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Winston takes a strategic approach to privacy and data security, integrating our extensive capabilities across practices to provide our clients with cutting-edge privacy and data security counseling, crisis management, security incident investigation and notification management, defense of data security class action litigation and regulatory inquiries, and international data protection. Our Global Privacy & Data Security Practice features a core team of privacy professionals and is bolstered by more than 40 attorneys from a variety of other disciplines firmwide. Our team combines compliance counselors, transactional lawyers, former government regulators and federal prosecutors, seasoned investigators, and experienced litigators. Few firms can rival our in-depth, sophisticated, and integrated experience in this area.
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Securities, M&A & Corporate Governance Litigation
In today’s market, litigators with experience in securities, corporate governance, and M&A-related (collectively, “securities litigation”) matters need to leverage their broad experience to serve as both advocate and as counsel and strategist, focused on helping clients to overcome not just a legal issue but a collective business problem. Given the frequent interplay between things such as corporate-control transactions, public offerings, activist shareholders, the use of complex derivatives and other financial instruments, bad news impacting stock performance, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and insurance coverage, strategic and tactical litigation decisions can have a wide-ranging impact on the success of a given transaction, as well as on companies, their boards, senior management, and advisors.
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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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Experience
|December 15, 2025
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Apogem in the closing of a single-asset continuation vehicle for Lion Beverages, LLC. The transaction, led by Apogem and including J.P. Morgan Asset Management, RCP Advisors, and Montana Capital Partners, raised over $150 million, with significant participation from Encore Consumer Capital. The meaningful GP commitment underscores both confidence in Lion and alignment with investors.
Experience
|December 11, 2025
Winston Takes the Checkered Flag After “Massive Win” Settlement
Winston squared off in the W.D.N.C. against lawyers for NASCAR in an antitrust lawsuit brought on behalf of racing teams Front Row Motorsports Inc. and 23X1 Racing LLC—the team co-owned by Michael Jordan and driver Denny Hamlin—alleging monopolization of the market for premier stock car racing teams. On December 11, 2025, nine days into trial and the morning after the plaintiffs rested their case, the parties jointly announced a settlement. Jeffrey Kessler, Jeanifer Parsigian, and Danielle Williams were recognized by American Lawyer with its top “Litigator of the Week” honors on December 19, 2025, for this historic settlement.
Experience
|December 4, 2025
2025 Exelon Convertible Notes Offering
Winston served as initial purchasers' counsel to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as representatives of the initial purchasers, in connection with the private offering of $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Exelon Corporation's 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029, comprised of (i) $900,000,000 firm notes and (ii) an additional 100,000,000 notes issued at the initial purchasers' option.
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Seminar/CLE
|January 22, 2026
14th ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration – Houston
Imad Khan is a proud Co-Chair of The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), Institute for Energy Law (IEL) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration 14th edition of what has become the premier conference on international arbitration in the energy sector. Speakers from around the globe and across the industry will gather to focus on the key issues in the field today.
Recognitions
|January 9, 2026
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Winston & Strawn’s Antitrust/Competition Practice Honored in 2026 GCR 100
Global Competition Review has recognized Winston & Strawn’s Antitrust/Competition Practice as “highly recommended” in New York, Illinois, and California in the 2026 GCR 100. For over two decades, GCR 100 has provided a comprehensive list of the world’s best competition practices based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the law firms and economic consultancies doing the most important antitrust work around the world.
Recognitions
|January 9, 2026
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Winston Recognized in World Intellectual Property Review’s 2025 Trademark Rankings
Winston was recognized in World Intellectual Property Review's (WIPR) USA Trademark Rankings 2025. The rankings are “designed to identify the foremost legal talent dedicated to brand protection across the US.”
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What Is the Securities Act of 1933?
The Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the “Securities Act”) was passed to ensure that investors have financial and other important information about securities that are being sold publicly. It also bans the use of fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation in the sales of securities. The Securities Act, which is also referred to as the “truth in securities” law, is part of a legislative effort to govern and oversee the securities industry.
Law Glossary
Though the U.S. has not passed legislation dealing solely with data security law, organizations are expected to safeguard sensitive information and establish privacy policies. Legislation addressing specific types of sensitive data is found within various U.S. laws, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
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What Is Healthcare 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 healthcare 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 healthcare Security Rule outlines the operational safeguards that organizations must implement to keep protected electronic health information secure.