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Financial services companies in the financial technology (FinTech) space are contributing to rapid technological advances and innovation in the development, offering, and delivery of core financial products and services. Winston’s FinTech, Banking & Payments attorneys support these companies throughout the entire FinTech business life cycle, from proof of concept through maturity, including federal and state licensing and registration, regulatory compliance and risk management, structured finance, M&A, and private equity, intellectual property (IP) management, and supervision and enforcement. Our clients include banks, FinTech companies, private equity and other investors, money services businesses, trust companies, consumer finance companies, investment advisers, and other financial firms.
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Our structured finance group is widely recognized as a leader, encompassing Esoteric Finance, Residential Asset Finance and Securitization, and CLOs/Fund Finance. Positioned prominently at the forefront of the industry, our team boasts extensive experience across a broad spectrum of assets, with a particular focus on bespoke structures and emerging and/or “esoteric” assets, including residential and commercial PACE, RMBS, and CMBS; aircraft, vessel, and railcar finance; FinTech and marketplace lending; CLOs; specialty finance; consumer and business lending; energy structured finance (including solar finance and reserve-based finance); derivatives and structured products; lease and operating asset finance; trade receivables; litigation settlement financing; and life settlements.
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Financial Innovation & Regulation
Winston’s Financial Innovation & Regulation attorneys routinely counsel financial services, digital assets, and other clients on complex banking, crypto, FinTech, consumer financial, and securities matters. Many of our team members previously held positions as in-house counsel at global financial institutions and served in positions at government agencies, which gives us considerable experience in helping our clients obtain innovative, effective, and efficient solutions.
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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
|July 24, 2025
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Linkhome Holdings Inc., a leading AI-powered U.S. real estate platform, in connection with its upsized $6 million initial public offering. The offering consisted of 1,500,000 shares of common stock priced at $4.00 per share, and the shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker “LHAI” on July 24, 2025.
Experience
|April 2, 2024
StoneBridge Acquisition Corporation Closes Business Combination with DigiAsia
Winston & Strawn represented Stonebridge Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: APAC), an Asia-Pacific-focused publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in connection with the closing of its business combination agreement with DigiAsia Bios Pte Ltd., Indonesia’s Embeddable "Fintech-as-a-Service" company. Its ordinary shares and warrants will trade on Nasdaq under the symbols “FAAS” and “FAASW” respectively, starting April 3, 2024.
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In the Media
|April 14, 2026
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Konstantinos Adamos Discusses Crypto Regulation with IFLR
Winston & Strawn of counsel Konstantinos Adamos was featured in a IFLR article where he discussed his recent move to the firm. Konstantinos previously spent more than five years as head of legal for cryptoassets at the global financial technology company Revolut, where he played a crucial role in the company’s FCA registration in the UK and guided the company in achieving its crypto license issued by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tax Impacts
|March 20, 2026
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IRS Extends Digital Asset Reporting Relief Through 2026 Under Notice 2026-20
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) extended the temporary relief for digital asset–specific identification rules with the release of Notice 2026‑20, which builds on last year’s Notice 2025‑7 by continuing to permit taxpayers to make adequate identification of broker‑custodied digital assets on their own books and records.
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FinTech (Financial Technology) is a term used to categorize technology-driven solutions to traditional banking products. FinTech aims to make financial services more accessible to consumers.
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