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Environmental Litigation & Enforcement
With today’s rapidly evolving rules of engagement, paired with the often contentious nature of environmental disputes, clients rely on Winston for our practical experience and substantive knowledge of the broad-ranging issues involved in environmental litigation, enforcement, and investigations.
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Financial services companies in the financial technology (FinTech) space are contributing to rapid technological advances and innovation in the development, offering, and delivery of core financial products and services. Winston’s FinTech, Banking & Payments attorneys support these companies throughout the entire FinTech business life cycle, from proof of concept through maturity, including federal and state licensing and registration, regulatory compliance and risk management, structured finance, M&A, and private equity, intellectual property (IP) management, and supervision and enforcement. Our clients include banks, FinTech companies, private equity and other investors, money services businesses, trust companies, consumer finance companies, investment advisers, and other financial firms.
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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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Experience
|April 30, 2025
Rapid Ruling: Fifth Circuit Affirms Winston Win on Summary Judgment the Day After Oral Argument
Winston recently secured a total victory for our clients, KVP Energy Services, LLC and other affiliated defendants, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Plaintiff BHI Energy I Power Services LLC filed suit in the U.S. Northern District of Texas in September 2022, alleging US$150M in damages in connection with causes of action for misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, and various other business torts and statutory violations. Winston scored an important early win in January 2023 by defeating BHI Energy’s motion for preliminary injunction. After a year of extensive discovery, Winston moved for full summary judgment on behalf of all defendants. In a strongly worded opinion, the district court granted Winston’s summary judgment motion and dismissed the entirety of BHI’s lawsuit.
Experience
|January 16, 2024
Winston & Strawn represented The Honey Pot Company Holdings, LLC (“The Honey Pot Co.”), a leading better-for-you feminine care brand in connection with the acquisition of a controlling stake in the business by Compass Diversified (NYSE: CODI) ("Compass”). Compass and The Honey Pot entered into a definitive agreement for an enterprise value of $380 million (excluding working capital and certain other adjustments upon closing). The Honey Pot Co. will continue to be led by its current leadership team and existing owners and management will retain a significant minority stake in The Honey Pot Co.
Experience
|October 31, 2023
Aileron Therapeutics Announces Acquisition of Lung Therapeutics
Winston & Strawn is representing Clear Street LLC, the placement agent in Aileron Therapeutics, Inc.’s recently announced acquisition of Lung Therapeutics (Lung TX), a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapies for the treatment of orphan pulmonary and fibrosis indications that have no approved or limited effective treatments. The acquisition of Lung Tx was structured as a stock-for-stock transaction whereby all of Lung Tx’s outstanding equity interests were exchanged in a merger for a combination of shares of Aileron common stock and shares of Aileron Series X preferred stock. Following the acquisition, Lung Tx became a wholly owned subsidiary of Aileron. Immediately after the acquisition of Lung Tx, Aileron entered into a definitive agreement for a private placement with existing Lung Tx investors and new investors to raise approximately US$18M, including the conversion of certain convertible promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of approximately US$1.6M issued by Lung Tx to Bios prior to the acquisition. In the private placement, investors have agreed to purchase (i) an aggregate of 4,707 shares of Series X preferred stock and (ii) warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,353,500 shares of Aileron common stock. The warrants will be exercisable any time after the later of May 2, 2024 and the date stockholder approval for the conversion rights of the Series X preferred stock is obtained and on or prior to May 2, 2027, at an exercise price of US$4.89. The private placement is expected to close on November 2, 2023, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
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Sponsorship
|November 21, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors American Fintech Council’s 9th Annual Policy Summit
Winston & Strawn was proud to sponsor and participate in the American Fintech Council’s 9th annual Policy Summit in Washington, D.C.—a landmark event bringing together bank, fintech, and digital assets leaders, legislators, and regulators for conversations shaping the future of financial services.
In the Media
|November 21, 2025
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Eva Davis Shares Insights on Structuring Tariff-Impacted Deals with Mergers & Acquisitions
Winston & Strawn partner Eva Davis spoke with Mergers & Acquisitions about how it is possible to close deals despite uncertainty surrounding potential tariff impacts. She explained that in two deals that were close to signing in March, there was enough of a cushion in the sellers’ valuation expectations that when tariffs took effect on April 1, they agreed to reduce the purchase price and do an earnout to make up for the reduction that allowed the deals to close in April and May. She noted that in each transaction, the purchase price was based on an Ebitda multiple calculated over either a trailing or projected 12-month period.
Winston’s Environmental Law Update
|November 21, 2025
|4 Min Read
On November 18, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to temporarily stay implementation of California SB 261, the state’s corporate climate-related financial risk reporting law, while an appeal is pending related to an industry group-led challenge to the law. In the short ruling, the Ninth Circuit denied the motion to stay implementation of the companion bill, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.
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