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As a firm of choice for many major businesses, we represent employers, fiduciaries, boards of directors, benefit plans, and plan administrators in all aspects of ERISA litigation, including claims relating to fiduciary liability, plan investments, excessive fees, plan qualification, plan termination, reversion of excess assets, retiree medical benefits, severance and employment contract matters, tax liability matters, and retirement and welfare benefit claims.
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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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|June 30, 2024
Winston Represented Sloan Investment Management in its Sale to EP Wealth Advisors
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|November 9, 2023
Winston advised Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) in the first issuance of Sustainability Bonds in Colombia
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|October 19, 2023
Nxu, Inc. Announces Closing of $3.0 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
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Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|May 8, 2025
|3 Min Read
SEC Approves First U.S. “Green” Stock Exchange
On April 1, 2025, the SEC approved the launch of the Green Impact Exchange (the GIX), which will be the first sustainability-focused stock exchange in the United States. Trading on the GIX is expected to begin in early 2026. The exchange aims to provide a marketplace for environmentally responsible companies and attract investors committed to advancing environmental sustainability.
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|May 6, 2025
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Winston & Strawn Launches Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions Group
CHICAGO/NEW YORK—May 6, 2025— Winston & Strawn announced today the launch of its Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions Group, a multidisciplinary team that expands on the firm’s longstanding work delivering strategic counsel across the full spectrum of private equity secondaries market activity, including GP-led continuation fund and other sponsor-side fund restructuring transactions, and traditional LP secondaries.
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|May 5, 2025
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Acting Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Director Coke Stewart was sworn in on January 20, 2025, rescinded the prior Director’s discretionary denial guidance on February 28, 2025, and implemented new guidance and a new discretionary denial briefing schedule between March 24 and 26, 2025. See here. Decisions on requests submitted under the new process are anticipated to start rolling out soon. The Patent Office reported receiving more than 40 requests for discretionary denial under the new process as of April 17. The process gives petitioners one month to respond to the requests and the PTAB another month to provide a decision.
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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.
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Generative AI tools can create new content, such as text, computer code, images, audio, sound, and video, in response to a user’s prompt, often in the form of a short written description of the desired output. Generative AI tools are based on machine learning, trained using enormous amounts of data.[1] Generative AI tools are built on a system of inputs and outputs. First, the tool goes through a machine learning period whereby it is trained to generate predictive models and creative outputs through a large data set, often varied and diverse but tailored to the goal of the tool (i.e., customer service, generating scientific or marketing models, etc.). For in-house tools, this can be done with the company’s own data; for larger tools such as ChatGPT, this is done with the creator’s data set.[2] Once the tool has been trained, the individual user “inputs” a short prompt for the tool to synthesize and produce an “output.” Inputs are often retained on the servers controlled by the company that supports the tool, for monitoring of the tool’s performance and, in some cases, continued learning. The “outputs” are created by combining the machine learning during the training period with the inputs to produce an output.[3]
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“Baby HSR” or “mini HSR” laws refer to state-level premerger notification and reporting requirements that resemble the federal Hart-Scott-Rodino Act but tend to apply to smaller transactions valued below the federal notification thresholds. These laws, often focused on specific industries like healthcare, aim to enhance state-level antitrust oversight by requiring companies to notify state authorities of mergers or acquisitions that could impact local competition. Filing obligations, timing, and fees vary by state, with some requiring detailed disclosures about the transaction’s competitive impact within the state. State authorities can investigate, challenge, or impose conditions on transactions even if they are cleared federally. Winston’s Baby HSR survey provides buyers and sellers with a resource to quickly start assessing which states may have premerger notification requirements that impact their transactions.