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Cryptocurrencies, Digital Assets & Blockchain Technology
As interest in digital assets continues to rise, novel and complex legal issues emerge continually. Winston’s cross-border interdisciplinary team provides comprehensive regulatory, litigation, and transactional services on the array of issues confronting the digital assets industry. Our dedicated team features pioneering attorneys in the sector, leading litigators, former senior regulators, and in-house counsel.
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Financial services companies in the financial technology (FinTech) space are contributing to rapid technological advances and innovation in the development, offering, and delivery of core financial products and services. Winston’s FinTech, Banking & Payments attorneys support these companies throughout the entire FinTech business life cycle, from proof of concept through maturity, including federal and state licensing and registration, regulatory compliance and risk management, structured finance, M&A, and private equity, intellectual property (IP) management, and supervision and enforcement. Our clients include banks, FinTech companies, private equity and other investors, money services businesses, trust companies, consumer finance companies, investment advisers, and other financial firms.
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Our attorneys have extensive experience counseling U.S. and multinational public companies across a range of industries in all aspects of corporate governance, securities, and compliance matters. We advise public companies, boards of directors and their committees, and senior executives on the corporate governance and compliance matters that public companies and their leadership confront—from board structuring and succession planning to shareholder activism and SEC regulation. Drawing on our experience as seasoned counselors, we keep clients abreast of evolving trends and best practices to proactively manage any governance or compliance issues. We have assembled one of the most experienced teams of any law firm in the country that’s counseling public companies.
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Tax Impacts
|July 25, 2025
|2 Min Read
CLARITY Bill & GENIUS Act Explained: Crypto Classification and Tax Impact
Recent legislative proposals—the CLARITY Bill and the GENIUS Act—are designed to bring more clarity to how digital assets are regulated in the United States. The Clarity Bill was passed by the House of Representatives on July 17, 2025, and is now being reviewed by the Senate.
In the Media
|July 24, 2025
|2 Min Read
Winston’s Digital Assets Lawyers Discuss the GENIUS Act with IFLR
Winston & Strawn Digital Assets Group co-chairs Kimberly Prior and Daniel Stabile and partner Yulia Makarova were featured in an IFLR article discussing the GENIUS Act and how it is set to drive new client demand, complex advisory needs, and internal investment across legal teams. On July 18, President Trump signed the stablecoin bill titled “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act of 2025” which marks the first federal regulatory framework for the issuance and operation of payment stablecoins in the country.
Webinar
|July 23, 2025
Real GENIUS: Landmark U.S. Federal Payment Stablecoin Legislation
Join our Digital Assets Group as we unpack the ground-breaking GENIUS Act, which establishes a federal and state regulatory framework for bank and non-bank issuers of payment stablecoins. The webinar will examine the impact of the Act on digital assets companies and financial institutions that have entered (or seek to enter) the stablecoin space.
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Winston & Strawn’s Miami office opened in 2022 and represents the firm’s largest expansion in several years. Located in the heart of the city’s Financial District, the office launched with a strong team of transactional and litigation partners from prestigious law firms operating in South Florida. Our Miami office leverages the area’s status as a critical nexus point for banking and international trade with the United States, Europe, Latin America, and other parts of the world. Our attorneys have the cultural fluency and local knowledge necessary to work seamlessly with international clients, particularly those with ties to Latin America.
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Serving one of the world’s largest economies for over 20 years, Winston & Strawn’s Los Angeles office is home to more than 100 lawyers and business professionals. Under the guidance of Office Managing Partner Angela Machala, our L.A. office thrives as a dynamic and tightly knit community with an inclusive culture in which its members from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives collaborate closely to support each other’s success and achieve their clients’ goals. Our L.A. lawyers—who are equally split between litigation and transactional work—advise 80+ Fortune 500 companies, which is a testament to the collaborative environment we’ve created to provide exceptional legal services.