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Class Actions & Group Litigation
Winston has developed a consistent record of success handling class action cases in state and federal courts. The practice is anchored by seasoned class action lawyers, many of whom have been recognized by Chambers USA and other ranking organizations as being top practitioners in their field. Our clients rely on us to steer them through class action matters by drawing on the firm’s significant experience in resolving complex litigation using creative and aggressive arguments, across a broad range of class, collective, coordinated, and mass actions, as well multidistrict litigation. We also have succeeded at trial in several class actions—a rare occurrence.
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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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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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Experience
|October 24, 2025
$400 Million GATX Corporation Senior Notes Offering
Represented joint book-running managers BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as underwriters' counsel, in connection with the registered public offering by GATX Corporation of $200 million of its 5.500% Senior Notes due 2035 and $200 million of its 6.050% Senior Notes due 2054.
Experience
|October 1, 2025
AA Mission Acquisition Corp. II - Initial Public Offering
Winston & Strawn LLP represented AA Mission Acquisition Corp. II, a blank check company, in the recent closing of its $100 million Initial Public Offering (IPO). The offering consisted of 10,000,000 units priced at $10.00 per unit, before deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses. The units began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “YCY.U” on October 1, 2025.
Experience
|September 29, 2025
Winston Advises PJT Partners in Beyond Meat’s $1.105 Billion Exchange Offer
Winston & Strawn LLP represented PJT Partners in its role as dealer manager to Beyond Meat, Inc., a publicly traded food technology company and leading producer of plant-based meat alternatives, in connection with an exchange offer and consent solicitation for any and all of its $1.105 billion of 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 for up to $202.5 million in new 7.00% Convertible Senior Secured Second Lien PIK Toggle Notes due 2030 and up to approximately 326 million shares of common stock.
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Webinar
|December 17, 2025
Privacy Problems Webinar Series
Join the Winston & Strawn Global Privacy and Data Security Practice team for a conversation on emerging privacy trends to have on your radar as we approach the New Year. Topics will include a discussion of strategies companies can take to protect themselves against a wave of burgeoning claims under California’s Shine the Light Law, recent trends in wiretap lawsuits arising from online website monitoring and email tracking practices (hint: looking at you, Florida), and insights on why companies should pay close attention to commercial email subject lines sent to Washington recipients.
Client Alert
|December 12, 2025
|4 Min Read
OCC and FDIC Rescind Interagency Leveraged Lending Guidance
On December 5, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a joint statement (the Statement) rescinding the Interagency Guidance on Leveraged Lending, issued March 2013 (the 2013 Guidance), as well as the Frequently Asked Questions for Implementing March 2013 Interagency Guidance on Leveraged Lending, issued February 2014 (the 2014 FAQs). The Federal Reserve, which co-signed both documents, has not yet indicated whether it will follow suit, but one would expect larger state-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System (and thus supervised by the Federal Reserve) to lobby the Federal Reserve for equal treatment on this important issue to maintain a level playing field with their national bank and state-chartered, FDIC-supervised bank competitors.
In the Media
|December 11, 2025
|2 Min Read
Winston & Strawn secured a transformative settlement on behalf of 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports in their high-profile antitrust litigation against NASCAR. Reached mid-trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the agreement delivers long-term structural stability for all NASCAR Cup Series teams and creates the conditions for meaningful competitive and commercial growth across the sport.
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Law Glossary
A class action is a procedural device that allows one or more persons, usually plaintiffs (though federal and state procedural rules also authorize defendant classes) to file suit on behalf of a group of similarly situated persons. Federal law defines a class action as “any civil action filed under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or similar State statute or rule of judicial procedure authorizing an action to be brought by 1 or more representative persons as a class action.” 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(1)(B), (d)(8).
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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
Consumer fraud is commonly defined as deceptive business practices that cause consumers to suffer financial or other losses. The victims believe they are participating in a legal and valid business transaction when they are actually being defrauded. Fraud against consumers is often related to false promises or inaccurate claims made to consumers, as well as practices that directly cheat consumers out of their money.