Winston & Strawn LLP

Firm Details:
Co-Executive Chairmen: Dan Webb and Jeffrey Kessler
Chairman: Thomas Fitzgerald
Vice Chairman: Michael Elkin
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 165-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 900 attorneys across the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm has 16 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas,

Hong Kong, 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

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: [email protected]

Contact: Jeffrey Kessler
Tel: +1 212 294 4698
Email: [email protected]

Contact: Peter Crowther
Tel: +44 20 7011 8750
Email: [email protected]

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: Eva Davis
Tel: +1 213 615 1719
Email: [email protected]

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: George Lombardi
Tel: +1 312 558 5969
Email: [email protected]

Contact: Stephen D’Amore
Tel: +1 312 558 5934
Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Contact: Mike Blankenship
Tel: +1 713 651 2678
Email: [email protected]

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: Chuck Klein
Tel: +1 202 282 5977
Email: [email protected]

Contact: David Enzminger
Tel: +1 650 858 6580
Email: [email protected]

Contact: Jennifer Golinveaux
Tel: +1 415 591 1506
Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Contact: Joe Adams
Tel: +1 312 558 3723
Email: [email protected]

Contact: Scott Landau
Tel: +1 212 294 6828
Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Contact: Allen Miller
Tel: +1 212 294 5330
Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Contact: Alan Hoffman
Tel: +1 212 294 2643
Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Contact: Rob Heller
Tel: +1 212 294 6776
Email: [email protected]