm draws upon the particular experience of its global teams to provide high-quality legal advice across a variety of sectors.

Main Areas of Practice

Banking & Finance

Corporate/M&A

Healthcare

Private Equity

Lending

EU Antitrust/Competition

Employment

International Arbitration Litigation

Tax

Corporate/M&A

Winston & Strawn's corporate and M&A team advises on transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity and represents an exceptionally diverse client base in both large and mid-sized markets. It also assists private and public clients on strategic corporate finance issues, including debt and equity capital market transactions. The firm's experience supports and enhances transactions, with a focus on transaction management and execution, structuring and related issues, including post-acquisition integration and compliance matters.

Contact: Jérôme Herbet

Tel: +33 1 53 64 82 04

Email: [email protected]

Employment Practice

The labour and employment team advises and assists French and international clients, in all areas of French employment law, by crafting operational and customised solutions.

Contact: Virgile Puyau

Tel: +33 53 64 81 93

Email: [email protected]

Healthcare/Life sciences

Winston has one of the leading healthcare/life sciences teams in the market in terms of number of matters handled and turnover generated. With 30years of dedicated sector-specific experience, our fully integrated team draws on several practice areas: regulatory (shareholding of companies exercising in the healthcare sector, exercise of healthcare sector activities, status of internal and external practitioners, biotech, pharmaceutical, etc.), antitrust/competition, litigation, corporate (specialised mergers and acquisitions and private equity), financing, and labour and tax issues.

Contact: Gilles Bigot / Julie Vern

Tel: +33 1 53 64 82 27

Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

International Arbitration

Winston & Strawn's leading international arbitration practice is a specialised, autonomous and globally integrated group with extensive experience in conducting commercial and investor-State arbitrations (as well as ad hoc arbitrations) under the rules of all major international arbitration institutions.

Contact: Maria Kostytska

Tel: +33 1 53 64 82 44

Email: [email protected]

Lending

Winston & Strawn operates across the full life cycle of lending transactions, including syndications, sub-participants, acquisitions and financings of individual assets and portfolios, waivers and modifications and loan restructuring. The firm focuses its practice on complex cross-border corporate and financing transactions and international restructurings. It represents domestic and international commercial and investment banks, debt funds, private equity sponsors, public and private companies and private equity portfolio companies in their financings.

Contact: Mounir Letayf

Tel: +33 1 53 64 81 98

Email: [email protected]

Litigation

Winston is a dispute resolution powerhouse, routinely handling some of the most critical disputes faced by companies, governments, and individuals.

The firm's team has expertise in managing large-scale cross-border cases and it has been involved in some of the most innovative litigation before the French courts in the commercial field. Examples range from injunctions to protect confidential information to litigation to protect trademarks, complex tax disputes, shareholder disputes and accounting disputes.

Contact: Mathilde Lefranc-Barthe / Gilles Bigot

Tel: +33 1 53 64 82

Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Private Equity

Winston & Strawn advises investment funds, hedge funds, family offices, private debt funds and financial institutions on their small and mid-cap transactions. From target identification to exit, the firm advises its clients on tax structuring, due diligence, negotiation, and documentation of their private equity transactions, including restructuring. The team is part of the firm's global private equity group and regularly handles domestic and cross-border transactions.

Contact: Nicola Di Giovanni

Tel: +33 1 53 64 81 32

Email: [email protected]

Tax

Winston & Strawn's Paris tax team regularly advises on a wide range of French, European and international tax issues, including the structuring of private equity and M&A transactions, group reorganisations, financing issues and tax issues related to profit sharing agreements and management package.

Contact: Edouard De Rancher

Tel: +33 6 09 35 35 15

Email: [email protected]