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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
With attorneys based in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Winston’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) team represents a broad range of plan sponsors and offers clients not just deal support but the full suite of employee benefit services. These include public company reporting and executive compensation, employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions, qualified retirement plans and Title I investment advice, health and welfare benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and international human resources matters. And driven by a volatile labor market, we are partnering with clients to innovate plan structure and design, including cutting-edge services such as private exchange medical benefits, employee benefits in captive insurance, and fiduciary governance best practices. With decades of experience, our EBEC team maintains strong brand recognition, with clients describing our attorneys as “superb,” “very client-friendly,” “extremely responsive and able to bring forth the right resources,” and “having an “incredible breadth of knowledge.”
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As a firm of choice for many major businesses, we represent employers, fiduciaries, boards of directors, benefit plans, and plan administrators in all aspects of ERISA litigation, including claims relating to fiduciary liability, plan investments, excessive fees, plan qualification, plan termination, reversion of excess assets, retiree medical benefits, severance and employment contract matters, tax liability matters, and retirement and welfare benefit claims.
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|April 11, 2025
Cuprina Holdings (Cayman) Limited Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering
Winston & Strawn is serving as underwriters counsel to R.F. Lafferty in connection with Cuprina Holdings, a biomedical and biotechnology company dedicated to the development and commercialization of products for the management of chronic wounds as well as cosmeceuticals for the health and beauty sector, in its announced closing of $12,000,000 initial public offering. The Offering consists of 3,000,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $4 per share, for total gross proceeds of $12,000,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses.
Experience
|November 11, 2024
A team led by Craig Godshall and Matthew Schlosser represented Court Square Capital Partners, a New York-based leading middle-market private equity company, in its entry into a definitive agreement to sell Advanced Diabetes Supply® Group, a California-based national distributor of Durable Medical Equipment specializing in diabetes supplies, to Cardinal Health for US$1.1B. This sale will allow ADSG to continue to expand its reach and enhance the way it serves its approximately 500,000 patients nationwide with advances in in-home delivery of diabetes products including continuous glucose monitoring devices and other testing supplies.
Experience
|August 14, 2024
Winston Represented Chartis in a Majority Investment from Blackstone
A team led by Charles Vargo represented Chartis, a leading healthcare advisory firm and portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, in a definitive agreement to receive a majority investment from funds managed by Blackstone. The investment will allow Chartis to extend its capabilities across its strategic, digital and technology, clinical, and financial transformation offerings for healthcare clients, as well as expand offerings for the current Chartis family of companies: HealthScape Advisors, Jarrard, and Greeley.
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Recognitions
|September 30, 2025
|1 Min Read
Winston’s Financial Restructuring Practice Wins at Global M&A Network’s 2025 Turnaround Atlas Awards
Winston & Strawn’s Financial Restructuring Practice was recognized at the 2025 Turnaround Atlas Awards hosted by Global M&A Network. As described by the organization, “Winning [these] independently governed awards equates to achieving the ‘Gold Standard of Performance’ standing in the industry, validating the firm and team leadership since the winners are selected based on ‘deals criteria’ and ‘expertise.’”
Competition Corner
|September 30, 2025
|5 Min Read
Enforcement Priorities of the FTC and DOJ—Insights from Recent Antitrust Conferences
The landscape of antitrust enforcement in the United States continues to undergo a significant transformation, as highlighted by recent remarks from leaders at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
In the Media
|September 8, 2025
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Erin Weber Highlights Upcoming Fifth Circuit Rehearing of No Surprises Act Challenge in Law360
Winston & Strawn partner Erin Weber was featured in a Law360 article discussing the Fifth Circuit’s upcoming en banc rehearing of a challenge to the No Surprises Act (NSA), which was designed to protect patients from unexpected out-of-network medical bills by establishing an arbitration process between insurers and providers. The full court agreed to rehear the case after a three-judge panel largely upheld the law in 2024. The consolidated suit, led by the Texas Medical Association, argues that the federal government unlawfully implemented a 2021 rule governing how payment amounts are calculated in the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process.
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Law Glossary
What Is Health Care Privacy Law?
Today, health care privacy law is driven by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. This federal privacy rule establishes protections for specific patient health information. Health care plans, clearinghouses, and providers are subject to the law.
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What Is Health Care Security Law?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established U.S. regulations to protect the privacy and security of individual health information. The health care security law creates these specific protections through both the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule. The Privacy Rule has set national standards for the protection of certain types of health information. The Security Rule established security standards for protecting consumers’ health information that is stored or transferred electronically. The health care Security Rule outlines the operational safeguards that organizations must implement to keep protected electronic health information secure.
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