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Privacy: Regulated Personal Information (RPI)
Winston’s Regulated Personal Information (RPI) Practice offers seamlessly integrated counseling and litigation services to companies looking for practical and solution-oriented assistance navigating the compliance, regulatory, and private class action enforcement risks presented by the emerging patchwork of complex (and often conflicting) privacy laws in the United States and beyond.
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Brands across key sectors turn to Winston litigators to defend their reputations in advertising class actions, competitor disputes, and investigations. With litigators based in the U.S.’s busiest jurisdictions—including courts in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas—we have deep experience and prowess in handling some of the most high-profile and business-essential advertising cases in recent history. These disputes have involved false advertising; unfair competition, unfair business practices, and unjust enrichment; copyright, trade name, and service mark infringement; consumer-protection claims; and violations of the Lanham Act.
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Class Actions & Group Litigation
Winston has developed a consistent record of success handling class action cases in state and federal courts. The practice is anchored by seasoned class action lawyers, many of whom have been recognized by Chambers USA and other ranking organizations as being top practitioners in their field. Our clients rely on us to steer them through class action matters by drawing on the firm’s significant experience in resolving complex litigation using creative and aggressive arguments, across a broad range of class, collective, coordinated, and mass actions, as well multidistrict litigation. We also have succeeded at trial in several class actions—a rare occurrence.
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Experience
|July 11, 2025
Winston Represented South Reach Networks in Sale to Blue Owl
Winston represented Intermetro Fiber, LLC (d/b/a South Reach Networks (SRN)), a Florida-based fiber optic infrastructure provider, in its sale to a fund managed by affiliates Blue Owl Capital (Blue Owl). This acquisition will allow Blue Owl to provide incremental scale and deepen Blue Owl's existing fiber capabilities, adding major new builds across the network, and scale the business to meet the growing need for additional fiber optic network capabilities across SRN's dark and lit fiber optic infrastructure network which spans 370 miles from Jacksonville to Miami.
Experience
|December 16, 2024
Represented Minto Communities, LLC in the Sale of Land in Palm Beach County, Florida
A team of Winston & Strawn attorneys, led by Rafael Aguilar, represented Minto PBLH, LLC, an affiliate of Minto Communities, LLC, a leading homebuilder in the United States, in connection with the sale of a parcel of land located in the City of Westlake, Palm Beach County, Florida. The purchaser intends to develop and construct a mixed-use commercial building on the property.
Experience
|December 11, 2024
Minto Communities, LLC’s Exchange of Land in Palm Beach County, Florida
Winston & Strawn represented Minto PBLH, LLC, an affiliate of Minto Communities, LLC, a real estate company that develops and constructs master-planned residential communities, in connection with a land exchange transaction in the City of Westlake, Palm Beach County, Florida with an affiliate of GL Homes.
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Sponsorship
|November 20, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors 2025 Smart Business Dealmakers South Florida M&A Conference
Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor the upcoming Smart Business Dealmakers South Florida M&A Conference. The conference brings together hundreds of local dealmakers, including middle-market CEOs, top investors and lenders, and leading M&A advisers.
Direct Sellers Update: Regulation, Law & Policy
|September 16, 2025
|6 Min Read
The FTC Trades Blanket Non-Compete Bans for Case-by-Case Enforcement
Direct Sellers, time to let out a sigh of relief. On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission officially dropped its appeal of a federal court’s decision striking down the FTC’s rule banning non-competes.
In the Media
|August 29, 2025
|1 Min Read
Enrique Martin Discusses Miami Office Growth with Daily Business Review
In a recent interview with Daily Business Review, Miami Office Managing Partner, Enrique Martin, detailed the success and growth of Winston's Miami office. He emphasized that from the beginning, building the right culture was a top priority. That commitment to collegiality and collaboration has shaped the office’s trajectory.
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Winston & Strawn’s Miami office opened in 2022 and represents the firm’s largest expansion in several years. Located in the heart of the city’s Financial District, the office launched with a strong team of transactional and litigation partners from prestigious law firms operating in South Florida. Our Miami office leverages the area’s status as a critical nexus point for banking and international trade with the United States, Europe, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Our attorneys have the cultural fluency and local knowledge necessary to work seamlessly with international clients, particularly those with ties to Latin America.
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What Is a Manufacturing Defect?
In the product liability context, a manufacturing defect claim arises when a plaintiff alleges that a mistake occurred during the manufacturing process of a particular product that made it different from its intended design. Unlike a design defect claim, which concerns the inherent dangers of a product’s design, manufacturing defect claims focus on deviations from the product’s intended specifications.