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Class Actions & Group Litigation
Winston has developed a consistent record of success handling class action cases in state and federal courts. The practice is anchored by seasoned class action lawyers, many of whom have been recognized by Chambers USA and other ranking organizations as being top practitioners in their field. Our clients rely on us to steer them through class action matters by drawing on the firm’s significant experience in resolving complex litigation using creative and aggressive arguments, across a broad range of class, collective, coordinated, and mass actions, as well multidistrict litigation. We also have succeeded at trial in several class actions—a rare occurrence.
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Bankruptcy Litigation & Investigations
Large corporate bankruptcies and companies in financial distress often spawn a complex web of claims by lenders, trustees, debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, investors, shareholders, and other constituents. Attorneys in Winston & Strawn’s complex commercial litigation group and restructuring and insolvency group—both ranked in Tier 1 by Best Law Firms®—serve as trusted advisors and resolute advocates to protect clients’ business interests and assets in multifaceted Chapter 11 cases and bankruptcy-related disputes.
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With an international geographic reach, Winston & Strawn’s integrated tax practice addresses virtually all areas of tax law. Our group of 40 tax attorneys is well-versed in representing some of the largest public and privately-held corporations, exempt organizations, and large estates.
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Experience
|April 29, 2024
Winston advised the partners of BCF Life Sciences Group in its sale to Sparkfood
Experience
|February 16, 2024
Winston Represented Whitsons Culinary Group in its Acquisition of Fresh Picks Café
Experience
|January 22, 2024
Groupon, Inc. $80.0 Million Fully Backstopped Rights Offering for Common Stock
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Seminar/CLE
|May 9, 2024
Winston’s Product & Mass Torts Summit Series 2024
Winston & Strawn is pleased to kick off our Product & Mass Tort Summit—a series of panels to be presented in key U.S. markets. The first one-hour CLE panel in the series will bring together Winston partners along with in-house counsel Bill Childs (Solventum) and David Mendelson (Abbott Laboratories) to dig into practical and actionable considerations for corporate counsel in managing product liability and mass tort cases.
Recognitions
|April 29, 2024
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Eleven Winston & Strawn attorneys were named on the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers list. The guide highlights “the privacy and data security specialists who began forming this practice well over a decade ago as companies experienced data breaches and attorneys scurried to become designated as privacy specialists.”
Recognitions
|April 23, 2024
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Nimalka Wickramasekera Named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Top 100 Lawyers List
Winston & Strawn partner and Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Co-Chair Nimalka Wickramasekera merited a place on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Top 100 Lawyers list. This annual award recognizes the Los Angeles area’s top 100 lawyers for their outstanding legal achievements, community involvement, and impacts on the profession.
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A class action is a procedural device that allows one or more persons, usually plaintiffs (though federal and state procedural rules also authorize defendant classes) to file suit on behalf of a group of similarly situated persons. Federal law defines a class action as “any civil action filed under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or similar State statute or rule of judicial procedure authorizing an action to be brought by 1 or more representative persons as a class action.” 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(1)(B), (d)(8).
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Loot boxes are randomized collections or boxes of virtual items, often made available for purchase with money. A player who purchases a loot box in a game does not know its contents until he or she opens the box, causing advocacy groups and government actors to liken loot boxes to games of chance, and to call for their regulation under gambling laws.