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In a global business and legal environment marked by change, U.S. and multinational companies, financial institutions, investors, and entrepreneurs face demanding challenges that significantly impact their businesses. Transactions partners advise clients around the globe to navigate these challenges, adapt to regulatory change, and move transactions to the finish line.
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Bankruptcy Litigation & Investigations
Large corporate bankruptcies and companies in financial distress often spawn a complex web of claims by lenders, trustees, debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, investors, shareholders, and other constituents. Attorneys in Winston & Strawn’s complex commercial litigation group and special situations and restructuring group serve as trusted advisors and resolute advocates to protect clients’ business interests and assets in multifaceted Chapter 11 cases and bankruptcy-related disputes.
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Commercial Litigation & Disputes
Winston represents clients in virtually every type of dispute that could arise from operating a business. While our primary objective is to protect our clients from the need to engage in litigation and enter the courtroom, we take pride in our heavyweight litigation experience and the knowledge that corporate America has repeatedly retained us not just for “bet-the-company” trials, but for “bet-the-industry” cases as well. Our commercial litigators’ track record of success earned the team a national Tier 1 ranking in Best Law Firms® 2025. Our practice is anchored by seasoned litigators, many of whom have been recognized by in-house counsel and their peers as top practitioners in their fields.
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|January 10, 2025
Winston Advises on Pioneering Bitcoin Crypto Lending Programs
Winston & Strawn represented subsidiaries of Hankey Group—Hankey Capital, Westlake Financial, and Midway—in structuring new, cutting-edge Bitcoin Lending Programs which provide real estate and luxury vehicle purchasers with innovative ways to pledge Bitcoin as collateral. The Bitcoin Lending Programs provide Hankey with flexibility on loan terms and conditions and offers Hankey’s borrower clients dynamic solutions for pledging Bitcoin as collateral.
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|October 15, 2024
Winston represented Specialty Building Products, LLC, a portfolio company of Winston client TJC, L.P., in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $510,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.750% senior secured notes due 2029 issued by Specialty Building Products Holdings, LLC and SBP Finance Corp. In connection with the notes offering, Winston also represented Specialty Building Products in connection with a $215,000,000 incremental term loan B add-on facility and the amendment and extension of an asset-based revolving credit facility. Proceeds from the offering were used, together with the proceeds of the incremental term loan B add-on facility, to refinance existing debt securities. Specialty Building Products, LLC is a leading distributor of specialty building products in North America.
Experience
|February 15, 2024
Winston Closes Financing of the Landmark San Juan Bay Cruise Terminals Project
Winston represented the initial purchaser of US$110M of tax-exempt bonds (including US$42.6M of forward delivery bonds) and the institutional investors that purchased US$77M of privately placed taxable bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority (known by its Spanish acronym “AFICA”). The proceeds were loaned to San Juan Cruise Port LLC (a subsidiary of Global Ports Holding Plc, the world’s largest independent cruise port operator) to finance a project to repair, expand, finance, maintain, and operate certain marine cruise terminals (consisting of Pier 1, Pier 3, Pier 4, Piers 11 to 14, and the Pan American Piers, along with the quay wall and walkways between Pier 1, Pier 2, Pier 3, and Pier 4) in the San Juan Bay pursuant to a 30-year concession.
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Client Alert
|October 29, 2025
|7 Min Read
On October 14, 2025, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (Notice) to amend certain of its existing anti-debanking rules that implement Florida House Bill 989 (HB 989), which became effective July 1, 2024, and amended Section 655.0323 of the Florida Statutes. If adopted into final form, the proposed amendments would amend Florida Administrative Code Rule 69U-100.323 (Annual Attestation of Compliance) and Rule 69U-100.3231 (Complaint Process Rule).
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|October 27, 2025
|Less Than 1 Min Read
Winston & Strawn Recognized in The Legal 500 UK 2026
Winston & Strawn’s London office has been ranked in the 2026 edition of The Legal 500 UK across seven practice areas:
Sponsorship
|October 9, 2025
Winston & Strawn Hosts 2025 New York Finance Reception
Winston & Strawn’s Global Finance practice hosted its annual finance reception in New York, offering an exciting networking event for our clients.
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Flash loans are a subset of smart contracts where uncollateralized loans are made to a buyer and re-paid in the same series of transactions. Flash loans represent essentially risk-free arbitrage opportunities; for example, if a cryptocurrency is being traded for $1 on one exchange and for $2 on another, a savvy trader can use smart contracts to take out a flash loan of $100 worth of the cryptocurrency on the first exchange, sell it for $200 on the second exchange, repay the loan, and pocket the extra $100 as profit as part of a single instantaneous transaction. Flash loans are usually risk-free for lenders as well; if there is no contract executed to return the amount loaned, the initial loan will never be made.
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The full name of the Dodd-Frank Act is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It was passed in 2010 to regulate the financial market and protect consumers from risky financial practices. The legislation and its rules cover the following:
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FinTech (Financial Technology) is a term used to categorize technology-driven solutions to traditional banking products. FinTech aims to make financial services more accessible to consumers.