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Energy

Winston offers a full-service energy practice. With four decades of experience handling a broad array of services for participants across the energy industry and in key markets worldwide, our practitioners have developed a deep familiarity and keen sense of the market. Our experience spans electric generation, transmission, distribution, and fuel supply and transportation in the power sector—including conventional and renewable resources—as well as the upstream, midstream, downstream, and oilfield services segments in the oil and gas sector. Additionally, our team is at the forefront of the flourishing market for energy transition, and we bring practical experience, perspective, and innovative thinking to this rapidly expanding segment of energy sector....Read more

Practice Area

Finance

Keeping a deal moving forward can be challenging. Our 100+ Finance attorneys help clients maintain momentum with a commitment to understanding the challenges, risks, and opportunities they face. Our team has developed great insights through the representation of financial institutions and corporate enterprises of all types and sizes in the finance industry. We have a well-rounded finance practice, with dedicated teams that advise banks, credit funds, alternative capital providers, sponsors, and corporations on a wide range of transactions including debt finance (leveraged, asset-based, and reserve-based lending), fund finance, structured finance, derivatives and structured products, project finance, and transportation finance....Read more

Practice Area

Labor & Employment

Our Labor & Employment Practice is one of the largest and most experienced practices among the country’s multi-disciplined law firms. Our attorneys represent global employers of all types and sizes—ranging from the Fortune 100 to privately held startups—often serving as national, regional, or preferred counsel to many of these major employers....Read more

Insights & News 556 results

Benefits Blast

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November 20, 2024

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2 Min Read

The Internal Revenue Service Health and Welfare Limits for 2025

The Internal Revenue Service recently published limits for 2025 in Revenue Procedure 2024-40. Below we have outlined health and welfare limits for 2025 and the changes in those limits from 2024.

Recognitions

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November 6, 2024

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1 Min Read

Winston & Strawn Named a Leading Firm Taking Care of the Planet in Lamp House’s Annual Report

Winston & Strawn is proud to be recognized in Lamp House Strategy’s second annual report on responsible business activity. Now part of Chambers and Partners, Lamp House named Winston a Leading Firm in the U.S. and ranked us a top 5 U.S. law firm in the Planet category. The firm was also recognized for having one of the largest year-over-year score increases....Read more

Product Liability & Mass Torts Digest

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October 28, 2024

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4 Min Read

Third-Party Litigation Financing Under the Spotlight: Judicial Conference Subcommittee Formed to Explore Disclosure Rules

Third-party litigation financing is a significant issue in the U.S. legal system, with its use playing an increasingly important role in litigation. Whether a party should be, or is, required to disclose litigation funding from a third party, and the terms of that funding, has been the subject of heated debate for some time.

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Los Angeles

Serving one of the world’s largest economies for over 20 years, Winston & Strawn’s Los Angeles office is home to more than 100 attorneys and professional staff. Under the guidance of Office Managing Partner Angela M. Machala, our L.A. office thrives as a dynamic and tightly knit community that celebrates diversity, with more than half of our L.A. attorneys identifying as women, racial/ethnic minorities, and/or LGBTQ+. Our L.A. lawyers—who are equally split between litigation and transactional work—advise 80+ Fortune 500 companies, which is a testament to the collaborative environment we’ve created to provide exceptional legal services....Read more

Site Content

What Are Flash Loans?

Flash loans are a subset of smart contracts where uncollateralized loans are made to a buyer and re-paid in the same series of transactions. Flash loans represent essentially risk-free arbitrage opportunities; for example, if a cryptocurrency is being traded for $1 on one exchange and for $2 on another, a savvy trader can use smart contracts to take out a flash loan of $100 worth of the cryptocurrency on the first exchange, sell it for $200 on the second exchange, repay the loan, and pocket the extra $100 as profit as part of a single instantaneous transaction. Flash loans are usually risk-free for lenders as well; if there is no contract executed to return the amount loaned, the initial loan will never be made....Read more
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