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Financial Services Transactions & Regulatory
Winston’s attorneys routinely advise clients with respect to all major banking, FinTech, broker-dealer, investment adviser, and securities laws, and we bring considerable financial services regulatory experience to these matters. Our knowledge and experience enable us to represent clients effectively and efficiently in this current environment of change and evolution.
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Winston & Strawn serves as the primary legal counsel to more than 200 venture capital fund managers. As we have one of the most active venture capital fund practices among major law firms, we are uniquely positioned to understand the latest market trends for venture capital funds, which allows us to advise our clients on terms that are market for their respective fund(s)’ size, type, and vintage, as well as market terms for agreements entered into in connection with our clients’ businesses and investments. A large and growing client base gives us the opportunity to work on a wide range of funds and transactions and has enabled us to build a team of legal professionals with deep knowledge of the venture capital industry.
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Winston’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice is one of the most active and highly regarded in the United States per Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation US, and Best Law Firms®, among other ranking organizations. Our team features some of the country’s best IP lawyers, attorneys with the technical abilities to litigate and try highly complex IP disputes, and technical lawyers who provide critical advisory services.
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|April 23, 2025
Voyager Acquisition Corp. and VERAXA Biotech Announce Business Combination
Experience
|February 10, 2025
US$600 million Total Play Telecomunicaciones S.A.P.I. de C.V. Offer to Exchange Senior Notes
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Recognitions
|May 1, 2025
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Winston & Strawn partner Kathi Vidal merited a place on World IP Review’s 2025 Diversity & Inclusion Top 100 list in the Influential Women in IP category. This annual list highlights honorees’ “dedication and commitment to driving meaningful change in the IP community.” Winners were selected through an in-depth evaluation of the nominees’ accomplishments carried out by World IP Review’s (WIPR) in-house team.
Speaking Engagement
|April 22, 2025
Partner Angela Rohman Russo will speak at the Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) 2025 Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances program.
Recognitions
|April 21, 2025
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John Schreiber Named to Los Angeles Times' 2025 Law Firm Visionaries List
Winston & Strawn partner and Los Angeles Litigation Practice Chair John Schreiber merited a place on Los Angeles Times Studios’ 2025 Law Firm Visionaries list. This annual series highlights California-based Legal Visionaries who are affecting positive change and have consistently demonstrated their abilities as strong leaders.
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The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), enacted in 1988, prohibits videotape service providers from disclosing a customer’s personal information without express consent. Originally, the term “video tape service provider” targeted brick-and-mortar video rental stores as the statute was created in response to the public disclosure of a Supreme Court nominee's rental history.
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Launched in 2013, Winston & Strawn’s Silicon Valley office is home to nationally recognized attorneys that draw clients from Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. Led by Kelly Hunsaker—who has deep roots in Silicon Valley spanning nearly three decades—the office draws from the firm’s deep bench strength and global network of resources to serve clients in a variety of industries, including the semiconductor, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, life sciences, and pharmaceutical sectors. The office’s intellectual property attorneys have litigated extensively in all the top national patent litigation venues, as well as before the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeals Board of the USPTO.
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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.