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Cutting across a wide range of practice areas, Winston & Strawn helps international clients navigate the changing business and regulatory landscape in pursuing opportunities across Asia and assists private and public Asia-based clients in conducting outbound business activities. Our attorneys have broad experience in the structuring and execution of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, capital markets transactions, and general corporate matters. We also have market-leading capabilities in intellectual property and our team in Asia brings together a unique combination of skills and experience for technology exports and potential IP disputes.
Practice Area
International trade is essential for the growth and development of global economies and businesses. As international trade has expanded and developed, so too have the myriad rules and regulations that govern it. The global compliance environment is becoming more complex by the day and can be difficult to navigate without the assistance of experienced counsel. Failure to comply with international trade rules and regulations—even if done so unwittingly—can lead to civil and criminal penalties, monitorships, consent agreements, debarment, reputational damage, substantial administrative burden, legal expense, and unsatisfied business objectives. Increasingly, there also is exposure for individual officers/directors, which can include monetary penalties and, potentially, jail time.
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Experience
|May 10, 2024
Winston’s London Restructuring practice scores a significant win on appeal for Hong Kong and BVI liquidator claimants in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) based Peking University Founders Group Limited (PUFG) insolvency.
Experience
|August 14, 2023
AlphaVest Acquisition Corp Merger Agreement with Wanshun Technology Group
Experience
|December 17, 2021
Battery Future Acquisition Corp. Closes US$345M IPO
Winston & Strawn LLP represented Battery Future Acquisition Corp. in connection with its IPO of 34,500,000 units, including 4,500,000 units issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, at a price of US$10.00 per unit. The units are listed on the NYSE and began trading under the ticker symbol “BFAC.U” on December 15, 2021. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant, with each whole warrant exercisable to purchase one Class A ordinary share of the Company at a price of US$11.50 per share. After the securities comprising the units begin separate trading, the Class A ordinary shares and warrants are expected to be listed on the NYSE under the symbols “BFAC” and “BFAC.WS,” respectively. Battery Future Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company with a business purpose to effect a merger, capital share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. While the Company may pursue an initial business combination target in any industry or geographic region (excluding China), it intends to focus its search on industries spearheading the shift from fossil fuels to electrification, including companies in the battery value chain from the mine site to end user to after-life battery and component recycling. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as the sole book-runner, and Roth Capital Partners acted as the co-manager for the offering.
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Client Alert
|March 31, 2025
|2 Min Read
When is Your Patent Yours, and When is It Yours to Lose?
In a recent March 17, 2025 summary judgment order, federal district court Judge Georgette Castner in the District of New Jersey invalidated a patent that had been filed before the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA) upon finding that a key feature of the invention, a pressure-activated cooling composition, had been created in a foreign factory rather than by the sole inventor named in the patent. Under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 102(f), “[a] person shall be entitled to a patent unless . . . he did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented.”
Sponsorship
|March 18, 2025
Winston Sponsors, Sara Susnjar Speaks at the Anti-Bribery & Corruption Forum
Winston & Strawn was a proud sponsor of the Anti-Bribery & Corruption Forum on March 18, 2025, in London where associate Laurine Petit attended insightful discussions and partner Sara Susnjar spoke on the “Multijurisdictional Compliance: Navigating Reporting, Investigations, and Conduct Across Multiple Jurisdictions” panel. The panel tackled the challenges of anti-bribery compliance across jurisdictions, including UK, France, China, and Italy.
Article
|March 12, 2025
|6 Min Read
Is AI Distillation By DeepSeek IP Theft?
This article was originally published in Law360. Reprinted with permission. 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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What Is the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)?
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) “establishes a rebuttable presumption that the importation of any goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, or produced by certain entities, is prohibited by Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and that such goods, wares, articles, and merchandise are not entitled to entry to the United States”... “The UFLPA also requires the interagency Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, chaired by the Secretary of Homeland Security, and in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and Director of National Intelligence, to develop and submit to Congress a strategy for supporting CBP’s enforcement of Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to goods, wares, articles, and merchandise produced with forced labor in the People’s Republic of China.”
Location
Located in Lujiazui, the center of this major financial hub of China, Winston’s Shanghai office consists of foreign-qualified attorneys who have studied and practiced Chinese law, and who excel at bridging the gap between Western and Chinese legal concepts as well as cultural and commercial differences.