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Practice Area

Finance

Keeping a deal moving forward can be challenging. Our 100+ Finance attorneys help clients maintain momentum with a commitment to understanding the challenges, risks, and opportunities they face. Our global team has developed great insights through the representation of financial institutions and corporate enterprises of all types and sizes in the finance industry. We have a well-rounded finance practice, with dedicated teams that advise banks, credit funds, alternative capital providers, sponsors, and corporations on a wide range of transactions including debt finance (leveraged, asset-based, and reserve-based lending), fund finance, structured finance, derivatives and structured products, project finance, and transportation finance....Read more

Practice Area

Project Finance

Industry

Infrastructure

Winston is well regarded for deep and broad experience advising clients in the development, construction, financing and refinancing, acquisition, and operation of major infrastructure assets, including several award-winning deals and public-private-partnership (PPPs or P3s) projects in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Recognized for our ability to “take complex issues and boil them down to pragmatic solutions” (Chambers USA 2023), our team represents a diverse mix of participants and stakeholders in a broad range of investments and non-recourse/limited recourse financings, and we have experience working on many of the most complex projects, within aggressive time frames, while employing inventive solutions. Likewise, our lawyers help to identify and quantify roadblocks and risks at an early stage, so that we can help our clients—which include developers and sponsors, a full range of lenders and investors, project owners and operators, governments and their agencies, and other project counterparties—evaluate and, to the extent possible, mitigate or eliminate risk....Read more

Experience 20 results

Experience

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July 31, 2024

Maritime Counsel for Rand Logistics's Acquisition of Andrie

Winston & Strawn served as special maritime counsel to Rand Logistics, a leading provider of bulk freight shipping in the Great Lakes region, in its acquisition of Andrie, LLC, a leading marine transporter of liquid bulk commodity goods, from Auxo Investment Partners....Read more

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January 29, 2024

Winston Represents POET, LLC in CCS Agreement with Summit Carbon Solutions

Represented POET, LLC in connection with a groundbreaking partnership with Summit Carbon Solutions connecting the world’s largest biofuel producer with the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project. The partnership strategically expands the carbon opportunity across the Midwest by incorporating POET’s 12 facilities in Iowa and five facilities in South Dakota into the Summit project. This addition will facilitate the capture, transportation, and permanent storage of 4.7 million metric tons of CO2 annually from the 17 POET bioprocessing plants. The deal was signed on January 29, 2024....Read more

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December 20, 2023

Winston Represented Hub Group in its Acquisition of the Final Mile Business of Forward Air Corporation

Winston represented Illinois-based Hub Group (NASDAQ: HUBG), a freight transportation management company, in its acquisition of the final mile business of Forward Air Corporation (NASDAQ: FWRD). The acquisition bolsters Hub Group's presence in the transportation industry across the United States and adds a complementary business line to its customers' transportation and logistics needs....Read more
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Insights & News 452 results

Winston’s Environmental Law Update

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January 29, 2026

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4 Min Read

CARB Advances Climate Disclosure Rules as Ninth Circuit Appeal Continues

As we previously noted, a legal challenge to California’s climate disclosure laws has made its way to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which stayed enforcement of one of the laws pending appeal.
 

MaritimeFedWatch

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January 21, 2026

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2 Min Read

Jones Act Survives Constitutional Challenge

On January 20, 2026, Judge James E. Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, dismissed a case challenging the constitutionality of section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, known as the “Jones Act.”  The case was brought by Kōloa Rum Company against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in February 2025.

Global Trade & Foreign Policy Insights

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January 13, 2026

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10+ Min Read

Cari’s Legal Exchange: Operating Under the New Venezuelan Framework

In this episode of Cari's Legal Exchange, join Cari Stinebower and Carlos Eduardo Acedo, a longtime partner at MENPA in Caracas, as they as they explore the evolving legal and investment landscape in Venezuela. 

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Site Content

What Is The Jones Act?

The Jones Act, as used in the world of shipping is a law that reserves the transportation of goods between two points in the United States to qualified U.S.-flag vessels. This coastwise reservation law is named after its chief sponsor, Senator Wesley L. Jones. Similar laws apply to the transportation of passengers and reserve towing, dredging, and fishing in U.S. waters to qualified U.S.-flag vessels. Such vessels must be U.S. citizen-owned, U.S. citizen-crewed, U.S.-registered, and U.S.-built. Another law, also called the “Jones Act,” relates to merchant mariner injury recoveries....Read more

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What Are U.S. Coastwise Laws?

Also known as maritime cabotage laws, U.S. coastwise laws reserve U.S. domestic maritime trade to qualified U.S. registered (referred to as “U.S.-flag” vessels). These laws are also commonly referred to as the Jones Act. One of these coastwise laws, the Passenger Vessel Services Act, reserves the transportation of passengers between U.S. ports, or points, to qualified U.S.-flag vessels....Read more

Location

Washington, DC

Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. office—the first outside of Chicago—opened its doors in 1970. The office is home to 75+ lawyers, many of whom are nationally recognized and award-winning, with experience navigating clients through regulatory and enforcement issues as well as complicated governmental processes. Located in the center of the nation’s capital, the D.C. office assists clients at the intersection of business, government, and law. We represent 75+ Fortune 500 companies and employ eight lawyers with prior government experience. The office also boasts a nationally ranked eDiscovery group known for providing a full-service practice....Read more
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