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Are you a 1L interested in learning about Winston & Strawn LLP? Join us for our Home for the Holidays receptions taking place across the country. These events provide a chance to: 🗸 Learn about our collegial culture and the meaningful work we undertake. 🗸 Meet and network with lawyers from various practice areas. 🗸 Gain valuable insights into our summer associate program and career paths at our firm. Space is limited, register via the links below: 📍 Los Angeles: January 6 | 5:00 PM PST | https://bit.ly/3DBzsll 📍 Dallas: January 6 | 5:00 PM CST | https://bit.ly/4fKCfGb 📍 New York: January 7, 2025, at 5:00 PM EST | https://bit.ly/4gBnhUc 📍 Bay Area: January 8 | 5:30 PM PST | https://bit.ly/3DGKw0v 📍 Washington, D.C.: January 8 | 5:30 PM EST | https://bit.ly/4j1AkQf   We look forward to connecting with you this winter! #ChooseWinston #lawstudents #1L

Join our Global Privacy and Data Security Practice for a monthly webinar series focused on the key issues our clients face in the ever-changing privacy legal landscape, along with tips on how to address the related risks.   In the inaugural installment, Sean Wieber, Alessandra Swanson, Kevin Simpson, and Eric Shinabarger will discuss the most important privacy trends to watch in the coming year. Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/3PkvLD4

We are proud to sponsor Information Management Network (IMN)’s Second Annual Residential Lenders Forum on DSCR & RTL. The forum is the preeminent event for exploring the evolving landscape of commercial and residential loan underwriting and the methodologies lenders use to determine loan sizes within their portfolios. Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/3P2JfTX Chris Gavin | Michael Lyon | #WinstonTransactions

⏱️ There’s still time to apply to our 2025 Summer Vacation Scheme! Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of an energetic, supportive team with a reputation for delivering results. 📆 Graduate applications are open until 31 January 2025. Learn more and apply here: https://bit.ly/3NJQqzK #ChooseWinston #VacationScheme

In the latest surprise coming out of the Fifth Circuit, just a few days after issuance of the Stay Order, the Clerk of the Fifth Circuit, acting at the direction of the Court, entered a two-page order vacating the court’s Stay Order “in order to preserve the constitutional status quo while the merits panel considers the parties’ weighty substantive arguments.” What should you do now? Read our CTA Task Force’s recommendations in this client alert. https://bit.ly/3BZ9l78 Carl Fornaris | Monica Lopez-Rodriguez | Ryan Greenberg | #corporatetransparencyact

We recently covered the unexpected and sweeping order by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, which preliminarily enjoined the U.S. government from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act and its beneficial ownership reporting rule and stayed the CTA’s January 1, 2025, filing deadline for reporting companies created in or registered to do business in the United States before 2024. Our key question arising from the preliminary injunction was whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit would stay—i.e., halt—the effectiveness of Judge Mazzant’s preliminary injunction before the BOI Reporting Rule’s January 1, 2025, compliance deadline. Yesterday, in an unexpected per curiam order, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit indeed stayed Judge Mazzant’s preliminary injunction.  https://bit.ly/3Dp16ld Carl Fornaris | Monica Lopez-Rodriguez | Ryan Greenberg | #corporatetransparencyact

In November 2023, the State of New York filed a lawsuit alleging that PepsiCo endangered public health and polluted the Buffalo River in upstate New York related to single-use plastic packaging from its products. New York sought to hold PepsiCo liable for the independent actions of third parties under a novel theory of liability. In October 2024, the State of New York’s complaint was dismissed, with the court forcefully rejecting this theory of liability. Whether plaintiffs advancing similar arguments in other jurisdictions will fare any better remains to be seen. https://bit.ly/4h7RQ3N   Sam Trimbach | Josh Brown | #environmentallaw

The EU remains dedicated to combatting sanction evasion. Aspects of the new package include individuals and entities from third countries such as China, Hong Kong, Serbia, India, Iran, and United Arab Emirates that either helped circumvent EU sanctions or supplied dual-use components to the Russian military sector.   The new package continues to align—in both content and timeliness—with measures taken by the United States. https://bit.ly/407C82H   Sara Susnjar | Laurine Petit | #sanctions #EU #Russia

To understand how monumental the proposed SHIPS for America Act is, Charlie Papavizas reviews past efforts by the U.S. to support its merchant marine in his latest MaritimeFedWatch blog post. https://bit.ly/4iWcSnE #maritime #SHIPSforAmerica #shipping

Financial Services Practice Co-Chair Carl Fornaris was quoted in American Banker discussing the feasibility of the Trump transition team’s proposal to merge major U.S. banking regulators. Read Carl’s insights here: https://bit.ly/4fz6oIv