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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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Winston & Strawn’s private equity attorneys provide strategic advice and legal counsel to middle-market private equity funds, hedge funds, family offices, real estate funds, alternative asset managers, portfolio companies, and institutional investors. We have one of the broadest and most active national middle-market private equity practices in the U.S.
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|July 15, 2025
Atsion Commits Up to $200 Million in Strategic OFA Investment
Winston & Strawn is representing Atsion Opportunity Fund LLC – Series 1 in connection with its committed equity facility of up to US$200M with OFA Group. The facility enables OFA to issue and sell ordinary shares over a 36-month period to support its cryptocurrency treasury strategy.
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|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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|July 9, 2025
BitMine Completes $20 Billion Upsize of ATM Program
Winston & Strawn LLP represented BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. in connection with its latest expansion of its at-the-market (ATM) equity offering, increasing the program by $20 billion to a total of $24.5 billion. BitMine (NYSE: BMNR), a former bitcoin mining company now focused on building the largest Ethereum treasury in the world, currently holds more than 1,713,899 ETH valued at over $8.2 billion.
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|October 19, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors The 2025 National Summit for Middle Market Funds
Winston & Strawn is proud to be an elite sponsor of The 2025 National Summit for Middle Market Funds, the premier event for lower middle market networking and fundraising.
Sponsorship
|October 15, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors ChIPs 2025 Global Summit
Winston & Strawn is a proud sponsor of the 2025 ChIPs Global Summit, which brings together women from all over the world working in technology, policy, private practice, corporations, government, academia, and beyond. Each year, the summit aims to advance innovation through diversity of thought and connect women through engagement opportunities.
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|October 9, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors the 45th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate & Securities Law Institute
Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor the 45th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate & Securities Law Institute at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL.
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What Is a Foreign Private Issuer (FPI)?
A Foreign Private Issuer (FPI) is any foreign issuer desiring to raise capital in the U.S., unless:
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The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is legislation, enacted on April 5, 2012, designed to encourage funding of small businesses in the U.S. by easing securities regulations and therefore making it easier for private companies to access the public capital markets.
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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.