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)

London Managing Partner: Nicholas Usher

Number of lawyers worldwide: 975+

Firm Overview:

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 975 attorneys among 14 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC.

Key Contacts

CORPORATE & FINANCE

M&A: Nicholas Usher, Adam Howard

Private Equity: Paul Amiss, Nicholas Usher

Capital Markets: Paul Amiss, Adam Howard

Finance: Ian Borman, Daniela Cohen

Real Estate Finance: Aparna Sehgal

Tax: Ed Denny

DISPUTES

Litigation: Ben Bruton, Daniel Meagher

International Arbitration: Michael Stepek, Matthew Bate

Antitrust/Competition/Regulatory: Peter Crowther

THE FIRM

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with 975+ lawyers in 14 offices across North America, South America and Europe. Winston’s London office focuses on corporate (including cross-border M&A, private equity, venture capital, and tax), finance (including real estate, acquisition, leveraged, restructuring & insolvency), dispute resolution (including litigation, international arbitration, and contentious regulatory), and antitrust/competition matters.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK

Corporate:

Winston’s corporate practice provides a wide range of services to public and private companies, private equity and investment funds, funding sources, investors, emerging companies and family offices on a broad range of high-profile transactions and matters. These include cross-border mergers, acquisition and disposition, strategic alliances and joint ventures, initial public offerings, SPACs, and distressed acquisitions. Winston’s award-winning team handles transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity and represent both large and middle-market clients.

Finance:

Winston’s lawyers in the financial services practice assist borrowers, lenders, and sponsors in acquisition and leveraged finance, asset-backed lending, real estate finance, restructuring matters, bank regulatory and compliance, investment management, private funds, broker-dealer, and futures/exchange matters. The finance team provides a wide range of legal services to public and private companies, leading financial institutions, investment funds, alternative funding sources, investors, and emerging companies.

Litigation:

Winston is a dispute resolution powerhouse, routinely handling some of the most critical disputes faced by companies, governments, and individuals. The London litigation team focuses on complex commercial litigation, contentious regulatory and investigations, arbitration, and mediation in a variety of practice areas. These include fraud and white collar crime, commercial, securities, trade and insolvency matters, as well as regulatory investigations and disciplinary proceedings. Winston’s lawyers have been involved in some of the most innovative litigation before the English Courts across the commercial spectrum. Cases have ranged from injunctions to protect confidential information, to innovative litigation to protect brands, complex tax litigation, real estate litigation, and accounting disputes.

International Arbitration:

Winston’s London office routinely handles critical international disputes that are often on the cutting edge of new developments. Winston has a wealth of experience acting for a diverse mix of European, North and South American, Middle Eastern, and Asian sovereign states and investors across a range of industries. Winston’s lawyers represent a broad range of individuals, governments, and companies, advising them on some of the largest and most complex ‘bet the company’ multi-jurisdictional disputes in the world. The firm also excels in mid-sized, commercial arbitration and a variety of mediation proceedings, in addition to court actions enforcing or challenging arbitral awards.

Antitrust/Competition:

Winston’s experienced antitrust/competition team has a distinguished reputation for successfully advising high-profile clients on the full range of competition, cartel defence, trade and sanctions, data privacy, trade secrets and regulatory matters. The team regularly assists companies, industry associations, and governments in navigating applicable laws and regulations to achieve their strategic business goals — often via the development of creative strategies. Winston represents clients on a variety of high-stakes competition matters before the European Commission, EU Member State authorities, and the European community courts. A significant part of the team’s practice involves advising on a wide range of sports matters including complaints and investigations relating to athlete welfare, performance development, funding, selection, classification, doping and athlete agreements.