Winston & Strawn

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Winston & Strawn has been helping its clients successfully create and build their businesses in Africa for more than a decade. We provide an array of services to clients involved in commercial and financial transactions, investments, and project finance, and acquisitions among others involving African countries. In addition, we have advised client on regulatory compliance and dispute resolution.

Our labor and employment department represents employers of all types and sizes—ranging from the Fortune 100 to privately held startups, including businesses both foreign and domestic. Our substantively knowledgeable and responsive team manages several significant national and regional labor and employment engagements. In addition, we regularly handle complex litigation matters involving hard-hitting issues, including major class and collective actions, with an emphasis on wage and hour and ERISA litigation.

For more than 160 years, Winston & Strawn LLP has served as a trusted adviser and advocate for clients across virtually every industry. In that time, through careful growth and thoughtful fiscal management, we have built a law practice with tremendous breadth and a global reach. We are proud of the many accolades we have received over the years—a tribute to our lawyers’ creativity, flexibility, depth of experience, and commitment. The most meaningful accolade to us, though, is the continued trust and confidence of our clients.

Our lawyers also have direct experience advising clients headquartered in Africa in a variety of key sectors, including banking and finance, telecommunications, hospitality and leisure, mining, oil and gas, energy and projects and infrastructure.

Our team has extensive experience dealing with the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Maritime Administration, U.S. Transportation Command, and the Military Sealift Command. In addition, our maritime team is supported by the full resources of the firm, including our corporate, restructuring, environmental, tax, litigation, labor and employment, and energy practices.

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