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From data centers, fiber networks, and broadband systems to AI-ready campuses and edge facilities, our multidisciplinary teams guide clients through complex regulatory, transactional, and technical challenges worldwide. We provide end-to-end support—from site acquisition, permitting, and interconnection to sophisticated financing structures, cross-border M&A, and high-stakes disputes—optimizing project reliability, regulatory compliance, and capital efficiency throughout the asset lifecycle.
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Winston is well regarded for deep and broad experience advising clients in the development, construction, financing and refinancing, acquisition, and operation of major infrastructure assets, including several award-winning deals and public-private-partnership (PPPs or P3s) projects in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Recognized for our ability to “take complex issues and boil them down to pragmatic solutions” (Chambers USA 2023), our team represents a diverse mix of participants and stakeholders in a broad range of investments and non-recourse/limited recourse financings, and we have experience working on many of the most complex projects, within aggressive time frames, while employing inventive solutions. Likewise, our lawyers help to identify and quantify roadblocks and risks at an early stage, so that we can help our clients—which include developers and sponsors, a full range of lenders and investors, project owners and operators, governments and their agencies, and other project counterparties—evaluate and, to the extent possible, mitigate or eliminate risk.
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As core segments of the global economy continue to embrace sustainable and carbon-neutral energy resources as complementary and integral to fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption, we stand ready to guide our clients through the energy transition. Our team is at the forefront of the flourishing energy transition market, and we bring practical experience, perspective, and innovative thinking to the sector. By combining our more than 40 years of experience in renewable and conventional energy with an integrated service approach, we help clients to plan for, invest in, and thrive in today’s shifting environment. Not only does our team include experienced energy and corporate lawyers, but also practitioners with deep experience in tax credits and tax equity, project finance, infrastructure, and power and renewables to serve the varied needs of our client base.
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|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
|July 15, 2025
Winston Represented Cuadrilla Capital in the Acquisition of TigerGraph
Winston represented Cuadrilla Capital, a leading enterprise software investment firm, in the strategic investment of TigerGraph, an enterprise AI infrastructure and graph database leader. The investment will facilitate TigerGraph’s continued innovation and accelerate its business growth by positioning TigerGraph to expand its market-leading capabilities in fraud detection, entity resolution, customer 360 initiatives, supply chain management, and other mission-critical enterprise applications.
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.
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Recognitions
|January 14, 2026
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Winston Attorneys Inducted Into the 2026 Lawdragon Hall of Fame
Winston & Strawn partners Jonathan Birenbaum, Billie Ellis, and Laura Petroff were named among the 2026 class of the Lawdragon Hall of Fame Inductees. The honor recognizes outstanding lawyers who have made remarkable and lasting contributions to the legal profession.
In the Media
|January 7, 2026
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Kevin Brophy Shares Market Outlook on Natural Gas and Oil in Hart Energy
Kevin Brophy, co-chair of Winston & Strawn’s Energy & Infrastructure Industry Group, was featured in Hart Energy discussing the diverging outlooks for natural gas and oil markets and the implications for investment, capital allocation, and deal activity heading into 2026.
Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|December 23, 2025
|3 Min Read
DTCC Partners with Digital Asset to Tokenize DTC-Custodied U.S. Treasury Securities
On December 17, 2025, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced a partnership with Digital Asset Holdings (Digital Asset), a developer of distributed ledger technology, to tokenize a subset of U.S. Treasury securities custodied at its subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company (DTC), using Digital Asset’s Canton Network. This announcement follows DTC’s receipt of a No-Action Letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 11, 2025, providing no-action relief allowing DTC to offer a pilot tokenization service for certain highly liquid assets.
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What Is the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team?
The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) is part of the DOJ’s Criminal Division. It is to identify, investigate, support, and pursue cases involving the criminal use of digital assets, with a particular focus on virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, infrastructure providers, and other entities that are enabling the misuse of cryptocurrency and related technologies to commit or facilitate criminal activity.
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Cloud computing law deals with the legal issues, such as data confidentiality, that occur when business and personal assets are placed on a cloud computing service. Because the IT infrastructure used in the cloud is owned by someone other than the organization collecting the information, issues arise. Cloud computing allows companies to use fewer resources and may involve public, private, and hybrid versions of cloud processing and storage.
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