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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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|October 10, 2025
Winston Advises Vistria Affiliate in $136M IPO of Phoenix Education Partners
A Winston & Strawn LLP team led by partners Keerthika Subramanian, Steve Gavin and Timothy Kincaid and including Jacob Tabman, Jeremy Spankowski and Jenna Smith advised TVG-I-E-AEG Holdings, LP, an affiliate of The Vistria Group, as one of the selling stockholders in the $136 million initial public offering of Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. (NYSE: PXED), the parent company of The University of Phoenix, Inc. The IPO valued Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. at approximately $1.35 billion. The transaction marks The University of Phoenix’s return to public markets after nearly a decade as a private company.
Experience
|October 1, 2025
AA Mission Acquisition Corp. II - Initial Public Offering
Winston & Strawn LLP represented AA Mission Acquisition Corp. II, a blank check company, in the recent closing of its $100 million Initial Public Offering (IPO). The offering consisted of 10,000,000 units priced at $10.00 per unit, before deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses. The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “YCY.U” on October 1, 2025.
Experience
|July 24, 2025
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Linkhome Holdings Inc., a leading AI-powered U.S. real estate platform, in connection with its upsized $6 million initial public offering. The offering consisted of 1,500,000 shares of common stock priced at $4.00 per share, and the shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker “LHAI” on July 24, 2025.
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Sponsorship
|October 27, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors Tokyo Forum on U.S. Capital, Digital Assets, and AI Innovation
Winston & Strawn was proud to sponsor the Beyond Borders, Beyond Markets Tokyo Forum on U.S. Capital, Digital Assets, and AI Innovation. The event brought together global investors to explore the future of finance—from IPO strategies to AI’s role in capital markets. The forum discussed the nuances of going public in America and offered key considerations for capital access and enhanced liquidity.
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|October 6, 2025
|7 Min Read
The Potential Impact of Mandatory Arbitration Provisions on Securities Claims
This article was originally published in Westlaw Today. Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only.
Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|September 25, 2025
|5 Min Read
On September 17, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) released a policy statement (the Policy Statement) addressing its approach to mandatory arbitration provisions in the governing documents of companies intending to go public (each, an Issuer).
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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.