Practice Areas & Industries: Winston & Strawn LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Since the mid-1990s, Winston & Strawn's European attorneys have helped clients move their business objectives forward.  Our attorneys have extensive experience in international commerce and litigation, acquired by counseling and representing foreign clients in Europe as well as French businesses interested in expanding abroad. We also counsel and represent French businesses in the full array of their activities in France. Winston has 60 lawyers resident is Paris all of whom are members of the Paris bar and several of whom also are admitted to practice before one or more bars in the United States.

The attorneys in Paris practice in the following areas:

• business, banking, and finance
• labor and employment law
• litigation and arbitration
• environmental law
• public law
• tax law
• energy law
• real estate law

Winston's European lawyers in different practice groups regularly work with one another on matters requiring a combination of the particular skills and knowledge found in their different practices of law.

Representative Matters

Euraltech €25 Million Equity Offering
Oddo & Cie
Winston & Strawn represented Oddo Corporate Finance, a leading French investment bank in the mid-cap market, in connection with Euraltech's €25 million public equity offering. Euraltech is a French industrial systems engineering firm.      
 
Compagnie des Alpes €75.6 Million Public Offering
Oddo & Cie
Winston & Strawn represented Société Générale and Oddo & Cie, a leading French investment bank in the mid-cap market, in connection with a €75.6 million public offering by Compagnie des Alpes, a French ski resort and recreation parks operator.      
 
General de Alquiler de Maquinaria €103 Million IPO
General de Alquiler de Maquinaria
Winston & Strawn represented General de Alquiler de Maquinaria (GAM) in its €103 million initial public offering. GAM is a Spanish equipment rental company sponsored by Nmás1/Dinamia, a leading private equity group in Spain focused on the middle market.      
 
Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing GmbH & CoKG v. Lineas Aereas Azteca, S.A. de C.V.
Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing G
Winston & Strawn represented Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing, a major German aircraft leasing concern, in a claim against Lineas Aereas Azteca, a Mexican commercial airline, relating to the respondent’s non-performance of the terms of two Boeing 737 purchase agreements and to its unlawful continued possession and operation of the aircraft without paying compensation to the claimant. This dispute, which was tried in English and Spanish, involved a wide range of issues on procedural, substantive, and conflict of laws, under German and Mexican laws as well as ICC Rules of Arbitration. The ICC issued a final arbitral award granting Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing all of the relief it requested.      
 
Soitec €204 Million IPO
Soitec S.A.
Winston & Strawn represented Soitec in connection with its €204 million initial public offering listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange.      
 
Soitec €102 Million Convertible Bond Offering
Soitec S.A.
Winston & Strawn represented Soitec S.A. in connection with its €102 million convertible bond offering on the Paris bourse.