Winston & Strawn LLP

Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 950 lawyers across 15 offices in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The London office advises on corporate matters, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and tax; finance, including acquisition, leveraged, restructuring, and insolvency; dispute resolution, including litigation, international arbitration, and contentious regulatory work; as well as antitrust, competition, and sports-related issues.

The firm’s corporate practice serves public and private companies, private equity and investment funds, funding sources, investors, emerging businesses, and family offices on a wide range of transactions. These include mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, initial public offerings, SPACs, and distressed acquisitions. Its team advises on transactions of varying size and complexity, acting for both large and middle-market clients.

The finance practice assists borrowers, lenders, and sponsors with acquisition and leveraged finance, asset-backed lending, restructuring, bank regulatory and compliance matters, investment management, private funds, broker-dealer, and futures/exchange work. Clients include public and private companies, financial institutions, investment funds, alternative funding sources, investors, and emerging businesses.

Winston & Strawn’s dispute resolution team advises on complex commercial litigation, contentious regulatory matters, investigations, arbitration, and mediation. Areas of focus include fraud, white collar crime, commercial, securities, trade, insolvency, and regulatory disputes. The firm has been involved in significant litigation before the English Courts, including injunctions to protect confidential information, litigation involving brands, tax disputes, real estate matters, and accounting-related disputes.

The international arbitration practice represents sovereign states, investors, governments, companies, and individuals in large-scale, multi-jurisdictional disputes, as well as mid-sized arbitration and mediation proceedings. The team advises across a wide range of industries and regularly assists in court actions relating to the enforcement or challenge of arbitral awards.

The antitrust and competition team advises clients on competition, cartel defence, trade, sanctions, data privacy, trade secrets, and regulatory issues. It represents companies, industry associations, and governments before the European Commission, EU Member State authorities, and European courts. A notable area of practice includes sports law, covering athlete welfare, performance development, funding, selection, classification, doping, and athlete agreements.

Languages
English, Spanish, German, French, Slovak, Czech

Staffing
30+ resident fee-earners