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Thomas B. Walsh
Thomas B. Walsh
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  • Dallas
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+1 214-453-6460
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  • Dallas
Samantha Lerner
Samantha Lerner
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  • Chicago
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+1 312-558-6463
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Partner

  • Chicago
James P.  Smith III
James P. Smith III
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  • New York
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+1 212-294-4633
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  • New York
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Capabilities 85 results

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Class Actions & Group Litigation

Winston has developed a consistent record of success handling class action cases in state and federal courts. The practice is anchored by seasoned class action lawyers, many of whom have been recognized by Chambers USA and other ranking organizations as being top practitioners in their field. Our clients rely on us to steer them through class action matters by drawing on the firm’s significant experience in resolving complex litigation using creative and aggressive arguments, across a broad range of class, collective, coordinated, and mass actions, as well multidistrict litigation. We also have succeeded at trial in several class actions—a rare occurrence....Read more

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Securities, M&A & Corporate Governance Litigation

In today’s market, litigators with experience in securities, corporate governance, and M&A-related (collectively, “securities litigation”) matters need to leverage their broad experience to serve as both advocate and as counsel and strategist, focused on helping clients to overcome not just a legal issue but a collective business problem. Given the frequent interplay between things such as corporate-control transactions, public offerings, activist shareholders, the use of complex derivatives and other financial instruments, bad news impacting stock performance, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and insurance coverage, strategic and tactical litigation decisions can have a wide-ranging impact on the success of a given transaction, as well as on companies, their boards, senior management, and advisors....Read more

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Privacy & Data Security

Winston takes a strategic approach to privacy and data security, integrating our extensive capabilities across practices to provide our clients with cutting-edge privacy and data security counseling, crisis management, security incident investigation and notification management, defense of data security class action litigation and regulatory inquiries, and international data protection. Our Global Privacy & Data Security Practice features a core team of privacy professionals and is bolstered by more than 40 attorneys from a variety of other disciplines firmwide. Our team combines compliance counselors, transactional lawyers, former government regulators and federal prosecutors, seasoned investigators, and experienced litigators. Few firms can rival our in-depth, sophisticated, and integrated experience in this area....Read more

Experience 216 results

Experience

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December 3, 2025

US Tiger Securities Announced IPO

Winston & Strawn LLP is serving as U.S. securities counsel to US Tiger Securities, Inc., a full-service broker/dealer, in connection with the $10,000,000 initial public offering of SMJ International Holdings Inc., a Singapore-based premium flooring specialist. The Company priced 2,500,000 Class A ordinary shares at US$4.00 per share. The Class A ordinary shares are expected to begin trading on the NYSE American under the ticker symbol “SMJF” on December 4, 2025....Read more

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October 24, 2025

$400 Million GATX Corporation Senior Notes Offering

Represented joint book-running managers BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as underwriters' counsel, in connection with the registered public offering by GATX Corporation of $200 million of its 5.500% Senior Notes due 2035 and $200 million of its 6.050% Senior Notes due 2054. ...Read more

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October 1, 2025

AA Mission Acquisition Corp. II - Initial Public Offering

Winston & Strawn LLP represented AA Mission Acquisition Corp. II, a blank check company, in the recent closing of its $100 million Initial Public Offering (IPO). The offering consisted of 10,000,000 units priced at $10.00 per unit, before deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses. The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “YCY.U” on October 1, 2025....Read more
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January 6, 2026

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Piercing the Corporate Veil: A Case Study and Best Practices Checklist

This article was originally published in Commercial Compliance Insights. Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only....Read more

Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch

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December 31, 2025

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Section 16 Obligations Expand to Apply to Foreign Private Issuers

On December 18, 2025, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026, the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act (HFIAA) was signed into law. The HFIAA amends Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require directors and executive officers of foreign private issuers with a class of equity securities registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act to comply with the same insider reporting rules that apply to U.S. domestic issuers. Beginning in March 2026, covered FPI insiders must publicly disclose their equity ownership and transactions on the same forms used by U.S. issuers—Forms 3, 4, and 5.

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December 31, 2025

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New York FAIR Business Practices Act Bolsters State’s Consumer Protection Framework

Not quite a year after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its January 2025 report urging states to strengthen state-level consumer protections, New York enacted the Fostering Affordability and Integrity through Reasonable (FAIR) Business Practices Act into law. The FAIR Act amends New York’s general business law to prohibit unfair and abusive business acts and practices beyond deceptive conduct.

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Other Results 137 results

Law Glossary

What Is a Class Action?

A class action is a procedural device that allows one or more persons, usually plaintiffs (though federal and state procedural rules also authorize defendant classes) to file suit on behalf of a group of similarly situated persons. Federal law defines a class action as “any civil action filed under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or similar State statute or rule of judicial procedure authorizing an action to be brought by 1 or more representative persons as a class action.”  28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(1)(B), (d)(8)....Read more

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What Is the Securities Act of 1933?

The Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the “Securities Act”) was passed to ensure that investors have financial and other important information about securities that are being sold publicly. It also bans the use of fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation in the sales of securities. The Securities Act, which is also referred to as the “truth in securities” law, is part of a legislative effort to govern and oversee the securities industry....Read more

Law Glossary

What Is Data Security Law?

Though the U.S. has not passed legislation dealing solely with data security law, organizations are expected to safeguard sensitive information and establish privacy policies. Legislation addressing specific types of sensitive data is found within various U.S. laws, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act....Read more
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