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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....Read more

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Structured Finance

Our structured finance group is widely recognized as a leader, encompassing Esoteric Finance, Residential Asset Finance and Securitization, and CLOs/Fund Finance. Positioned prominently at the forefront of the industry, our team boasts extensive experience across a broad spectrum of assets, with a particular focus on bespoke structures and emerging and/or “esoteric” assets, including residential and commercial PACE, RMBS, and CMBS; aircraft, vessel, and railcar finance; FinTech and marketplace lending; CLOs; specialty finance; consumer and business lending; energy structured finance (including solar finance and reserve-based finance); derivatives and structured products; lease and operating asset finance; trade receivables; litigation settlement financing; and life settlements....Read more

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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....Read more

Experience 4 results

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January 16, 2024

Represented The Honey Pot Company Holdings, LLC, a leading better-for-you feminine care brand, in the sale of a controlling stake in the business to Compass Diversified (NYSE: CODI)

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September 20, 2021

Socieded Química y Minera de Chile S.A. US$700M 3.500% Notes due 2051 ("Green" Bond Offering)

Winston & Strawn LLP represented Socieded Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) in connection with its first "green" bond offering of US$700M principal amount of 3.500% Notes due 2051 (the “Green Bonds”). The Green Bonds were sold in an offering exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. The proceeds of the Green Bonds will be used to finance or refinance recently completed or future eligible green projects with respect to lithium production capacity expansion for applications related to clean transportation and energy efficiency. Disbursements may cover project expenditures for up to 36 months preceding the issuance of the Green Bonds and until their maturity date. BofA Securities, Inc.; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC; J.P. Morgan Securities; and Santander Investment Securities Inc. acted as initial purchasers of the Green Bonds. SQM is a Chile-based global leader in the production of specialty plant nutrients, iodine and derivatives, lithium and derivatives, potassium, and certain industrial chemicals....Read more

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June 21, 2021

Calvin Gin and Affiliates Acquire Luby’s Cafeteria

Winston & Strawn LLP represented Calvin Gin and his affiliates in his acquisition of the Luby’s Cafeteria restaurant business from Luby's, Inc. (NYSE: LUB). Mr. Gin is a member of the storied Gin Family, who established The Flying Food Group by Sue Gin, which has grown to the third-largest airline catering company in North America and provides food preparation services for others, including Starbucks, throughout the United States. The purchase by the Gin affiliate (to be renamed "Luby's Restaurants Corp." following the closing of the transaction) will include 32 of the existing locations of Luby's restaurants, all in Texas, and ownership of the Luby's Cafeteria brand, which according to Mr. Gin, is “one of the iconic brands in the Texas restaurant market.” The structure of the transaction will allow Luby's to sell its real estate related to its cafeteria restaurant business to third parties and realize the related value for its shareholders. It is currently anticipated, following the closing of the transaction, that almost all employees at the 32 involved locations will be offered positions by the purchaser to remain at those store locations, employment that will likely total over 1,000 associates. The Luby's Cafeteria operations sale transaction could provide Luby's with approximately US$28.7M of value (all but a nominal amount of which will be derived from the purchaser's assumption of Luby's liabilities and the purchaser's issuance of notes to Luby's). The sale of the Luby's Cafeteria operations is another step in the execution of the previously announced plan of Luby's to sell its assets, pay its liabilities, and return the remaining cash to shareholders under the Company's previously announced plan of liquidation and dissolution approved by its shareholders on November 17, 2020....Read more
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Global Trade & Foreign Policy Insights

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March 7, 2025

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2 Min Read

Executive Order Directs Investigation to Consider a Global Copper-Import Tariff

On February 25, 2025, President Trump signed the “Addressing The Threat To National Security From Imports of Copper” Executive Order., which orders the Department of Commerce to investigate the effects of copper imports on national security, which could lead to tariffs on all copper imports. The United States currently imports just under half of the refined copper it consumes. More than 90% of the copper imported by the United States comes from Chile, Canada, and Peru.

Capital Markets & Securities Law Watch

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March 5, 2025

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SEC Dismisses Enforcement Action Against Coinbase; Staff Issues Guidance on Meme Coins

On February 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) announced that it has filed a joint stipulation with Coinbase, Inc. and Coinbase Global, Inc. to dismiss the Commission’s civil suit against the two entities. The same day, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) issued a staff statement clarifying that meme coins are not securities.

Non-Fungible Insights: Blockchain Decrypted

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February 28, 2025

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SEC Staff Under New Administration Issues Statement Declaring That Meme Coins Are Not Securities

On February 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a staff statement (Staff Statement) that clarifies that meme coins, defined as “a type of crypto asset inspired by internet memes, characters, current events, or trends for which the promoter seeks to attract an enthusiastic online community to purchase the meme coin and engage in its trading,” are not securities.

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Other Results 21 results

Law Glossary

What Is the Patent Trial and Appeal Board?

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a tribunal within U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The PTAB oversees trial proceedings, namely: inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), covered business method (CBM) review, and derivation proceedings. The Board also hears appeals from adverse patentability decisions by patent examiners in original applications, reissues, and reexaminations. And, while phasing out since the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, the PTAB is also responsible for deciding interferences. The PTAB was previously referred to as the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and was renamed by the AIA....Read more

Law Glossary

What Is a Biologic?

A biologic—or biologic product—is a medicine made from or by living cells, typically through a series of complex processing steps. The Public Health Service Act defines a “biological product” as “a virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, vaccine, blood, blood component or derivative, allergenic product, protein (except any chemically synthesized polypeptide), or analogous product, or arsphenamine or derivative of arsphenamine (or another trivalent organic arsenic compound), applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of a disease or condition of human beings.” (42 U.S.C. § 262(i).)...Read more

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What Is the Dodd-Frank Act?

The full name of the Dodd-Frank Act is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It was passed in 2010 to regulate the financial market and protect consumers from risky financial practices. The legislation and its rules cover the following:...Read more
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