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Winston & Strawn LLP Offices
35 WEST WACKER DRIVE
CHICAGO, IL 60601-9703
ILLINOIS
United States
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Work Department
Complex Commercial Litigation
Position
Sean G. Wieber – Litigator | Winston & Strawn
Sean focuses his practice on a variety of complex commercial and class action litigation matters. As co-chair of Winston’s Global Privacy & Data Security and Regulated Personal Information (RPI) practices, Sean has vast experience advising clients on privacy, data breach, and consumer matters (brought as class actions or as individuals) under various federal and state laws that are primarily enforced through private right of action, such as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (FTSA), the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA), and the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). He is also the Chair of the firm’s TCPA, BIPA, and GIPA litigation practices.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
Winston & Strawn LLP‘s global privacy and data security practice group covers the full spectrum of privacy matters, including knowledge of evolving regulatory changes and specialised healthcare sector expertise. ‘Excellent’ Sean Wieber co-heads the team from Chicago, recommended for privacy litigation matters across the banking, retail, technology and telecommunications industries. Also in Chicago, co-head Alessandra Swanson is noted for expertise regarding internal privacy investigations, regulatory defense, and breach response. Working across Los Angeles and Chicago, 2023 partner Kevin Simpson focuses on class action defense in the sector. Former practice co-head Sheryl Falk retired in August 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- International trade > CFIUS
- Government > Government contracts