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Winston & Strawn represents both private investment fund managers and institutional investors in the full range of legal and market practice issues involved in establishing, managing, and investing in private investment vehicles. By representing both managers and institutional investors, our attorneys have a unique perspective on the market drawing from in-depth experience and state-of-the-art knowledge of legal issues, deal terms, and market trends.
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We advise clients that originate, manage, and invest in broadly syndicated and middle-market corporate loans with their fund formation and capital markets fund-financing activities. Our experience includes structure and formation of CLOs, registered funds, hedge funds, listed funds, private credit funds, managed accounts, synthetic funds, SBICs, and onshore and offshore special purpose investment vehicles. Our experience spans the complete spectrum of services, including warehouse, leverage, and subscription facilities and ongoing portfolio support. Our Capital Markets Practice has extensive experience in debt and equity offerings, spin-offs, split-offs, and carve-outs, as well as securities compliance and corporate governance.
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Secondaries & Liquidity Solutions
Winston & Strawn’s Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions group delivers market-leading counsel to clients navigating the evolving landscape of private fund liquidity, secondaries transactions, and bespoke capital solutions. Our multidisciplinary team advises private fund sponsors, institutional investors, and asset managers on the full spectrum of private investment fund secondary market activity, from traditional LP portfolio sales to complex GP-led transactions and innovative liquidity structures. Our attorneys are consistently recognized by leading private equity corporate publications, including Chambers, Legal 500, and others.
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|April 29, 2025
Stream Realty Completes Ownership Transfer of Houston Center
Experience
|April 11, 2025
Cuprina Holdings (Cayman) Limited Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering
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Seminar/CLE
|June 23 - June 24, 2025
2025 Chicago SBIC Fund Reception & Conference
Winston & Strawn LLP and RSM US LLP are co-hosting the Chicago SBIC (Small Business Investment Company) Fund Conference on June 23-24, 205.
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|June 16, 2025
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Chambers Healthcare M&A 2025 Global Practice Guide - France
This article was originally published in Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide “Healthcare M&A 2025.” Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only.
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|June 16, 2025
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Winston & Strawn Bolsters London Office with Addition of Financial Regulation Partner Yulia Makarova
London—June 16, 2025 — Winston & Strawn announced today that Yulia Makarova has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in the Financial Innovation & Regulation practice. Yulia’s arrival marks a significant enhancement to the firm’s capabilities in counselling clients navigating complex financial regulatory matters across the UK, EU, and globally.
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ESG, or environmental, social, and governance (ESG), Investing refers to the making of investment decisions by environmental and/or socially conscious investors based on a set of standards or requirements for a company’s behavior. Environmental criteria consider how a company protects the environment, including corporate policies addressing climate change. Social criteria examine how a company values and supports relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and its local communities. Governance deals with, among other things, a company’s leadership, executive compensation, and shareholder rights.
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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.
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ESG in finance can refer to, among other things, financing tools such as Green, Social, and Sustainability Bonds and similar ESG-related debt instruments, as well as the separate discipline of ESG Investing. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors as part of their analysis to identify ESG-related risks and opportunities in particular investments. ESG metrics have not historically been included in financial reporting, though companies are increasingly making disclosures in their annual report or in a standalone sustainability report, and regulatory requirements for such disclosures, including from the SEC, are expanding.