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Winston takes a strategic approach to privacy and data security, integrating cross-practice capabilities to provide our clients with cutting-edge counseling; trade secret protection and investigations; cybersecurity incident investigations, including breach and ransomware; data-security class action litigation; and international data protection. Our Global Privacy & Data Security Practice features a core team of more than 20 privacy professionals and is bolstered by over 60 attorneys from a variety of other disciplines firmwide. Our team combines compliance counselors, transactional lawyers, former government regulators and federal prosecutors, seasoned investigators, and experienced litigators. Few firms can rival our in-depth, sophisticated, and integrated experience in this area.
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Securities, M&A & Corporate Governance Litigation
In today’s market, litigators with experience in securities, corporate governance, and M&A-related (collectively, “securities litigation”) matters need to leverage their broad experience to serve as both advocate and as counsel and strategist, focused on helping clients to overcome not just a legal issue but a collective business problem. Given the frequent interplay between things such as corporate-control transactions, public offerings, activist shareholders, the use of complex derivatives and other financial instruments, bad news impacting stock performance, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and insurance coverage, strategic and tactical litigation decisions can have a wide-ranging impact on the success of a given transaction, as well as on companies, their boards, senior management, and advisors.
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Our capital markets and securities attorneys represent U.S. and international issuers, institutional investors, underwriters, and placement agents in a wide variety of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.
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|October 15, 2024
Experience
|September 27, 2024
Winston Represents KeHE Distributors, LLC in a $250.0 Million Senior Secured Notes Tack-On Offering
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|August 21, 2024
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Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch
|November 21, 2024
|3 Min Read
SEC Announces Enforcement Action Against Gatekeepers
Recent enforcement actions targeting a CEO, CFO, and an audit committee chair underscores the SEC's focus on gatekeeper accountability.
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|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.
Pro Bono In Action
|November 19, 2024
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Winston Teams Up With Accenture to Secure Asylum for Venezuelan Freedom Fighter
Winston & Strawn joined forces with our client Accenture to help a pro bono client obtain political asylum in the United States and freedom from the surveillance, violence, and unlawful detention inflicted upon her by the Venezuelan government of authoritarian dictator Nicolás Maduro.
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What Is the Securities Act of 1933?
The Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the “Securities Act”) was passed to ensure that investors have financial and other important information about securities that are being sold publicly. It also bans the use of fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation in the sales of securities. The Securities Act, which is also referred to as the “truth in securities” law, is part of a legislative effort to govern and oversee the securities industry.
Law Glossary
Though the U.S. has not passed legislation dealing solely with data security law, organizations are expected to safeguard sensitive information and establish privacy policies. Legislation addressing specific types of sensitive data is found within various U.S. laws, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
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What Is the Securities Exchange Act of 1934?
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, the “Exchange Act”) established the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) and gave it the power to oversee the securities industry. Through the Exchange Act, the SEC gained the authority to register, regulate, and oversee brokerage firms, transfer agents, and clearing agencies. The Commission also has authority over the U.S. securities self-regulatory organizations (SROs), including: The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Market, Chicago Board of Options, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. SROs must have guidelines in place to make sure investors are protected.