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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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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.”
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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.
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Experience
|April 2, 2026
Business Combination and Secured Financing of Keo World and Maha Capital AB
Served as legal counsel to KEO World, Inc., a Miami-based fintech platform specializing in embedded credit and B2B digital payments, in connection with its business combination with Maha Capital AB, a publicly listed investment company on Nasdaq Stockholm. The transaction, which closed on April 2, 2026, was structured as a reverse triangular merger through which KEO World became a wholly owned subsidiary of Maha, with KEO World's parent entity receiving approximately 141 million newly issued Maha shares and nearly 49.2 million earn-out warrants as consideration. In connection with the closing, Maha also executed two directed capital raises totaling USD 27 million at SEK 16 per share and announced a planned third raise of USD 8 million ahead of a contemplated dual listing on a U.S. national securities exchange. Based on publicly available disclosures, the combined transaction has been valued at approximately USD 680 million.
Experience
|March 6, 2026
Transition Evergreen & Zencap Agreement: Winston Advises Transition Evergreen on Its Restructuring
Transition Evergreen, a company listed on Euronext Paris and dedicated to ecological transition and carbon-footprint reduction, has completed the first phase of its financial restructuring by carrying out, on February 26 and 27, 2026, the operations set out in a settlement agreement concluded with its main creditor, a private debt fund managed by Zencap Asset Management (“Zencap”).
Experience
|February 4, 2026
A Winston & Strawn deal team led by Partners Justin Levy in New York and Paul Amiss in London advised Aeron Defense, a newly formed defense platform established by Ventus Industrial Partners in partnership with GenNx360 Capital Partners and Admiralty Partners, on its acquisition of defense contracting specialists General Tool Company and Magna Machine Company.
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|May 8, 2026
|4 Min Read
IP’s Real Legal Frontier With AI Is Everything Before the Output
This article was originally published in Bloomberg Law. Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only.
Competition Corner
|April 29, 2026
|10+ Min Read
Recent settlements in DOJ antitrust enforcement actions have raised concerns on Capitol Hill and beyond about the adequacy of current safeguards governing the settlement of federal antitrust cases.
Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|April 27, 2026
|4 Min Read
SEC Grants Exemptive Relief for Shortened Equity Tender Offers
On April 16, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) Office of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) issued an exemptive order (the Order) permitting certain tender offers for equity securities to remain open for a minimum of 10 business days rather than the standard 20 business days, subject to strict conditions designed to preserve investor protections.
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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.
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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.
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