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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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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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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.
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Winston’s Hiring Chair Gives Advice to Aspiring Summer Associates
We recently sat down with Winston’s Hiring Committee chair, Samantha Lerner, to discuss how rising 2Ls can shine when interviewing for a summer associate position at Winston.
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Winston & Strawn Recognized in Chambers USA 2025
Chambers USA 2025 ranked Winston & Strawn as a leading law firm in 60 categories. Chambers & Partners is a prominent UK-based publishing organization that ranks lawyers and law firms based on robust editorial research and direct conversations with lawyers and clients.
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James Waters Selected to the 2025 SFNet 40 Under 40
Winston & Strawn partner James Waters merited a place on the Secured Finance Network’s (SFNet) 2025 40 Under 40 list.
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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.
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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.
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What Is the Securities Exchange Act of 1934?
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, the “Exchange Act”) established the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) and gave it the power to oversee the securities industry. Through the Exchange Act, the SEC gained the authority to register, regulate, and oversee brokerage firms, transfer agents, and clearing agencies. The Commission also has authority over the U.S. securities self-regulatory organizations (SROs), including: The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Market, Chicago Board of Options, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. SROs must have guidelines in place to make sure investors are protected.