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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.
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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.
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In a global business and legal environment marked by change, U.S. and multinational companies, financial institutions, investors, and entrepreneurs face demanding challenges that significantly impact their businesses. Transactions partners advise clients around the globe to navigate these challenges, adapt to regulatory change, and move transactions to the finish line.
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Experience
|January 9, 2025
Delaware Court Sees Though Plaintiffs’ Poorly Disguised Derivative Claims
Winston received an Am Law Litigator of the Week Shout Out for securing a ruling knocking out US$300M in claims against the former board of managers of Verano Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Verano Holdings Corp., one of the country’s largest publicly traded cannabis companies. Delaware Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster dismissed a lawsuit brought by former minority shareholders in Verano Holdings finding the plaintiffs lost standing to bring such derivative claims after the combination that resulted in the public company took hold. The judge issued a dismissal with prejudice in an oral ruling from the bench.
Experience
|November 23, 2024
Winston and co-counsel helped the three major credit bureaus—Equifax, TransUnion and Experian—defeat claims they colluded with credit score provider FICO to cause consumers to overpay for credit scores. U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang in the N. D. Ill. found that the plaintiffs hadn’t adequately alleged that the credit bureaus entered into a conspiracy to further FICO’s alleged monopoly and dismissed the claims against them with prejudice. Winston’s successful defense of Equifax was recognized by American Lawyer in its Litigator of the Week column on December 3, 2024.
Experience
|October 15, 2024
Winston represented Specialty Building Products, LLC, a portfolio company of Winston client TJC, L.P., in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $510,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.750% senior secured notes due 2029 issued by Specialty Building Products Holdings, LLC and SBP Finance Corp. In connection with the notes offering, Winston also represented Specialty Building Products in connection with a $215,000,000 incremental term loan B add-on facility and the amendment and extension of an asset-based revolving credit facility. Proceeds from the offering were used, together with the proceeds of the incremental term loan B add-on facility, to refinance existing debt securities. Specialty Building Products, LLC is a leading distributor of specialty building products in North America.
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Webinar
|December 17, 2025
Privacy Problems Webinar Series
Join the Winston & Strawn Global Privacy and Data Security Practice team for a conversation on emerging privacy trends to have on your radar as we approach the New Year. Topics will include a discussion of strategies companies can take to protect themselves against a wave of burgeoning claims under California’s Shine the Light Law, recent trends in wiretap lawsuits arising from online website monitoring and email tracking practices (hint: looking at you, Florida), and insights on why companies should pay close attention to commercial email subject lines sent to Washington recipients.
Recognitions
|December 9, 2025
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Winston & Strawn partner Jeffrey Kessler has been named to Sports Business Journal’s Influence 125 - The Most Influential People in Sports Business For The Past 25 Years. This list is a prestigious tribute to the trailblazers who didn’t just keep pace with change, they set it. From pioneering founders and high-stakes dealmakers to brand architects and media moguls, these 125 have reshaped the multibillion-dollar sports economy across every sector: sponsorship, tech, media, venues, events, agencies, and leagues. Sports Business Journal has chronicled the rapid evolution of the sports industry for nearly three decades, an era defined by bold visionaries, transformational leadership and the relentless pursuit of innovation.
Tax Impacts
|December 4, 2025
|3 Min Read
On December 1, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two significant pieces of bipartisan legislation aimed at reforming tax administration and judicial review: the Fair and Accountable IRS Reviews (FAIR) Act (H.R. 5346) and the Tax Court Improvement Act (H.R. 5349).
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ESG, or environmental, social, and governance (ESG), Investing refers to the making of investment decisions by environmental and/or socially conscious investors based on a set of standards or requirements for a company’s behavior. Environmental criteria consider how a company protects the environment, including corporate policies addressing climate change. Social criteria examine how a company values and supports relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and its local communities. Governance deals with, among other things, a company’s leadership, executive compensation, and shareholder rights.
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Form 8-K is a form required to be filed by registrants with the SEC when certain significant or “material” events occur, such as mergers and acquisitions, changes in management, and director resignations. The form generally must be filed with four business days of the event triggering disclosure.
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Sanctions are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience to the law, rules, and regulations. Sanctions can be used by one country or a group of countries against another country, organization, or individual. The implementation of sanctions is meant to encourage a change in behavior, punish non-compliance with international norms or laws, or achieve specific policy objectives. There are various types of sanctions, including economic or financial, diplomatic, military, or environmental. Sanctions can also take on several forms, such as penalties, fines, or restrictions.