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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 is a leading advisor to public and private companies and investment advisers on corporate transactions. We have experience representing public and private companies, financial sponsors, boards of directors and special committees, financial advisors, and management teams. This perspective enables us to understand the concerns of parties on all sides of the table, protect our clients’ interests, and execute deals.
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Winston offers a comprehensive cross-practice area Public Company Advisory Group, which leverages the collective experience of our Capital Markets and Securities, M&A, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Complex Commercial and Securities Litigation, and Tax practices, to advise our clients on the wide range of issues they face as public companies. With extensive experience providing top-tier legal counsel to our clients, we have cultivated a deep reservoir of knowledge in SEC reporting and compliance, capital markets, executive compensation, and corporate governance matters, earning the trust of numerous public company clients as their legal advisors in these critical areas.
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Experience
|February 18, 2026
RF Acquisition Corp III Announces Closing of $100 Million Initial Public Offering
Winston & Strawn LLP represented RF Acquisition Corp III, a newly organized special purpose acquisition company formed as a Cayman Islands exempted company, in connection with its $100M initial public offering. The Company priced 10,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. The units are listed on the Nasdaq Global Market and began trading under the ticker symbol “RFAMU” on February 13, 2026. Each unit consists of one ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, and one right to receive one-tenth of one ordinary share.
Experience
|February 12, 2026
Braiin Ltd. Loan from Streeterville
Winston represented Braiin in a $6.5 million loan from Streeterville.
Experience
|February 6, 2026
Winston Represented ETi Gida in Acquisition of TRUBAR
A Winston deal team, led by Tim Kincaid, Brad Vaiana and Ben Popeck, represented Turkish snack company ETI Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (ETi Gida) in its acquisition of Miami-based TRUBAR, a popular nutrition bar known for dessert-inspired flavor and clean ingredients.
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Sponsorship
|March 22, 2026
Winston & Strawn Sponsors 38th Annual Roth Conference
Winston & Strawn is proud to sponsor the 38th Annual Roth Conference. This year, the program will feature one-on-one and small group meetings, analyst-selected fireside chats, industry keynotes, and panel discussions.
Webinar
|March 19, 2026
New Perspectives on Venezuela: On-the-Ground Insights and Direct Foreign Investment Outlook
Please join us for the next session in our webinar series on Venezuela’s evolving economic and legal landscape, featuring a special presentation by Venezuelan lawyers Pedro Urdaneta and Miguel Rivero, partners at LEGA Abogados, who will share valuable on-the-ground insights. Winston & Strawn partners Cari Stinebower and Carl Fornaris will moderate the conversation, and time will be set aside to take questions from the audience.
Investigations, Enforcement, & Compliance Alerts
|March 18, 2026
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DOJ Launches New Department-Wide Corporate Enforcement Policy: What Companies Need to Know
On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ or the Department) released its first Department-wide corporate enforcement policy (CEP) for all corporate criminal matters, which aims to promote “uniformity, predictability, and fairness in how [DOJ] pursues white-collar cases.”[1]
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What Is a Publicly Held Company?
A publicly held company, also called a publicly traded company or public company, is a corporation whose ownership is distributed among general public shareholders through the trading of its shares on stock exchanges or over-the-counter markets. A public company is required to disclose its results of operations, financial condition, and other mandated business information regularly to the public. It must also report its securities trading on stock exchanges.
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A controlled company is a company of which more than 50 percent of the voting power is held by an individual, a group, or another company. Such a company may rely on stock exchange exemptions to avoid certain governance listing standards.