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Winston offers a comprehensive cross-practice area Public Company Advisory Group, which leverages the collective experience of our Capital Markets and Securities, M&A, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Complex Commercial and Securities Litigation, and Tax practices, to advise our clients on the wide range of issues they face as public companies. With extensive experience providing top-tier legal counsel to our clients, we have cultivated a deep reservoir of knowledge in SEC reporting and compliance, capital markets, executive compensation, and corporate governance matters, earning the trust of numerous public company clients as their legal advisors in these critical areas.
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Our capital markets and securities attorneys represent U.S. and international issuers, institutional investors, underwriters, and placement agents in a wide variety of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.
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Executive Compensation Plans & Agreements
Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) attorneys generally focus on two separate but related areas—employee benefits and executive compensation. We advise corporations, boards of directors, private equity firms, and executives on all legal, design, drafting, negotiation, and compliance aspects of executive compensation matters. We advise corporations, firms, fiduciaries, executives, administrators, governmental entities, and financial institutions on innovative and traditional employee retirement and health and welfare benefits programs. Our substantial experience and over 50 years of involvement in the EBEC field have given us a deep understanding of the evolution of benefits law and the market for executive compensation.
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Experience
|July 17, 2025
Experience
|November 8, 2024
GSR III Acquisition Corp. Announces the Closing of its $230.0 Million Initial Public Offering
Experience
|September 23, 2024
Global Engine Group Holding Limited Announces Closing of $8 Million Initial Public Offering
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Speaking Engagement
|August 21, 2025
Partner Mike Blankenship Speaks with Crypto Law Summit
Mike Blankenship, Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, will be the featured speaker during Crypto Law Summit’s Taking Crypto Companies Public: IPO Strategies in the Digital Asset Era webinar.
In the Media
|July 22, 2025
|1 Min Read
Mike Blankenship Discusses Uptick in Venture Secondaries with Chief Investment Officer
Winston & Strawn partner Mike Blankenship was quoted in a Chief Investment Officer article discussing the uptick in venture secondaries as a result of a slowdown in traditional exits like initial public offerings. As of the end of the first quarter, the U.S. VC direct secondary market was estimated at $60 billion, an increase from the estimate of $50 billion in 2024, as the asset class enters its third year of an exit drought.
Webinar
|July 17, 2025
Newly Public Companies: How to Thrive After Ringing the Bell
Going public is a major milestone, but it is only the beginning. Newly public companies must quickly adapt to a dynamic environment defined by regulatory obligations, market scrutiny, and constant stakeholder expectations. Join us for a timely webinar as our panel of industry leaders explores how companies can successfully navigate life after the IPO.
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An IPO is an initial public offering, in which shares of a private company are made available publicly for the first time, allowing a company to raise equity capital from public investors. Companies must meet specific legal, governance, and accounting requirements imposed by the securities exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct an IPO. Companies hire investment banks to market the offering, evaluate investor demand, and set the IPO price.
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A pre-IPO placement is a late-stage offering to raise funds by a company in advance of its initial public offering. The investors are typically private equity firms, hedge funds, and other large institutional investors. Due to the size of the investments and the significant risk, the investors typically receive a discount from the price in the eventual IPO. Individual investors rarely participate in pre-IPO placements. They are generally restricted to high-net-worth individuals with a sophisticated knowledge of the financial markets. For the company, the placement is a way to raise funds and offset the risk that the IPO will not be as successful as hoped.