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James P.  Smith III
James P. Smith III
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  • New York
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+1 212-294-4633
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  • New York
Alessandra Swanson
Alessandra Swanson
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  • Chicago
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+1 312-558-7435
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Partner

  • Chicago
Sean G. Wieber
Sean G. Wieber
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  • Chicago
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+1 312-558-5769
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  • Chicago
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Capabilities 90 results

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Privacy & Data Security

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....Read more

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Capital Markets

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....Read more

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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....Read more

Experience 151 results

Experience

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August 12, 2025

US$2B Roper Technologies, Inc. Senior Notes Offering

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June 25, 2025

Winston Secures Federal Circuit Affirmance of 101 Victory for Polycom

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May 27, 2025

PicoCELA Inc. Closes $1.8 Public Offering

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Insights & News 5,103 results

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August 21, 2025

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Winston Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026

The 32nd edition of The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 includes 143 Winston & Strawn attorneys. The outlet identifies award winners by conducting and compiling exhaustive peer-review surveys. During this process, tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially assess their professional peers....Read more

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August 21, 2025

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Winston Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2026

The 6th edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2026 includes 190 Winston & Strawn attorneys. This designation is given to lawyers who have demonstrated outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. Eligible nominees have been in practice from 5-9 years....Read more

Tax Impacts

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August 20, 2025

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Crypto Tax Update: New Tax Rules on the Horizon?

On July 30, President Trump’s Working Group on Digital Assets released its comprehensive “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology” report (the Report). The 160-plus-page report sets forth a series of recommendations seeking to “ensure crypto becomes a hallmark of the new American Golden Age” while outlining a proposed framework for regulating digital assets. A key section of the Report focuses on the taxation of digital assets and sets forth proposals on the modernization of the tax framework to better align with the realities of the digital asset ecosystem. The proposals address a range of substantive tax issues, including the classification of digital assets for tax purposes, the timing and character of income from mining and staking activities, and the tax treatment of stablecoins, and also recommends updates to taxpayer and third-party reporting requirements.

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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....Read more

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What Is Data Security Law?

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....Read more
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