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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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Our team’s deep market knowledge of laws affecting retirement plans enables us to develop customized retirement plan solutions, practical advice, and strategies for our clients’ unique needs and workforce composition. Our experienced benefits attorneys represent public companies, private companies, and private equity operating companies in retirement plan design and day-to-day plan compliance.
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|December 23, 2024
Winston advises Atlantic Sustainable Catch in its acquisition of Atlantic Capes Fisheries
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|December 12, 2024
Winston advises Crystal on its acquisition of Armonial Partners
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|May 5, 2025
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A Look At AI Benefits And Risks In Global Development Efforts
This article was originally published in Law360. Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only.
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|May 5, 2025
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Brad Mandel Discusses Potential Impacts of Tariffs on the Secondary Market with SecondaryLink
Winston & Strawn partner Brad Mandel spoke with SecondaryLink to provide his insights on how tariff policies are set to influence the secondary market. When President Trump took office in January, markets were coming off highs, with the S&P 500 rallying 23% in 2024 and the secondary market reaching an estimated $162 billion. Trump’s tariff announcements have since triggered swings in public equities and heightened volatility, sparking various questions in the secondary market. In the Q&A, Brad touched on topics including how the tariffs will impact secondary market volume and fundraising, seller behavior and motivations, strategy pricing and demand shifts, and more.
Competition Corner
|May 2, 2025
|4 Min Read
Washington State Enacts a Broad Premerger Notification Requirement for All Industries
Washington recently became the first state to adopt the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (UAPNA) and establish, effective July 27, 2025, a general state-level premerger notification requirement for all transactions.
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