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Clearing the way for acquisitions or equity and debt investments demands a broad perspective, an understanding of client goals, and a focus on results. Winston & Strawn lawyers are committed to understanding the economics of every transaction, including its accounting and tax implications. Our global corporate practice provides securities and M&A legal services to multinational companies of all types and sizes, as well as to investment banks and other financial services firms. We also have extensive experience advising boards of directors and independent committees on corporate governance, transactions, investigations, and change-of-control issues.

 

The firm is a significant provider of securities and M&A legal services to a number ofFortune 300 companies, including Lear Corporation, Motorola, Inc., and Smurfit-Stone Container. Among the Fortune 500, we provide substantial corporate legal services to Fortune Brands and Stryker Corporation. Other large public companies for which we provide substantial corporate and securities legal services include AirGate PCS, Argosy Gaming, Crompton Corporation, Nuveen Investments, and Citizens Communications Company. 

 

Our experience in corporate matters is complemented by the firm’s other practice areas, including tax, labor and employment, employee benefits, intellectual property, environmental, and real estate. In addition, Winston"s litigation attorneys have assisted in the successful completion of contested mergers and acquisitions for our clients.

 

Winston & Strawn’s litigators consistently have been entrusted with some of corporate America’s most critical litigation. The strength of our firm’s litigation practice lies in our ability to take on some of the most difficult cases litigated around the world for high-profile clients and work effectively with in-house and co-counsel to create the teams required to manage large-scale litigation.
Winston & Strawn has more than 500 litigators and has compiled an impressive track record in major civil and criminal litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Our litigators have tried major jury and bench trials in virtually every significant federal and state venue, and we handle appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals, and numerous state appellate courts. In addition, our international arbitration attorneys have extensive experience with all of the major arbitration and international claims institutions and rules. Our litigation practice is led by veteran trial lawyers across the United States and abroad who collectively have tried hundreds of cases, including nationally acclaimed trial lawyer Dan Webb, who has been hailed as “one of the country’s most sought-after lawyers” by The American Lawyer.

In Chicago, our litigation attorneys represent clients in high-profile securities, white-collar, internal investigations, intellectual property, and product liability matters on a national basis. Litigators in the firm"s West Coast offices have achieved particular prominence in the defense of wage and hour class actions, and also have built a successful practice handling complex intellectual property, securities, and commercial cases, including class actions. In New York, our litigation attorneys represent clients in high-profile securities, white-collar, internal investigations, insurance coverage, and product liability matters on a regional and national basis. Winston"s Washington, D.C. office has significant capabilities in the areas of white-collar and complex commercial litigation, while our litigators in Charlotte focus on environmental, employment, securities, and banking litigation. The firm’s newest office in Houston is home to nearly 40 litigators who assist clients in intellectual property, antitrust, securities, and other complex commercial litigation matters.

 

The depth and experience of our litigation practice is further evidenced by the fact it includes:

• More than 50 partners who have tried cases to verdict in the past five years
• Five Fellows of The American College of Trial Lawyers
• Seventeen partners who are former prosecutors with U.S. Attorney"s Offices in California, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, and other states, including two former U.S. Attorneys
• More than 100 attorneys who have been judicial clerks, working at the Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. district courts, U.S. bankruptcy courts, U.S. tax courts, and state courts

We understand that our litigation clients have different legal and business objectives—to solve a problem, to right a wrong, to protect a product or reputation, to limit financial exposure. We work closely with clients to develop a strategy that meets their business needs. Mindful of the costs and burdens of litigation, our lawyers attempt to assist clients in resolving disputes short of litigation, if possible. However, we do have exceptional trial experience and are prepared to proceed to trial when it is the best course of action to meet client objectives

Keeping a deal moving forward can be challenging. Winston & Strawn"s finance attorneys help our clients maintain momentum with a commitment to understanding the challenges, risks, and opportunities our clients face. We work hard to understand our clients" business plans and the rationale for those plans. Winston & Strawn"s finance lawyers have developed their understanding through representation of financial institutions and corporate enterprises of all types and sizes from all perspectives of the finance industry. In particular, we represent and advise clients in capital debt markets, large and mid-cap corporate lending, private and public securitization, lease finance, project finance, debt fund management and trading, as well as derivatives transactions.