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Winston’s Debt Finance team focuses on all aspects of leveraged finance and asset-based lending both internationally and domestically. Our clients include leading international investment banks, commercial banks, direct lenders, credit funds, insurance companies, CLOs, and other institutional investors, as well as private equity funds, hedge funds, and corporations.
Practice Area
Keeping a deal moving forward can be challenging. Our 100+ Finance attorneys help clients maintain momentum with a commitment to understanding the challenges, risks, and opportunities they face. Our global team has developed great insights through the representation of financial institutions and corporate enterprises of all types and sizes in the finance industry. We have a well-rounded finance practice, with dedicated teams that advise banks, credit funds, alternative capital providers, sponsors, and corporations on a wide range of transactions including debt finance (leveraged, asset-based, and reserve-based lending), fund finance, structured finance, derivatives and structured products, project finance, and transportation finance.
Industry
Financial services companies in the financial technology (FinTech) space are contributing to rapid technological advances and innovation in the development, offering, and delivery of core financial products and services. Winston’s FinTech, Banking & Payments attorneys support these companies throughout the entire FinTech business life cycle, from proof of concept through maturity, including federal and state licensing and registration, regulatory compliance and risk management, structured finance, M&A, and private equity, intellectual property (IP) management, and supervision and enforcement. Our clients include banks, FinTech companies, private equity and other investors, money services businesses, trust companies, consumer finance companies, investment advisers, and other financial firms.
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Experience
|March 31, 2025
Winston & Strawn assists Santa Fe Operating, LLC, a subsidiary of HRM Resources IV, LLC, a Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors sponsor-backed borrower, in reserve-based $300,000,000 lending facility with BOKF, NA, the proceeds of which were used to acquire producing oil and gas properties.
Experience
|January 10, 2025
Winston Advises on Pioneering Bitcoin Crypto Lending Programs
Winston & Strawn represented subsidiaries of Hankey Group—Hankey Capital, Westlake Financial, and Midway—in structuring new, cutting-edge Bitcoin Lending Programs which provide real estate and luxury vehicle purchasers with innovative ways to pledge Bitcoin as collateral. The Bitcoin Lending Programs provide Hankey with flexibility on loan terms and conditions and offers Hankey’s borrower clients dynamic solutions for pledging Bitcoin as collateral.
Experience
|June 3, 2024
Wells Fargo $1.1 Billion Credit Facility to White Oak ABL 3, LLC
Winston & Strawn represented Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Agent, in connection with a $1,100,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility provided to White Oak ABL 3, LLC, an affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors, LLC. The transaction included 11 other banks, increasing the capital that can be invested in asset-based lending (ABL). The new credit facility expands on White Oak’s already robust international lending capabilities to support its U.S., Canadian, U.K., and Australian- headquartered borrowers with international operations and lendable assets in select European and Asian jurisdictions, as well as Mexico.
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Recognitions
|October 27, 2025
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Winston & Strawn Recognized in the IFLR1000 UK 2025 Rankings
Winston & Strawn has been recognized in the 2025 edition of the IFLR1000 UK, a leading guide to the world’s top financial and corporate transactional law firms and lawyers. Winston was recognized in the following practice areas:
Recognitions
|October 27, 2025
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Winston & Strawn Recognized in The Legal 500 UK 2026
Winston & Strawn’s London office has been ranked in the 2026 edition of The Legal 500 UK across seven practice areas:
Webinar
|October 21, 2025
Bayes H1 2025 UK Debt Market Survey Results
UK CRE market: surprising results for a time of macro-economic unpredictability, and fiscal and trade policy volatility.
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FinTech (Financial Technology) is a term used to categorize technology-driven solutions to traditional banking products. FinTech aims to make financial services more accessible to consumers.
Location
Opened in 2003, Winston & Strawn’s San Francisco office is located in the financial district, just down the road from the Bay Area’s technology epicenter. Our team—now 25+ lawyers strong—keeps a finger on the pulse of the rapidly evolving financial services and technology sectors, and offers support across a wide spectrum of services, including antitrust/competition, commercial litigation and disputes, government investigations and compliance, intellectual property, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, and product liability. The San Francisco team works seamlessly with lawyers and departments across the firm’s global network to ensure the highest quality service to our clients. With a culture that represents the Bay Area’s innovative spirit, our lawyers are regularly honored with high-profile awards and frequently recognized by publications, such as Chambers USA, The American Lawyer, the Daily Journal, and The Recorder.
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The full name of the Dodd-Frank Act is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It was passed in 2010 to regulate the financial market and protect consumers from risky financial practices. The legislation and its rules cover the following: