Public Companies

Client-Centric Approach

At Winston, our dedication to client success drives every aspect of our practice. We recognize that each public company's needs are unique, and we tailor our approach to providing legal services accordingly. By collaborating closely with our clients, we build lasting partnerships founded on trust and a shared commitment to achieving exceptional outcomes.

Our Public Company Advisory Group offers a steady guiding hand, ensuring that our clients navigate challenges with confidence, make informed decisions, and seize opportunities for growth in today's dynamic business landscape. Our experienced attorneys are well-equipped to guide clients through the complexities of corporate governance, securities law, the evolving regulatory environment, and strategic transactions.

Guiding Excellence in Public Company Matters

Our adept team consists of a diverse group of skilled attorneys throughout the firm who collaborate with each other to deliver pragmatic guidance to clients across all areas of the law faced by a public company. This spans from day-to-day operations matters, securities transactions, and reporting commitments to corporate governance matters arising within strategic M&A undertakings, management succession planning, change-in-control events, executive and board compensation, takeover defenses, and corporate litigation.

Litigation and Strategic Advisory

In an environment of increasing scrutiny, our litigators possess the skills and experience necessary to represent public companies in various legal actions and advisory matters. From federal securities class actions to shareholder derivative suits, litigation linked to mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, adversarial proceedings in bankruptcy, state corporate law litigation and trials in Delaware and other jurisdictions, breach of fiduciary duty claims, ERISA class actions, government investigations, capital markets and investment banking liability, corporate governance advisory, and auditor liability, we vigorously defend our clients' interests and mitigate potential legal challenges, frequently, early on in the transaction planning phase before any litigation has developed.

Navigating Capital Markets and Beyond

Our clients frequently access both public and private institutional capital markets to fund their enterprises. We routinely advise on capital markets offerings and various transactions related to securities, encompassing public and private equity and debt offerings, spin-offs, stock repurchase programs, liability management, and refinancing. Our in-depth familiarity with clients' operations, business goals, and public disclosures, honed through close collaboration on SEC filings and other disclosures, equips us to strategically advise them on a wide range of transactions. We work closely with our clients to draft transaction documents that include vital disclosures required for capital markets transactions, ensuring efficiency and timeliness, particularly when time-to-market for an offering is critical to the client’s plans.

A Holistic Approach to Client Success

Supported by our broader corporate transactional practices, our team of Public Company Advisory Group attorneys are able to bring to bear the entire firm’s experience in mergers and acquisitions, finance, real estate, tax, intellectual property, environmental, special situations and restructuring, and litigation to our representation of public companies. This collaborative approach enables us to guide our public company clients in a comprehensive manner through every phase of their lifecycle, safeguarding their legal interests while facilitating their growth and evolution.