Recognitions
Winston & Strawn Wins Three Law360 Practice Group of the Year Awards
Recognitions
January 22, 2024
Winston & Strawn’s Project Finance, Sports Law, and Government Investigations, Enforcement, and Compliance Practices were named among Law360’s 2023 Practice Groups of the Year. This annual accolade series recognizes the law firms whose work shaped the legal industry during the previous year.
Project Finance
The Project Finance Practice was involved with numerous influential transactions that secured their spot on this year’s list of honorees. The team’s highlights include serving as lead counsel to a group of institutional investors in connection with a US$202M private placement for a portfolio of community solar projects; representing the underwriters, lenders and interest rate swap providers, and note purchasers in connection with a US$1.18B green financing which was lauded as a first-of-its-kind project in the U.S. infrastructure market; and closing a unique I-285/I-20 East Interchange MMIP Project financing described by GDOT as a “…game-changer of an infrastructure project.”
Read Winston’s Law360 Project Finance interview here.
Sports & Betting
This is the fourth consecutive year that Winston’s Sports Law Practice has been recognized as a Law360 Practice Group of the Year. Among other accomplishments, the team successfully revived Relevent Sports’ antitrust suit against FIFA and the U.S. Soccer Federation in the Second Circuit; secured a favorable settlement in the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team equal-pay case; and secured certification of an injunctive-relieve class in a college athletes’ name, image, and likeness rights lawsuit on behalf of the NCAA.
Read Winston’s Law360 Sports & Betting interview here.
White Collar
Winston’s Government Investigations, Enforcement, and Compliance Practice was recognized for an outstanding year of wins and influential matters. A sample of their notable matters includes obtaining a complete acquittal of Winston’s client in a trial of “espionage-lite” claims; securing a full dismissal for a dentist on the brink of trial for criminal charges involving an alleged US$158M health care fraud and money-laundering scheme; and deftly advising Empire Navigation through an Iranian sanctions violation action to a favorable resolution.
