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Scott Naidech
Scott Naidech
Partner
  • Chicago, 
  • New York
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+1 312-558-3769
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Partner

  • Chicago
  • New York
Michael Mullins
Michael Mullins
Partner
  • Chicago
Email
+1 312-558-7568
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Partner

  • Chicago
Margaret Frey
Margaret Frey
Partner
  • Chicago
Email
+1 312-558-7945
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Partner

  • Chicago
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Capabilities 70 results

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Fund Finance

We advise clients that originate, manage, and invest in broadly syndicated and middle-market corporate loans with their fund formation and capital markets fund-financing activities. Our experience includes structure and formation of CLOs, registered funds, hedge funds, listed funds, private credit funds, managed accounts, synthetic funds, SBICs, and onshore and offshore special purpose investment vehicles. Our experience spans the complete spectrum of services, including warehouse, leverage, and subscription facilities and ongoing portfolio support. Our Capital Markets Practice has extensive experience in debt and equity offerings, spin-offs, split-offs, and carve-outs, as well as securities compliance and corporate governance....Read more

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Private Investment Funds

Winston & Strawn represents both private investment fund managers and institutional investors in the full range of legal and market practice issues involved in establishing, managing, and investing in private investment vehicles. By representing both managers and institutional investors, our attorneys have a unique perspective on the market drawing from in-depth experience and state-of-the-art knowledge of legal issues, deal terms, and market trends....Read more

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Finance

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....Read more

Experience 98 results

Experience

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September 29, 2025

Winston Advises PJT Partners in Beyond Meat’s $1.105 Billion Exchange Offer

Winston & Strawn LLP represented PJT Partners in its role as dealer manager to Beyond Meat, Inc., a publicly traded food technology company and leading producer of plant-based meat alternatives, in connection with an exchange offer and consent solicitation for any and all of its $1.105 billion of 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 for up to $202.5 million in new 7.00% Convertible Senior Secured Second Lien PIK Toggle Notes due 2030 and up to approximately 326 million shares of common stock....Read more

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July 15, 2025

Atsion Commits Up to $200 Million in Strategic OFA Investment

Winston & Strawn is representing Atsion Opportunity Fund LLC – Series 1 in connection with its committed equity facility of up to US$200M with OFA Group. The facility enables OFA to issue and sell ordinary shares over a 36-month period to support its cryptocurrency treasury strategy....Read more

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July 11, 2025

Winston Represented South Reach Networks in Sale to Blue Owl

Winston represented Intermetro Fiber, LLC (d/b/a South Reach Networks (SRN)), a Florida-based fiber optic infrastructure provider, in its sale to a fund managed by affiliates Blue Owl Capital  (Blue Owl). This acquisition will allow Blue Owl to provide incremental scale and deepen Blue Owl's existing fiber capabilities, adding major new builds across the network, and scale the business to meet the growing need for additional fiber optic network capabilities across SRN's dark and lit fiber optic infrastructure network which spans 370 miles from Jacksonville to Miami....Read more
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November 12, 2025

Winston & Strawn Sponsors 2025 Smart Business Dealmakers Houston M&A Conference

Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor the upcoming Smart Business Dealmakers Houston M&A Conference. The conference will discuss topics ranging from raising capital to alternative asset investing, covering the breadth of the M&A landscape....Read more

False Claims Act Playbook

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October 30, 2025

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Private Equity Firm Avoids Potential False Claims Act Liability in Dismissal from Whistleblower Suit Brought by Healthcare Portfolio Company Executive

On October 15, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska (the Court) dismissed Pharos Capital Group and its related investment funds (Pharos Capital) from a qui tam or whistleblower suit brought under the antiretaliation provision of the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)) (the FCA), against Pharos Capital and Charter Health Care Group (Charter), a portfolio company of Pharos Capital.

Winston’s AI Top 10

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October 2025

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Winston’s AI Monthly Recap - October 2025

Winston’s AI Top 10 summarizes the latest AI developments in the legal industry.

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What Is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)?

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, also known as DAOs, are being used as an alternative way to organize and manage an organization or even a company. In short, the organization is effectively “programmed” into a series of smart contracts that are stored on a blockchain. These smart contracts dictate the basis of the organization’s management and decision-making. Essentially, according to this CNBC article, a DAO is “an Internet community with a shared bank account”—the organization is run by code on the blockchain rather than a hierarchical leadership system. This implies that the organization’s members directly serve as managers and owners without a need for extra bureaucracy.    ...Read more

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Who Are Institutional Investors?

Institutional investors are large non-individual shareholders, including hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, endowment funds, and insurance companies....Read more

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What Is Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)?

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is a proxy advisory firm that provides research and analysis, governance data, and shareholder proxy voting advice to hedge funds, mutual funds, and other investors....Read more
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