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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
With attorneys based in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Winston’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) team represents a broad range of plan sponsors and offers clients not just deal support but the full suite of employee benefit services. These include public company reporting and executive compensation, employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions, qualified retirement plans and Title I investment advice, health and welfare benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and international human resources matters. And driven by a volatile labor market, we are partnering with clients to innovate plan structure and design, including cutting-edge services such as private exchange medical benefits, employee benefits in captive insurance, and fiduciary governance best practices. With decades of experience, our EBEC team maintains strong brand recognition, with clients describing our attorneys as “superb,” “very client-friendly,” “extremely responsive and able to bring forth the right resources,” and “having an “incredible breadth of knowledge.”
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Environmental Litigation & Enforcement
With today’s rapidly evolving rules of engagement, paired with the often contentious nature of environmental disputes, clients rely on Winston for our practical experience and substantive knowledge of the broad-ranging issues involved in environmental litigation, enforcement, and investigations.
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Winston’s Environmental Practice brings decades of experience to our clients. Chaired by Eleni Kouimelis, former assistant regional counsel with USEPA Region 5, our Environmental Practice provides comprehensive services to clients around the globe.
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|February 13, 2025
RF Acquisition Corp. Closes Business Combination with GCL Asia to Go Public
Winston & Strawn represented RF Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in its business combination with Grand Centrex Limited, one of Asia's leading video game distributors and publishers. The combined company, GCL, is now listed on Nasdaq under the reserved ticker symbol "GCL.” The transaction gives GCL approximately $1.2 billion in pre-transaction equity value. GCL's existing shareholders will roll over 100% of the equity and retain a majority of the Combined Company's outstanding shares, while GCL also designated a majority of the Combined Company's board of directors. The transaction includes a minimum cash condition of $25,000,000 and resulted in GCL receiving gross proceeds of approximately $42.9 million (assuming no further redemptions by RF Acquisition shareholders). RF Acquisition and GCL have agreed to work together to pursue commitments for a private placement of equity, debt, or other alternative financings of up to $20 million. GCL expects to use proceeds from the transaction to accelerate its game publishing and IP management business, alongside its marketing reach with AAA/AA PC game titles.
Experience
|May 28, 2024
A team lead by Matt Stockstill and Jeff Cole represented The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. (Rowman & Littlefield) in the sale of its academic book publishing business to Bloomsbury Publishing PLC for US$83M. Rowman & Littlefield will retain Globe Pequot, its trade publishing arm; Sundance-Newbridge, its K-8 education business; and National Book Network, its trade distribution division. The transaction is an important milestone in Rowman & Littlefield’s 75-year history enabling it to retain its trade publishing and distribution business, and enabling Bloomsbury to become a significant US academic publisher through the addition of 40,000 academic titles.
Experience
|January 31, 2023
Secured Landmark Equal-Pay Settlement for Current and Former USWNT Members
In a global-headline-grabbing matter of first impression—applying the Equal Pay Act and Title VII equal-pay requirements to female athletes in a professional team sport, we lodged a class action for current and former World Cup-winning USWNT players against their employer, USSF, for equal pay and working conditions to their USMNT counterparts. Along with much of the world, the USMNT players expressed their deep support for their female counterparts throughout this litigation.
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Benefits Blast
|February 2, 2026
|3 Min Read
U.S. Department of Labor AMICUS Briefs Support Curbing Wave of ERISA Litigation
An ERISA litigation trend has emerged that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is intervening in court and taking the employer’s side. This trend reflects a deliberate policy shift that matters for every plan sponsor and fiduciary in an environment where “regulation by litigation” has become a default strategy for plaintiffs’ lawyers.
Sponsorship
|November 20, 2025
Winston & Strawn Sponsors 2025 Smart Business Dealmakers South Florida M&A Conference
Winston & Strawn was proud to sponsor the upcoming Smart Business Dealmakers South Florida M&A Conference. The conference brought together hundreds of local dealmakers, including middle-market CEOs, top investors and lenders, and leading M&A advisers.
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|November 6, 2025
Michael Kimberly Presents at AALA’s Annual Educational Symposium
Winston & Strawn’s Appellate & Critical Motions Practice Co-Chair Michael Kimberly was a featured speaker at the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA)’s Annual Educational Symposium in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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What Is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Currently, the Constitution does not guarantee that all the rights it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex. With 24 words, the Equal Rights Amendment would change that. It would provide that “[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.” It would also give Congress the power to enforce that constitutional guarantee by passing legislation.
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Passed in 1998 and implemented in 2000, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) updated U.S. law to meet the requirements of international copyright treaties. The DMCA addresses challenging issues relating to uses of copyrighted material in the digital environment: it limits the liability of online service providers that meet certain conditions, while providing certain procedures for addressing online infringement; it prohibits circumvention of digital technologies that control or limit access to copyrighted works; and it prohibits the removal or modification of certain types of copyright management information contained in protected works. Title II of the DMCA (sometimes also referred to as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, or OCILLA) is codified at Section 512, Title 17, of the United States Code.
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