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Executive Compensation Plans & Agreements
Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) attorneys generally focus on two separate but related areas—employee benefits and executive compensation. We advise corporations, boards of directors, private equity firms, and executives on all legal, design, drafting, negotiation, and compliance aspects of executive compensation matters. We advise corporations, firms, fiduciaries, executives, administrators, governmental entities, and financial institutions on innovative and traditional employee retirement and health and welfare benefits programs. Our substantial experience and over 50 years of involvement in the EBEC field have given us a deep understanding of the evolution of benefits law and the market for executive compensation.
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Derivatives & Structured Products
Winston represents swap dealers, major swap participants, financial intermediaries, hedge funds, national exchanges, and end-users in a broad array of derivative transactions ranging from highly structured transactions to more traditional trading or hedging transactions, and in regulatory and enforcement issues related to commodities and derivatives.
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Class Actions & Group Litigation
Winston has developed a consistent record of success handling class action cases in state and federal courts. The practice is anchored by seasoned class action lawyers, many of whom have been recognized by Chambers USA and other ranking organizations as being top practitioners in their field. Our clients rely on us to steer them through class action matters by drawing on the firm’s significant experience in resolving complex litigation using creative and aggressive arguments, across a broad range of class, collective, coordinated, and mass actions, as well multidistrict litigation. We also have succeeded at trial in several class actions—a rare occurrence.
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Experience
|November 11, 2024
Experience
|October 30, 2024
Drilling Tools International in Agreement to Acquire Titan Tools Services
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Competition Corner
|November 22, 2024
|4 Min Read
Supreme Court’s Rejection of DOJ Appeal Could Shift the Landscape for Bid-Rigging Prosecutions
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the request from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that overturned the bid-rigging conviction of a former engineering firm executive because the indictment did not allege a per se antitrust violation.
Article
|November 21, 2024
|10+ Min Read
How To Safely Leverage AI In The Digital Assets Industry
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.
Press Release
|November 21, 2024
|3 Min Read
Chicago – November 21, 2024 – Special Prosecutor Dan K. Webb issued the statement below following the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision today overturning the convictions and sentence of Jussie Smollett based on a finding that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office entered into a “non-prosecution agreement” with Mr. Smollett. All of this conduct happened 5 months prior to the appointment of Dan K. Webb as Special Prosecutor:
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Law Glossary
What Is Consumer Targeting Law?
The protection of consumers’ privacy online is addressed within the field of consumer targeting law. The Federal Trade Commission’s Behavioral Advertising Principles recommend that websites disclose data collection policies, which are used to create consumer-targeted advertising. The FTC also advises that websites allow consumers to opt out of data collection. The FTC Act can be used to charge companies that do not adhere to their stated consumer privacy policies, do not protect consumer data, or do not provide adequate notifications of privacy policy changes. The law does not require all companies to provide privacy policies, though financial firms must disclose their information-sharing policies to their customers.
Site Content
A federal contract is a binding contract or agreement with an authorized official of any agency or department of the U.S. Government for the purpose of purchasing goods, products or services of any kind, or purchasing, renting, or leasing property, for the direct use or benefit of the U.S. Government. Federal contracts are the procurement mechanism the U.S. Government uses to obtain such goods, products, services, and property across all sectors and industries. Federal contracts may be express or implied and may be of various different types, e.g., fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, time and materials, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ).
Law Glossary
What Is Privacy Assessment Law?
The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a method of privacy risk identification. It is an analysis of how personally identifiable information is collected, used, shared, and maintained by an organization’s system. Within the area of privacy assessment law, companies perform PIAs to verify and document that they are in compliance with state or federal privacy regulations for protecting personally identifiable information. The impact assessment identifies the risks of collecting and sharing personally identifiable information.