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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....Read more

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

With attorneys based in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Winston’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) team represents a broad range of plan sponsors and offers clients not just deal support but the full suite of employee benefit services. These include public company reporting and executive compensation, employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions, qualified retirement plans and Title I investment advice, health and welfare benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and international human resources matters. And driven by a volatile labor market, we are partnering with clients to innovate plan structure and design, including cutting-edge services such as private exchange medical benefits, employee benefits in captive insurance, and fiduciary governance best practices. With decades of experience, our EBEC team maintains strong brand recognition, with clients describing our attorneys as “superb,” “very client-friendly,” “extremely responsive and able to bring forth the right resources,” and “having an “incredible breadth of knowledge.”...Read more

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Corporate Governance

Our attorneys have extensive experience counseling U.S. and multinational public companies across a range of industries in all aspects of corporate governance, securities, and compliance matters. We advise public companies, boards of directors and their committees, and senior executives on the corporate governance and compliance matters that public companies and their leadership confront—from board structuring and succession planning to shareholder activism and SEC regulation. Drawing on our experience as seasoned counselors, we keep clients abreast of evolving trends and best practices to proactively manage any governance or compliance issues. We have assembled one of the most experienced teams of any law firm in the country that’s counseling public companies....Read more

Experience 31 results

Experience

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January 9, 2025

Delaware Court Sees Though Plaintiffs’ Poorly Disguised Derivative Claims

Experience

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May 10, 2024

Winston Establishes the Enforceability of Keepwell Bonds in Significant Hong Kong Court of Appeal Victory

Winston’s London Restructuring practice scores a significant win on appeal for Hong Kong and BVI liquidator claimants in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) based Peking University Founders Group Limited (PUFG) insolvency. ...Read more

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January 24, 2024

Winston Represents Grupo Calleja in its US$1.2 billion Acquisition of Almacenes Éxito

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Insights & News 2,791 results

Sponsorship

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August 5, 2025

Winston & Strawn Sponsors the Private Equity Chicago Forum

Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor both the Private Markets Secondaries Meeting East and the 4th Private Equity Chicago Forum. This forum brings together senior executives from leading pension funds, endowments, foundations, consultants, family offices, and private equity firms to discuss the latest trends shaping private market allocations, fund selection, value creation, and strategic partnerships....Read more

Direct Sellers Update: Regulation, Law & Policy

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August 4, 2025

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9 Min Read

Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement in the Direct-Selling Industry: A Clearer Look

With renewed enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act against illegal price discrimination looming, direct-selling companies should reassess their pricing models. The FTC has made clear that tiered wholesale pricing, which gives higher-ranked distributors more favorable terms than their lower-ranked counterparts, can create significant legal risks under antitrust laws.

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July 31, 2025

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IRS Delivers: Large Corporate Taxpayers Can Bid Adieu to AOFs and Welcome Better Access to ADR Programs

On July 25, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service) released an Interim Guidance Memorandum dated July 23, 2025 (the IGM) that i) eliminates the Acknowledgement of Facts (AOF) Information Document Requests (IDR) from Large Business & International Division (LB&I) examinations, ii) provides updates on the changes to the Fast Track Settlements (FTS) pilot program, and iii) clarifies the applicability of Accelerated Issue Resolution (AIR) to Large Corporate Compliance (LCC) cases.

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Law Glossary

What Is Executive Compensation?

The term executive compensation refers to the financial payments and non-financial benefits provided to the upper level management within a business or organization. Employees who receive this type of compensation are generally presidents or vice-presidents, chief executive, financial, operating, legal, and other C-Suite executives. An executive compensation package is a group of benefits that could include stock awards, severance protection, deferred compensation, and retirement plans. SEC regulations require public companies to disclose the amount their executives are earning, plus how this amount is calculated. Some states also have executive compensation laws....Read more

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What Is a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)?

A temporary restraining order (TRO) is a legal document issued by a judge before trial that forces or prevents an action for a specified time frame. During court cases that involve trademark infringement or the use of a trade secret, a TRO can halt patent, copyright, or trademark infringement in the short term. It can offer relief in various situations, such as to prevent the sharing of a business secret or an unfair competition practice, until a court hearing on a preliminary injunction can be held. A TRO petition is an emergency request for a state or federal court to take immediate action based on submitted evidence....Read more

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