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Executive Compensation Plans & Agreements

Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) attorneys generally focus on two separate but related areas—employee benefits and executive compensation. We advise corporations, boards of directors, private equity firms, and executives on all legal, design, drafting, negotiation, and compliance aspects of executive compensation matters. We advise corporations, firms, fiduciaries, executives, administrators, governmental entities, and financial institutions on innovative and traditional employee retirement and health and welfare benefits programs. Our substantial experience and over 50 years of involvement in the EBEC field have given us a deep understanding of the evolution of benefits law and the market for executive compensation....Read more

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Public Companies

Winston offers a comprehensive cross-practice area Public Company Advisory Group, which leverages the collective experience of our Capital Markets and Securities, M&A, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Complex Commercial and Securities Litigation, and Tax practices, to advise our clients on the wide range of issues they face as public companies. With extensive experience providing top-tier legal counsel to our clients, we have cultivated a deep reservoir of knowledge in SEC reporting and compliance, capital markets, executive compensation, and corporate governance matters, earning the trust of numerous public company clients as their legal advisors in these critical areas....Read more

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

With attorneys based in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Winston’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) team represents a broad range of plan sponsors and offers clients not just deal support but the full suite of employee benefit services. These include public company reporting and executive compensation, employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions, qualified retirement plans and Title I investment advice, health and welfare benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and international human resources matters. And driven by a volatile labor market, we are partnering with clients to innovate plan structure and design, including cutting-edge services such as private exchange medical benefits, employee benefits in captive insurance, and fiduciary governance best practices. With decades of experience, our EBEC team maintains strong brand recognition, with clients describing our attorneys as “superb,” “very client-friendly,” “extremely responsive and able to bring forth the right resources,” and “having an “incredible breadth of knowledge.”...Read more

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May 8, 2026

Boost Run Inc. Completes Business Combination with Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.

Winston & Strawn LLP represented Boost Run Inc. ("Boost Run") in connection with its business combination with Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. ("Willow Lane"). Boost Run is a leading provider of instant, scalable GPU infrastructure for AI workloads. The transaction strengthened Boost Run's balance sheet with gross proceeds (prior to transaction expenses) of $134.5 million, representing the full Willow Lane trust account as a result of no redemptions being submitted....Read more

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May 1, 2026

Forefront Tech Holdings Acquisition Corp $100,000,000 Initial Public Offering

Winston & Strawn LLP served as legal counsel to Forefront Tech Holdings Acquisition Corp in connection with its $100,000,000 initial public offering. The Company priced 10,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Class A ordinary share at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustments....Read more

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April 29, 2026

KeHE Distributors, LLC - $500.0 Million Senior Secured Notes Offering

Winston & Strawn, LLC represented KeHE Distributors, LLC, a leading pure-play natural and organic, specialty and fresh food distribution company in North America in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 7.125% senior secured notes due 2033 issued by KeHE Distributors, LLC, KeHE Finance Corp. and NextWave Distribution, Inc. Proceeds from the offering were used to partially repay amounts outstanding under the company's existing ABL facility and pay related fees and expenses....Read more
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20 May 2026

New European Commercial Mortgage Index: Q1 2026 Data

Join Winston partner Aparna Sehgal for a conversation marking the release of a new European Commercial Mortgage Index (ECMI), an industry partnership between the Bayes Business School's CRE Debt Project and FinLoop, featuring Q1 2026 data....Read more

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May 14, 2026

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DOJ Launches FOCUS Initiative, Signaling Increasingly Data-Driven Era of FCA Enforcement

On April 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division announced a new initiative called the Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics (“FOCUS”) initiative, aimed at strengthening DOJ’s engagement with so‑called “data miner” whistleblowers who bring False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam actions based on publicly available government data, rather than insider knowledge.

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May 13, 2026

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From 10-Q to 10-S: What the SEC’s Optional Semiannual Reporting Proposal Means for Public Companies

On May 5, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed optional semiannual Exchange Act reporting on a new Form 10-S, which represents a significant shift in the public company disclosure landscape.

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What Is Executive Compensation?

The term executive compensation refers to the financial payments and non-financial benefits provided to the upper level management within a business or organization. Employees who receive this type of compensation are generally presidents or vice-presidents, chief executive, financial, operating, legal, and other C-Suite executives. An executive compensation package is a group of benefits that could include stock awards, severance protection, deferred compensation, and retirement plans. SEC regulations require public companies to disclose the amount their executives are earning, plus how this amount is calculated. Some states also have executive compensation laws....Read more
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