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View Legal GuideRoutinely honored as one of the country's top lawyers in M&A and private equity work, Steven advises clients on the full range of corporate finance transactions, counseling boards of directors and other key leaders on matters of governance, oversight and structure. Please read more here: https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/gavin-steven-j.html
Bob Hayward – named a “Notable Gen X Leader” by Crain’s Chicago Business in 2021 and a “Trailblazer in the Midwest” by The American Lawyer in 2022 -- helps lead the team that has been awarded “Capital Markets Practice Group of the Year” numerous times by Law 360. Bob provides direct, thoughtful and practical advice to publicly-traded corporations — across all industries — and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in all ...
Lawrence Levin primarily represents public companies, private companies and investment banks on a wide range of regulatory, transactional and general corporate matters. He is the co-head of Katten's Corporate Securities practice in Chicago. Larry primarily advises publicly traded issuers on day-to-day federal securities law disclosure and compliance matters and board corporate governance. He also represents issuers and underwriters in offerings of equity, debt, Rule 144A high-yield offerings ...
Cab Morris concentrates his practice in securities and mergers and acquisitions. He works extensively with companies such as Motorola Solutions, Exelon Corporation (including its seven publicly registered subsidiaries), Hill-Rom, TreeHouse Foods, Newell Brands, GATX Corporation, Raymond James Financial, AMSTED Industries, Roper Technologies, and Illinois Tool Works, among others, on securities matters. He also regularly represents underwriters in public securities offerings, including Goldman...
Edward J. Schneidman is of counsel in the Corporate and Real Estate Groups in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His experience includes all aspects of corporate and securities laws with a focus on real estate capital markets-related matters. He has extensive experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital formation and public offering activities for REITs and other real estate-oriented companies. He has also advised clients on corporate and partnership liquida...
A member of Winston’s Executive Committee and winner of Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” honor for securities and capital markets work in Chicago, Bruce represents clients in a variety of securities and financial matters, advising major corporations on their M&A transactions, debt offerings and other key capital market strategies and governance matters. Please read more here: https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/toth-bruce-a.html
Head of the Securities practice group, Mark Wood is a highly skilled, pragmatic and client-focused practitioner with extensive experience representing public companies and investment banks in a wide variety of ongoing and transactional matters. These include IPOs and other public offerings of equity and debt securities, as well as mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions. Mark is also a leading advisor to institutional investors in highly structured private investment in public ...
David Huberman focuses his practice representing issuers and underwriters on capital raising transactions, including private and public offerings. He represents many Israeli companies in their initial public offerings on US stock exchanges, and ongoing compliance with US securities laws. David regularly represents technology and pharmaceutical companies currently traded, or on their way to the Nasdaq. Read full biography: https://www.gtlaw.com/en/professionals/h/huberman-david
Marisa Young focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and other general corporate matters. Marisa advises financial and strategic buyers, sellers and investors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, business formations, corporate restructurings and other complex business transactions. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/marisa-young/
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