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)

Number of partners in US: 354

Number of other lawyers in US: 553

Number of lawyers worldwide: 950+

Firm Overview:

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 950 attorneys among 15 offices in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC.

Main Areas of Practice

Antitrust/Competition:

Winston’s global antitrust/competition attorneys help clients across many sectors with a full range of services, including advice related to all aspects of global cartel defense, civil and criminal litigation, government investigations, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory counseling and compliance.

Contact: Eva Cole

Tel: +1 212 294 4609

Email: [email protected]

Contact: James Herbison

Tel: +1 312-558-5909

Email: [email protected]

Litigation:

Corporate America consistently trusts Winston with their most high-stakes litigation. Winston litigators have tried major jury and bench trials in virtually every significant federal and state venue and assisted with high-profile investigations related to SEC, AG, and other regulatory inquiries. They handle appeals before the US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeals, and state appellate courts. Winston’s international arbitration attorneys have extensive experience with all the major arbitration and international claims institutions and rules. Substantive areas of litigation work include: antitrust, commercial, breach of fiduciary duty, securities, product liability, class actions, financial services, white collar, patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, energy, media and entertainment, tax, and bankruptcy-related litigation.

Contact: Linda Coberly

Tel: +1 312 558 8768

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Tom Melsheimer

Tel: +1 214 453 6401

Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Contact: Brad Vaiana

Tel: +1 212 294 2610

Email: [email protected]

Corporate & Finance:

Winston’s corporate and finance practice provides securities and M&A legal services to multinational companies, investment banks, and other financial services firms. The firm’s private equity work encompasses capital raising, investment and divestiture, and operational activities. In the finance area, Winston represents clients in capital markets, corporate lending, securitization, lease finance, and derivatives transactions. The firm’s financial services practice assists clients in bank regulatory and compliance, investment management, private fund, broker-dealer, and futures/exchange matters. Winston provides restructuring and insolvency advice to debtors, creditors, committees, purchasers, and other parties in bankruptcy matters. Winston is also a leader in special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transactions and the team regularly represents SPAC sponsors and underwriters in structuring SPACs and completing their IPOs; SPACs and target companies in SPAC business combination transactions; and investors considering investments in SPACs.

Contact: Mats Carlston

Tel: +1 212 294 6696

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Michael Mullins

Tel: +1 312 558 7568

Email: [email protected]

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation:

Winston assists employers with the compensation of employees and the planning and administration of employee benefits, as well as all forms of executive compensation plans. Winston also advises clients regarding the use of ESOPs and ESOP-related strategies in a wide variety of transactions.

Contact: Joe Adams

Tel: +1 312 558 3723

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Scott Landau

Tel: +1 212 294 6828

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. 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: Mike Blankenship

Tel: +1 713 651 2678

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Rich Shutran

Tel: +1 212 294 5354

Email: [email protected]

Environmental:

This practice handles all aspects of environmental law, from Superfund actions and toxic tort claims to environmental compliance in transactions to regulatory issues.

Contact: Eleni Kouimelis

Tel: +1 312 558 5133

Email: [email protected]

Government Investigations, Enforcement, and Compliance Practice:

Winston’s Government Investigations, Enforcement, and Compliance Practice helps organizations and individuals with criminal and civil government investigations and enforcement matters; related criminal and civil proceedings, including trials and appeals; internal investigations; congressional investigations and oversight; and compliance counseling, including the development and implementation of compliance programs. We have deep substantive experience with investigations and related proceedings involving alleged government program fraud, health care fraud, securities fraud, international trade and sanctions, government contracting, financial services regulatory and compliance, environmental matters, the FCPA, money laundering, CFIUS, public corruption, and election law, among other matters. Our team is comprised of more than 80 litigators, including 2 former U.S. Attorneys and more than 11 Assistant and Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorneys, the former Chief of the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division, and several DOJ and SEC attorneys.

Contact: Suzanne Jaffe Bloom

Tel: +1 212 294 4604

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Abbe David Lowell

Tel: +1 202 282 5875

Email: [email protected]

Health Care & Life Sciences:

Winston has developed an industry-wide practice in the health care and life sciences field that encompasses virtually all aspects of health care law and integrates nearly every legal practice area. Our attorneys are seasoned practitioners with experience serving as general, litigation, and special counsel to a wide variety of health care organizations and entities. We have a solid understanding of the health care sector and proven success in representing our clients in a broad spectrum of issues.

Contact: Reed Stephens

Tel: +1 202 282 5795

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property:

Winston’s IP attorneys litigate disputes in federal courts and before the USPTO and ITC. The practice includes risk assessment, portfolio management, and prosecution of applications for patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and supervision of global IP enforcement initiatives. Winston’s IP attorneys assist with patent, trademark, and copyright licenses, product development deals, privacy and data security, advertising, marketing, and promotions.

Contact: David Enzminger

Tel: +1 650 858 6580

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Jennifer Golinveaux

Tel: +1 415 591 1506

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Nimalka Wickramasekera

Tel: +1 213 615 1819

Email: [email protected]

Labor & Employment Relations:

Winston’s labor and employment law practice provides counseling and has appeared in state and federal courts around the country and before the NLRB, DOL, EEOC, and other local, state, and federal agencies.

Contact: Michael Roche

Tel: +1 312 558 7508

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate:

Winston real estate attorneys assist purchasers, sellers, developers, borrowers, and lenders in major real estate investment, development, and lending activities. They represent US and international corporations, financial institutions, and other clients in acquisitions, financings, sales, developments, and leasings.

Contact: Andy White

Tel: +1 312 558 6393

Email: [email protected]

Tax:

Winston tax attorneys provide assistance ranging from planning to dispute resolution and legislative and regulatory representation. They help clients resolve significant tax issues by creatively planning transactions, effectively influencing tax policy, and carefully working with the IRS. They also resolve tax controversies through the IRS administrative process and litigation.

Contact: Olga Loy

Tel: +1 312 558 6338

Email: [email protected]

Transportation:

Winston has significant experience representing clients in the transportation sector. Notably, Winston is nationally recognized as a “go-to” firm for the maritime industry, advising on US government policy, law, regulations, and enforcement. By representing a diverse mix of industry participants—from vessel owners and operators to businesses that charter vessels to port authorities to others engaged in the financing of maritime transportation assets—Winston’s maritime attorneys have gained a deep understanding of the most important issues facing its clients. Winston also has a team of aviation attorneys who are leaders in the field of structuring, negotiating, and closing complex commercial transactions involving all types of aircraft, engines, spare parts, and related assets.

Contact: Charlie Papavizas

Tel: +1 202 282 5732

Email: [email protected]