Practice Areas & Industries: Winston & Strawn LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

At the core of Winston & Strawn’s financial services practice is its investment management team, which includes attorneys in the firm's New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and London offices.  Our investment management team provides integrated advice on the structuring of businesses and products in the United States and Europe, including all relevant regulatory compliance matters affecting investment management and brokerage operations. 

The members of our investment management practice area work closely with the other attorneys in our financial services practice who focus on securities and futures brokerage and exchange transactional and regulatory matters and those who focus on over-the-counter derivative instruments and structured products.  Using this team approach, for example, we are able to guide our clients in the use of various leveraging techniques, such as using derivatives to gain exposure to underlying investments or joint back-office (JBO) arrangements with broker-dealers.  We also are able to guide our clients in the use of various techniques to increase operating efficiencies, such as obtaining exchange memberships for hedge funds to reduce trading costs. 

The investment management team has significant depth and breadth of experience in all of the following areas of the investment management business.

Representative Matters:
 
Establishment of dedicated licensed fund management company
We succesfully assisted a large French mutual insurance company in the establishment of a dedicated licensed fund management company with more than €2 billion under management.