Private Equity

Winston & Strawn serves as outside general counsel to a wide range of portfolio companies and their management teams. We understand the strategic and operational needs of these companies and have developed a wide range of service delivery models that enable our clients to better manage their legal costs.

Representation of portfolio companies requires experienced counsel who understand the business of our clients and who will be there to answer questions that arise every day. Our lawyers have the commercial judgment, real-world experience, and sophistication to guide the management teams and boards of portfolio companies through a variety of legal and business challenges, including corporate finance, intellectual property matters, employee benefits, and other human resource and workforce-related issues.

Winston & Strawn is regularly engaged as outside general counsel for emerging companies, with respect to the full range of corporate services required by companies that rapidly expand their products, services, footprint, intellectual property and human capital resources, and the capital needs of these businesses.

Our venture capital practice focuses on meeting our clients’ particular needs, through strategic use of market practices and market standard approaches. Our company-side practice draws on our high-volume work for sophisticated, household-name strategic and financial investors, and a deep understanding of the needs and objectives of these investors.

We regularly represent venture capital firms, corporate venture funds, other strategic investors, family offices, angel investors, high-net-worth individuals in connection with their equity, and debt investments in emerging growth companies. We have extensive experience with all stages of venture capital financing, including seed-stage, early-stage, and growth-stage financing, with transaction sizes ranging from $500,000 to $1 billion or more. We take a considered, efficient and thorough approach to representation of high-growth companies in their venture financing strategy and transactions.