Winston & Strawn LLP has continued its prominence in SPAC IPOs and business combinations, advising a huge client base of SPACs and also advising on equity offerings for corporate issuers. New York-based David Sakowitz leads the capital markets team, which includes Houston-based SPAC specialist Mike Blankenship. Jason Osborn is another key partner in New York. Carol Anne Huff has left the firm.
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Testimonials
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‘Proactive, on top of everything, professional, on-time delivery.’
‘Mike Blankenship has been a great leader of the team, helping us in several deals. We believe Winston team has been essential to our on-time launch of transactions.’
Key clients
- AlphaVest Acquisition Corp.
- BofA Securities
- Braiin Limited
- Clear Street LLC
- Digital Virgo
- dMY Technology Group Inc
- Docter Inc.
- Ducommun Incorporated
- Dune Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: DUNE)
- EF Hutton
- Estrella Biopharma, Inc.
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Healthwell Acquisition Corp. I (Nasdaq: HWEL)
- Investcorp India Acquisition Corp.
- Jefferies & Company, Inc.
- Mobiv Acquisition Corp.
- NexPoint Advisors
- Nxu Inc. (fka Atlis Motors)
- Oppenheimer & Co.
- Picard Medical Inc.
- Quantum FinTech Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: QFTA)
- Revere Securities LLC
- Roadzen, Inc.
- Rubicon Technologies, Inc.
- Stonebridge Acquisition Corp.
- U.S. Tiger Securities, Inc.
Work highlights
- Represented Roadzen in the completion of its business combination with Vahanna Tech Edge Acquisition I Corp.
- Advised Chart Industries in connection with the acquisition of Howden, which included a registered public offering of over $600m of Chart’s common stock and a registered public offering of $300m of depositary shares.
- Represented Stonebridge Acquisition Corp on its announced business combination agreement with DigiAsia Bios.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Sakowitz