Winston & Strawn LLP

Chairman: Stephen D'Amore

Firm Leadership: Dan Webb (Co-Executive Chairman), Jeffrey Kessler (Co-Executive Chairman), Cardelle Spangler (Managing Partner – Internal Affairs), Eva Davis (Managing Partner – External Affairs), Peter Crowther (Managing Partner – International Affairs), Dom DeChiara (Chief Strategic Officer), Linda Coberly and Tom Melsheimer (Co-Chairs of the Litigation Department), Timothy Kincaid and Brad Vaiana (Co-Chairs of the Transactions Department)

International Offices: Belgium (Brussels), China (Shanghai), France (Paris), Hong Kong (Central), UK (London)

Languages: Cantonese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Firm Overview: 

Throughout its more than 170-year history, Winston & Strawn LLP has handled many significant, high-profile matters for its clients – from patent litigation to cross-border mergers and from energy transactions to complex commercial disputes. The firm has grown through a series of mergers, office openings, and lateral hires that have resulted in a global law firm with more than 975 attorneys across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm has 15 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Additionally, the firm has significant resources devoted to clients and matters in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Antitrust/Competition

Corporate & Finance

Dispute Resolution & Litigation

eDiscovery & Information Governance

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Energy & Infrastructure

Environmental

Government Investigations, Enforcement & Compliance

Health Care

Intellectual Property

International Arbitration

Labour & Employment Relations

Latin America

Maritime & Admiralty

Project Finance

Real Estate

Tax

Trust & Estates

Antitrust/Competition: 

Winston’s global antitrust/competition attorneys are proud to offer a complete range of services, including advice and representation related to all aspects of global cartel defence, civil and criminal litigation, government investigations, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory counselling and compliance.

Contact: Eva Cole

Tel: +1 212 294 4609

Email: ewcole@winston.com

Contact: James Herbison

Tel: +1 312 558 5909

Email: jherbiso@winston.com

Contact: Peter Crowther

Tel: +44 20 7011 8750

Email: pcrowther@winston.com

Corporate & Finance:  

Winston’s global corporate and finance practice provides securities and M&A services to multinational companies and investment banks. The firm’s private equity work encompasses capital raising, investment and divestiture. Winston also represents clients in capital markets, corporate lending, project finance, securitisations, lease finance and derivatives transactions and provides restructuring and insolvency advice.

Contact: Mats Carlston

Tel: +1 212 294 6696

Email: mcarlston@winston.com

Contact: Michael Mullins

Tel: +1 312 558 7568

Email: mmullins@winston.com

Dispute Resolution & Litigation:  

Winston litigators represent clients in civil and commercial litigation, as well as alternative dispute resolution. The firm has tried major trials in every significant venue and represented clients with high-profile government investigations and enforcement actions. The firm has locally qualified commercial litigators around the world.

Contact: Linda Coberly

Tel: +1 312 558 8768

Email: lcoberly@winston.com

Contact: Tom Melsheimer

Tel: +1 214 453 6401

Email: tmelsheimer@winston.com

eDiscovery & Information Governance 

Winston & Strawn’s eDiscovery and Information Governance Group is one of the largest and most experienced in the United States. Our firm has built a full-service consulting practice providing services to our clients and case teams in the complex areas of e-discovery and information governance both within the United States and around the world.

Contact: John Rosenthal

Tel: +1 202 282 8785

Email: jrosenthal@winston.com

Energy & Infrastructure:  

Winston’s 80+ energy and infrastructure lawyers represent a wide range of players in the power, oil and gas, and infrastructure (including PPP) sectors. Our integrated platform covers every aspect of transactions—whether it involves a wind farm, a major interstate/thruway, oilfield services technologies, or saltwater disposal system; and a full suite of disputes, including contract disputes, patent infringement fights, trade secrets investigations, or international arbitration.

Contact: Mike Pikiel

Tel: +1 212 294 6654

Email: mpikiel@winston.com

Contact: Mike Blankenship

Tel: +1 713 651 2678

Email: mblankenship@winston.com

Intellectual Property:  

The firm’s IP practice includes patent, copyright, trademark and advertising litigation worldwide. In addition, Winston lawyers handle risk assessment, portfolio management, and prosecution of applications for patents, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as supervision of global IP enforcement initiatives.

Contact: David Enzminger

Tel: +1 650 858 6580

Email: denzminger@winston.com

Contact: Jennifer Golinveaux

Tel: +1 415 591 1506

Email: jgolinveaux@winston.com

Contact: Nimalka Wickramasekera

Tel: +1 213 615 1819

Email: nwickramasekera@winston.com

International Arbitration:  

Winston has one of the most recognised international arbitration practices in the world. Its attorneys have participated in international arbitration proceedings under all of the major international arbitration rules. Winston matters have ranged from some of the largest and most complex multi-jurisdictional disputes in the world, to mid-sized, straightforward commercial arbitrations/mediation.

Contact: Michael J. Stepek

Tel: +44 20 7011 8754

Email: mstepek@winston.com

Labour & Employment Relations: 

The firm provides international employment law, advice, and counsel in connection with matters dealing with individual and collective labour relations, company restructuring, social security, worker retention policies and employment law-related litigation. In addition, Winston’s highly regarded employee benefits and executive compensation team handles all related aspects of benefits and compensation matters for clients with operations across the globe.

Contact: Michael Roche

Tel: +1 312 558 7508

Email: mroche@winston.com

Contact: Joe Adams

Tel: +1 312 558 3723

Email: jsadams@winston.com

Contact: Scott Landau

Tel: +1 212 294 6828

Email: slandau@winston.com

Latin America:  

Winston’s Latin America practice is active in nearly every market in the region, extending from Mexico and Panama to Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and beyond, including the Iberian peninsula investing into the region.The firm’s extensive regional experience covers various key sectors, such as oil and gas, mining, energy (including renewables), and infrastructure, and includes capital markets, M&A and spinoffs, joint ventures, private equity, project finance, finance, environmental, restructuring, tax, litigation, international arbitration, anticorruption/FCPA, and antitrust/competition.

Contact: Talbert Navia

Tel: +1 212 294 4728

Email: tnavia@winston.com

Project Finance:  

Winston’s international project finance lawyers have advised public and private lenders, project sponsors and developers, host governments, offtakers, and other project counterparties and participants in a broad range of non-recourse and limited recourse financings.

Contact: Mike Pikiel

Tel: +1 212 294 6654

Email: mpikiel@winston.com

Contact: Alan Hoffman

Tel: +1 212 294 2643

Email: ahoffman@winston.com

Tax:  

With an international geographic reach, Winston & Strawn’s integrated tax practice addresses virtually all areas of tax law. Attorneys have extensive experience representing some of the largest multinational public and private companies. Attorneys represent clients in tax planning, transactional tax, US federal tax controversy, US tax pass-through entities, US international tax, US renewable energy tax credits, tax-exempt organisations, and European tax matters.

Contact: Olga Loy

Tel: +1 312 558 6338

Email: oloy@winston.com

Transactions: 

In a global business and legal environment marked by change, U.S. and multinational companies, financial institutions, investors, and entrepreneurs face demanding challenges that significantly impact their businesses. Transactions partners advise clients around the globe to navigate these challenges, adapt to regulatory change, and move transactions to the finish line. Our transactional lawyers represent public and private companies, leading financial institutions, private equity and investment funds, funding sources, investors, and emerging companies in connection with high-profile and complex transactions—from cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, and mergers to joint ventures, spinoffs, and distressed acquisitions. We serve as counsel to boards and special committees and advise issuers and underwriters in connection with initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on offerings. Our finance lawyers have experience across all segments of the debt capital markets. Among our clients are traditional and specialty lenders, hedge funds, private equity and loan funds, collateral managers, trust companies, governmental bodies and agencies, and borrowers. We have advised clients in connection with billions of dollars in leveraged finance and asset-based lending transactions, syndicated capital markets transactions with cross-border and multicurrency components, first-of-kind structured finance transactions involving traditional and esoteric asset classes; infrastructure projects, and complex financings related to a range of other project types.

Contact: Timothy Kincaid

Tel: +1 312 558 5243

Email: tkincaid@winston.com

Contact: Brad Vaiana

Tel: +1 212 294 2610

Email: bvaiana@winston.com