Winston & Strawn LLP

Chairman: Tom Fitzgerald

Vice Chairman: Michael Elkin

Co-Executive Chairmen: Jeffrey Kessler, Dan Webb

London Managing Partner: Nicholas Usher

Contacts

Finance: Ian Borman

Private Equity: Paul Amiss, Nicholas Usher

M&A: Paul Amiss, Nicholas Usher

Litigation: Ben Bruton

International Arbitration: Michael Stepek

Antitrust/Competition: Peter Crowther

Sports: Peter Crowther

Tax: Ed Denny

Restructuring & Insolvency: Paul Fleming

THE FIRM

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 975 lawyers in 15 offices across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Winston’s London office focuses on corporate (including cross-border M&A, private equity, venture capital, and tax), finance (including acquisition, leveraged, restructuring & insolvency), dispute resolution (including litigation, international arbitration, and contentious regulatory), antitrust/competition and sports 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, 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.