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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 global 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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|August 18, 2025
Winston Represented Amphenol in Definitive Agreement to Acquire Trexon
Winston represented Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH), one of the world’s largest designers, manufacturers, and marketers of electrical, electronic, and fiber optic connectors and systems, as well as coaxial and high-speed specialty cables, in its definitive agreement to acquire Trexon, a leading provider of high-reliability interconnect and cable assemblies primarily serving the defense market. The acquisition is valued at approximately US$1B, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. Amphenol will finance the transaction with cash on hand and expects to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Experience
|June 3, 2025
Represented NTE Mobility Partners Segments 3 LLC (NTE3), the concession company operating, maintaining, and collecting tolls on the North Tarrant Express Segments 3A, 3B, and 3C Facility in Fort Worth, Texas (the Project), in connection with a senior financing consisting of approximately $457 million of senior forward delivery bonds. NTE3 will issue these bonds in three series, the proceeds of which will be applied, among other things, to the repayment of a portion of existing debt related to the construction of the Project.
Experience
|February 13, 2025
RF Acquisition Corp. Closes Business Combination with GCL Asia to Go Public
Winston & Strawn represented RF Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in its business combination with Grand Centrex Limited, one of Asia's leading video game distributors and publishers. The combined company, GCL, is now listed on Nasdaq under the reserved ticker symbol "GCL.” The transaction gives GCL approximately $1.2 billion in pre-transaction equity value. GCL's existing shareholders will roll over 100% of the equity and retain a majority of the Combined Company's outstanding shares, while GCL also designated a majority of the Combined Company's board of directors. The transaction includes a minimum cash condition of $25,000,000 and resulted in GCL receiving gross proceeds of approximately $42.9 million (assuming no further redemptions by RF Acquisition shareholders). RF Acquisition and GCL have agreed to work together to pursue commitments for a private placement of equity, debt, or other alternative financings of up to $20 million. GCL expects to use proceeds from the transaction to accelerate its game publishing and IP management business, alongside its marketing reach with AAA/AA PC game titles.
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Seminar/CLE
|September 18, 2025
Winston Hosts New York Financial Services Symposium
Winston’s Financial Services Industry Group is pleased to host our inaugural Financial Services Symposium in our New York office on Thursday, September 18, 2025. This event will include a half-day of programming led by top industry thought leaders. Below you will find details about each panel.
Recognitions
|September 11, 2025
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Winston Partners Featured as Leaders in Law in The Secured Lender
Winston & Strawn partners Jordan Klein and Jason Bennett have been recognized in the September issue of The Secured Lender as Leaders in Law. This annual feature highlights the indispensable role attorneys play in shaping the secured finance industry—serving not only as advisors, but also as architects of the frameworks that allow businesses to access and deploy capital.
In the Media
|September 9, 2025
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Winston & Strawn partner Chris Gavin spoke with Private Debt Investor to provide his insights into the evolving regulatory landscape surrounding residential transition loans (RTLs). With the ongoing challenges of building enough homes to keep pace with the demand in the U.S. housing market, private lenders are turning to residential transition loans, short-term bridge, construction, or renovation financing for real estate investors, to find new opportunities in the complex housing market.
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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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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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Founded in 2008, Winston & Strawn’s Charlotte, North Carolina office of 25+ lawyers, includes firm leaders such as Kobi Kennedy Brinson—represents many major national and international companies headquartered in the city. Our Charlotte office 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.