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Winston takes a strategic approach to privacy and data security, integrating our extensive capabilities across practices to provide our clients with cutting-edge privacy and data security counseling, crisis management, security incident investigation and notification management, defense of data security class action litigation and regulatory inquiries, and international data protection. Our Global Privacy & Data Security Practice features a core team of privacy professionals and is bolstered by more than 40 attorneys from a variety of other disciplines firmwide. Our team combines compliance counselors, transactional lawyers, former government regulators and federal prosecutors, seasoned investigators, and experienced litigators. Few firms can rival our in-depth, sophisticated, and integrated experience in this area.
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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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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
|November 19, 2025
Blockfusion Enters into Business Combination with Blue Acquisition Corp.
Winston & Strawn LLP represents Blockfusion, the owner-operator of a strategically located, clean-energy-powered data center, in its announced business combination with Blue Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. The transaction attributes a pre-money equity value of approximately USD 450 million to Blockfusion and would result in Blockfusion becoming a publicly traded company upon listing.
Experience
|September 22, 2025
Winston Paris advised the founders and shareholders of Bylaw, on its acquisition by Septeo
Founded in 2019 by Adrien Aboudaram and Tuan Ardouin, Bylaw has developed next-generation AI technology to automate the processing of legal and financial documents. With a team primarily dedicated to R&D, the legaltech company aims to become the leading AI reference for regulated professions.
Experience
|July 31, 2025
Nscale Forms $1 Billion AI Data Center Joint Venture with Aker
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. in connection with the formation of a 50/50 joint venture with Aker ASA to develop Stargate Norway, a $1 billion AI data center project in partnership with OpenAI. The facility will be located near Narvik, Northern Norway, and will be powered entirely by renewable hydropower.
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Webinar
|December 17, 2025
Privacy Problems Webinar Series
Join the Winston & Strawn Global Privacy and Data Security Practice team for a conversation on emerging privacy trends to have on your radar as we approach the New Year. Topics will include a discussion of strategies companies can take to protect themselves against a wave of burgeoning claims under California’s Shine the Light Law, recent trends in wiretap lawsuits arising from online website monitoring and email tracking practices (hint: looking at you, Florida), and insights on why companies should pay close attention to commercial email subject lines sent to Washington recipients.
Pro Bono In Action
|November 24, 2025
|2 Min Read
Winston Safeguards the Medical Privacy Rights of Transgender Teens in Texas
A multi-office Winston team successfully opposed the Texas Attorney General’s unprecedented attempt to use nonparty civil discovery to secure the private medical records of 30+ transgender teenagers.
Press Release
|November 24, 2025
|5 Min Read
Winston & Strawn Names 18 New Partners Globally
Chicago – November 24, 2025 – Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that 18 of the firm’s lawyers have been elevated to partner.
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Law Glossary
What Is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Law?
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law is an act, applied across the Union, which directs data privacy. The GDPR law is designed to protect the data privacy of all EU citizens and guide organizational approaches to handling data, as well as transferring it across borders. Under the GDPR, breach notification is mandatory within 72 hours if the breach is likely to “result in a risk for the rights and freedoms of individuals.” The GDPR applies to organizations within the EU as well as those outside of the EU if they offer goods or services to European citizens. It also applies to organizations that monitor the behavior of data subjects online.
Law Glossary
What Is Cross-Border Data Protection Law?
A cross-border data protection law involves the safe movement of electronic, personal data around the world. The European Union currently has a cross-border data protection law called the General Data Protection Regulation, which replaces the EU’s Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.
Law Glossary
What Is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an executive agency of the United States under the direct authority of the President of the United States. The EPA’s mission is to protect people and the environment from significant health risks. The EPA is responsible for developing, maintaining, and enforcing environmental regulations and policies, including regulating the manufacturing, processing, distribution, and use of chemicals and other pollutants. EPA enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures.