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Our structured finance group is widely recognized as a leader, encompassing Esoteric Finance, Residential Asset Finance and Securitization, and CLOs/Fund Finance. Positioned prominently at the forefront of the industry, our team boasts extensive experience across a broad spectrum of assets, with a particular focus on bespoke structures and emerging and/or “esoteric” assets, including residential and commercial PACE, RMBS, and CMBS; aircraft, vessel, and railcar finance; FinTech and marketplace lending; CLOs; specialty finance; consumer and business lending; energy structured finance (including solar finance and reserve-based finance); derivatives and structured products; lease and operating asset finance; trade receivables; litigation settlement financing; and life settlements.
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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 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.
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Winston has decades of experience representing clients in international arbitrations around the world. Representing clients in both commercial and investor-state international arbitrations, we are well known by the leading players in the global arbitration arena. Our integrated team of attorneys enforces awards worldwide, knows every angle of international disputes, and has a robust understanding of our client’s industries.
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Experience
|March 1, 2022
Broadstone Acquisition Corp. Announced Business Combination with Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd.
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Broadstone Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: BSN), a NYSE-listed special purpose acquisition corporation, founded by a UK-based team of high-profile entrepreneurs, in its business combination with Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd. ("Vertical"), a leading UK-headquartered engineering and aeronautical business developing electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The transaction completed in December 2021 and resulted in Vertical becoming a publicly traded company, with a pro forma equity value of approximately US$2.2B. Vertical is now listed on the NYSE under the ticker EVTL.
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Global Trade & Foreign Policy Insights
|January 28, 2025
|2 Min Read
Prospective Tariffs on Goods from Colombia
On January 26, 2025, a feud between the United States and Colombia began pertaining to U.S. military flights carrying deportees to Colombia. After initially providing approval for the two aircraft to land in Colombia, Colombian President Gustavo Petro blocked their landing. According to his multiple social media posts, he explained that he was objecting to the use of military planes as opposed to commercial airlines to deport the migrants. In response, President Trump posted on social media that his administration will institute a number of actions against Colombia.
Tax Impacts
|April 9, 2024
|3 Min Read
Taking Aim: IRS’s Compliance Campaign Makes Sports Industry Target of Enforcement Measures
The world of professional sports has seen its share of activity in recent weeks, with the new NFL league year and free-agency-signing period opening and the sights and sounds of MLB Opening Day filling the air in recent weeks. Lest we forget February’s Super Bowl LVIII overtime thriller, crowning a new football dynasty with the Kansas City Chief’s third Super Bowl title in five years.
Benefits Blast
|March 15, 2024
|3 Min Read
IRS Soars to New Heights on Audits of the Company Jet
Historically, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has fiercely pursued companies for misapplication of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) to purported personal use of the company’s owned or chartered aircraft by employees and directors. The Commissioner recently announced that “with expanded resources, IRS work in this area will take off. These aircraft audits will help ensure high-income groups aren’t flying under the radar with their tax responsibilities.” The IRS will be following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) similar focus on use of company aircraft that is not “integrally and directly” related to the performance of an executive’s duties. The IRS audits will be focused on (i) aircraft usage by large corporations, large partnerships, and high-income taxpayers, and (ii) whether, for tax purposes, an executive’s use of jets that are fractionally or 100% company-owned is being properly allocated between business and personal use.
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Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. office—the first outside of Chicago—opened its doors in 1970. The office is home to 75+ lawyers, many of whom are nationally recognized and award-winning, with experience navigating clients through regulatory and enforcement issues as well as complicated governmental processes. Located in the center of the nation’s capital, the D.C. office assists clients at the intersection of business, government, and law. We represent 75+ Fortune 500 companies and employ eight lawyers with prior government experience. The office also boasts a nationally ranked eDiscovery group known for providing a full-service practice.
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Opened in 2017, Winston & Strawn’s Dallas office is located in the cultural and economic epicenter of DFW, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and the fastest growing over the last year. Our Dallas attorneys litigate both high-stakes civil and criminal matters, including major state and federal trials and appeals nationwide, and represent clients in complex transactional matters. Under the leadership of Bryan L. Goolsby, our office—made up of nearly 100 lawyers—continues to expand, attracting some of the country’s top legal talent to meet the increased needs of the many technology, investment, and health care companies that are increasingly making Dallas their home.
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Winston’s London office acts as a hub for our cross-border clients and advises a range of emerging and global companies, corporates, financial institutions, and private investors on domestic and cross-border matters. Our legal practices include corporate, M&A, private equity, capital markets, banking and finance, restructuring, litigation and disputes, international arbitration, antitrust and competition, and tax. Practitioners based in London include not only lawyers who are recognized as leaders in their fields but also a diverse group of international professionals, many of whom are bilingual and dual-qualified. Our global platform enables our London lawyers to quickly marshal relevant experience across practices and offices.