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Keeping a deal moving forward can be challenging. Our 100+ Finance attorneys help clients maintain momentum with a commitment to understanding the challenges, risks, and opportunities they face. Our team has developed great insights through the representation of financial institutions and corporate enterprises of all types and sizes in the finance industry. We have a well-rounded finance practice, with dedicated teams that advise banks, credit funds, alternative capital providers, sponsors, and corporations on a wide range of transactions including debt finance (leveraged, asset-based, and reserve-based lending), fund finance, structured finance, derivatives and structured products, project finance, and transportation finance.
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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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Winston’s Debt Finance team focuses on all aspects of leveraged finance and asset-based lending both internationally and domestically. Our clients include leading international investment banks, commercial banks, direct lenders, credit funds, insurance companies, CLOs, and other institutional investors, as well as private equity funds, hedge funds, and corporations.
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|February 15, 2024
Winston Closes Financing of the Landmark San Juan Bay Cruise Terminals Project
Experience
|February 6, 2024
Winston Represents KeHE Distributors, LLC in a $750.0 Million Senior Secured Notes Offering
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Sponsorship
|May 15, 2024
Winston & Strawn Sponsors EF Hutton Annual Global Conference
Winston & Strawn is sponsoring the EF Hutton Annual Global Conference, which will feature innovative public and private companies from multiple industries in a close-knit, personalized setting. Instead of general presentations, the event adopts a one-on-one format. Key executives from public and private companies will share their distinctive stories with a diverse audience consisting of institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, corporate clients, and select press members.
Sponsorship
|May 13, 2024
Winston & Strawn Sponsors SFNet’s International Lending Conference 2024
Winston & Strawn is proud to once again sponsor the Secured Finance Network’s International Lending Conference which takes place from May 13-15, 2024, in London. The event brings together leading players on the international lending scheme and will address issues around private equity, private debt, syndications, restructurings, technology in ABL, and more.
Sponsorship
|April 29, 2024
Winston & Strawn Sponsors the 2024 ACG DealMAX Conference
Winston & Strawn is a proud sponsor of the 2024 ACG DealMAX Conference, which will be held at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 29 - May 1, 2024.
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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.
Law Glossary
The full name of the Dodd-Frank Act is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It was passed in 2010 to regulate the financial market and protect consumers from risky financial practices. The legislation and its rules cover the following:
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Celebrating its 15thanniversary, Winston & Strawn’s Charlotte, North Carolina office is located in what CNBC has named the best state for business two years in a row. Through significant lateral hires and strategic associate recruitment, our team of 20+ attorneys—more than half of which are women and include firm leaders such as Kobi Kennedy Brinson—represent many major national and international companies headquartered in the city. Our team also provides legal services to all of the top ten financial services companies in the U.S., which aligns with Charlotte’s reputation as the second-largest banking center in the country.