Winston & Strawn Recognized in Chambers USA 2025

Chambers USA 2025 ranked Winston & Strawn as a leading law firm in 60 categories. Chambers & Partners is a prominent UK-based publishing organization that ranks lawyers and law firms based on robust editorial research and direct conversations with lawyers and clients.

Additionally, 15 lawyers were ranked in Band 1 or as Star individuals, and overall, 96 lawyers were listed as leaders in 68 different practice areas. 27 of Winston’s 60 ranked practice areas received Band 1 or Band 2 status.

Winston was ranked in the following areas:

CALIFORNIA

• Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets**
• Labor & Employment: The Elite
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Private Equity: Buyouts

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Intellectual Property: Litigation
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded*

FLORIDA

• Banking & Finance
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded*
• Tax

FLORIDA – SOUTH

• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity

ILLINOIS

• Antitrust*
• Banking & Finance
• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity**
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation*
• Environment**
• Intellectual Property**
• Labor & Employment: The Elite
• Litigation: General Commercial*
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations**
• Real Estate
• Tax

NEW YORK

• Antitrust
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded**
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
• Litigation: Securities
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: Highly Regarded
• Media & Entertainment: Litigation

NORTH CAROLINA

• Litigation: General Commercial
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations**

TEXAS

• Banking & Finance
• Corporate/M&A: The Elite
• Intellectual Property**
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations**
• Real Estate

TEXAS – DALLAS, FORT WORTH & SURROUNDS

• Litigation: General Commercial*

TEXAS – HOUSTON & SURROUNDS

• Litigation: General Commercial

USA – NATIONWIDE

• Antitrust
• Antitrust: Cartel**
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets: Securitization: CLOs
• Capital Markets: Securitization: PACE**
• Capital Markets: Securitization: RMBS**
• Corporate Crime & Investigations: Highly Regarded*
• E-Discovery & Information Governance**
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
• Intellectual Property
• International Arbitration: Highly Regarded**
• Investment Fund: Investor Representation
• Offshore Energy**
• Private Equity: Fund Formation
• Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded*
• Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional
• Projects: PPP**
• Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy**
• Securities Litigation
• Sports Law*
• Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Regulatory*

*Band 1

** Band 2

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