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Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
Winston’s Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Advisory Team synthesizes the firm’s multidisciplinary experience to help boards, management teams, and investors oversee the complete spectrum of ESG-related legal and business issues.
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Winston’s Environmental Practice brings decades of experience to our clients. Chaired by Eleni Kouimelis, former assistant regional counsel with USEPA Region 5, our Environmental Practice provides comprehensive services to clients around the globe.
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Environmental Litigation & Enforcement
With today’s rapidly evolving rules of engagement, paired with the often contentious nature of environmental disputes, clients rely on Winston for our practical experience and substantive knowledge of the broad-ranging issues involved in environmental litigation, enforcement, and investigations.
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|May 9, 2025
An Am Law LOTW Shout Out-Worthy Gold Medal Victory In $Jenner
Winston, led by partners Jeffrey Steinfeld, John Schreiber, and George Mastoris, secured full dismissal of a high-profile securities class action involving hundred of millions of dollars in $Jenner memecoin trades. Plaintiffs alleged securities fraud under federal and California laws. The team was recognized in Am Law’s Litigator of the Week column for the win.
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|March 31, 2025
After an eleven-day bench trial in January 2023, the N.D. Ill. delivered a full defense verdict in March 2025 in an ERISA class action brought by participants in Segerdahl Corporation’s ESOP. The court rejected the class claims against Segerdahl, its ESOP trustee GreatBanc Trust Company, and various individual defendants including board members Bob Cronin, Rod Goldstein, and Peter Mason, alleging that Segerdahl could have sold for a significantly higher price, which would have increased post-sale distributions to the ESOP participants. Winston earned an Am Law Litigator of the Week Shout Out for this win.
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|March 18, 2025
Winston Blunts Earnout Payment
Following a bench trial in Fall 2024, a New York trial court ruled in March 2025 that Cresco Labs, Inc. was not required to pay a US$45M earnout under a merger agreement. The court found that Cresco did not receive “commercially reasonable access” to New York’s adult-use cannabis market, which was supposed to be subject only to a non-competitive application or approval process. Adopting Cresco’s arguments, the court determined that only the Office of Cannabis Management and Cannabis Control Board could decide when and how applicants access the adult-use market. The court agreed that regulators required Cresco to pay a significant one-time fee, prioritized other applicants, and had broad discretion over approvals. This win supports claims that New York’s adult-use program lacks details and clear entry paths, frustrating industry leaders’ efforts to develop a robust adult-use market.
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|October 15, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors ChIPs 2025 Global Summit
Winston & Strawn is a proud sponsor of the 2025 ChIPs Global Summit, which brings together women from all over the world working in technology, policy, private practice, corporations, government, academia, and beyond. Each year, the summit aims to advance innovation through diversity of thought and connect women through engagement opportunities.
Sponsorship
|October 9, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors the 45th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate & Securities Law Institute
Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor the 45th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate & Securities Law Institute at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL.
Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|September 23, 2025
|Less Than 1 Min Read
Winston’s Capital Markets Practice is pleased to provide you with our 2026 SEC Filing Deadline Calendar and Financial Statement Staleness Calendar.
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What Is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)?
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) refers to non-financial factors that investors and stakeholders may consider to assess company operations and performance. These criteria have come to prominence as investors, particularly “socially responsible investors,” have used ESG to screen potential investments and as a measure of risks and opportunities that could impact a company’s ability to create long-term value.
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ESG in finance can refer to, among other things, financing tools such as Green, Social, and Sustainability Bonds and similar ESG-related debt instruments, as well as the separate discipline of ESG Investing. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors as part of their analysis to identify ESG-related risks and opportunities in particular investments. ESG metrics have not historically been included in financial reporting, though companies are increasingly making disclosures in their annual report or in a standalone sustainability report, and regulatory requirements for such disclosures, including from the SEC, are expanding.
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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.