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We routinely help clients protect and commercialize their intellectual property (IP) assets and provide due diligence on complex technology and IP transactions. We negotiate and draft IP licenses and transfers; provide strategic guidance on optimal structures for IP and IT transactions; and evaluate copyright, trademark, and patent portfolios and provide related due diligence activities in connection with IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, licenses, and other corporate transactions.
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Brands across key sectors turn to Winston litigators to defend their reputations in advertising class actions, competitor disputes, and investigations. With litigators based in the U.S.’s busiest jurisdictions—including courts in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas—we have deep experience and prowess in handling some of the most high-profile and business-essential advertising cases in recent history. These disputes have involved false advertising; unfair competition, unfair business practices, and unjust enrichment; copyright, trade name, and service mark infringement; consumer-protection claims; and violations of the Lanham Act.
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|July 11, 2025
Winston Represented South Reach Networks in Sale to Blue Owl
Winston represented Intermetro Fiber, LLC (d/b/a South Reach Networks (SRN)), a Florida-based fiber optic infrastructure provider, in its sale to a fund managed by affiliates Blue Owl Capital (Blue Owl). This acquisition will allow Blue Owl to provide incremental scale and deepen Blue Owl's existing fiber capabilities, adding major new builds across the network, and scale the business to meet the growing need for additional fiber optic network capabilities across SRN's dark and lit fiber optic infrastructure network which spans 370 miles from Jacksonville to Miami.
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|November 13, 2024
Winston and Strawn Paris represented Astorg, a leading Pan-European private equity firm in connection with the signing of a binding agreement to acquire a majority stake in Redslim (the “Company”) from its Founders, Eric Bensimon, Alberto Alcaniz, Soren Altmann and Patric Mezei (the “Founders”), who will re-invest significantly in the business. Redslim provides data management services, leveraging a proprietary technology platform, and focusing on Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) and Consumer Healthcare (CHC) segments. Through this partnership, Astorg will support the Company’s growth and international expansion, collaborating closely with the Founders and the management team.
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|September 25, 2024
Winston represents the founding partners of EDL in a new LBO
Winston & Strawn Paris is advising the founding partners of EDL in the sale of a majority stake to Dentressangle Participations.
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Winston’s AI Monthly Recap - October 2025
Winston’s AI Top 10 summarizes the latest AI developments in the legal industry.
Winston’s Environmental Law Update
|October 30, 2025
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E15 Gasoline: Legal Landscape and Recent Legislative Updates
The EPA establishes a national standard for gasoline volatility (Reid vapor pressure, or RVP) via section 211(h) of the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds.
False Claims Act Playbook
|October 30, 2025
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On October 15, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska (the Court) dismissed Pharos Capital Group and its related investment funds (Pharos Capital) from a qui tam or whistleblower suit brought under the antiretaliation provision of the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)) (the FCA), against Pharos Capital and Charter Health Care Group (Charter), a portfolio company of Pharos Capital.
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Law Glossary
An original work of authorship that is fixed in a tangible form and exhibits at least a minimal amount of creativity may be protected by U.S. copyright law. Under the law, a copyright owner has various exclusive rights to use the protected work, including the right to make copies of it; create derivative works based on it; and distribute it to the public. For certain types of works, the copyright owner also has the exclusive right to publicly perform or publicly display the work.
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What Is the Copyright Royalty Board?
The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) is a three-judge panel that functions as an independent unit within the Library of Congress. It performs the duties specified in the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act. The Act established statutory licenses that let approved parties utilize certain types of copyrighted works by paying a set royalty, without having to request an individual copyright license from each rights-holder. The CRB sets, and periodically adjusts, the rates and terms of the statutory licenses, and can also make determinations on the distribution of statutory license royalties collected by the U.S. Copyright Office. For example, the judges can determine, for a five-year period, the rates musical performers receive when their works are played via digital services. When licensors and licensees cannot reach rate agreements on their own, the CRB hears testimony from the various parties and then sets the rates. CRB Judges serve six-year terms. The first CRB judges were appointed by the Librarian of Congress in 2006.
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Passed in 1998 and implemented in 2000, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) updated U.S. law to meet the requirements of international copyright treaties. The DMCA addresses challenging issues relating to uses of copyrighted material in the digital environment: it limits the liability of online service providers that meet certain conditions, while providing certain procedures for addressing online infringement; it prohibits circumvention of digital technologies that control or limit access to copyrighted works; and it prohibits the removal or modification of certain types of copyright management information contained in protected works. Title II of the DMCA (sometimes also referred to as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, or OCILLA) is codified at Section 512, Title 17, of the United States Code.