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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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|December 20, 2023
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.
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Winston’s Environmental Law Update
|November 21, 2025
|4 Min Read
On November 18, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to temporarily stay implementation of California SB 261, the state’s corporate climate-related financial risk reporting law, while an appeal is pending related to an industry group-led challenge to the law. In the short ruling, the Ninth Circuit denied the motion to stay implementation of the companion bill, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act.
Benefits Blast
|November 14, 2025
|2 Min Read
The Internal Revenue Service Health and Welfare Limits for 2026
Global Trade & Foreign Policy Insights
|November 6, 2025
|4 Min Read
U.S. Asks for Input to Shape Global AI Strategy
On October 28, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration released a request for information (the RFI) to guide its formulation of the American AI Exports Program (the Program), with comments due November 28.
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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.
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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.
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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.