About Winston & Strawn Winston & Strawn is an international law firm with 1,000 attorneys across 16 offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Dubai, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Moscow, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. For more than 160 years, Winston has served as a trusted adviser and advocate to Asian and international companies in a broad array of industries. Globally, Winston’s regulatory and compliance team has over 100 attorneys, including a team of former prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and former fortune 500 compliance officers.
Winner of the China Business Law Journal’s 2019 Anti-Bribery & Compliance Award, Winston’s regulatory and compliance practice in China is led by a former U.S. federal prosecutor and a former Chief Compliance Officer for a Fortune 500 company. Combined with the team’s local knowhow and language capabilities, Winston has developed a practice with solid experience spanning industries including life science, financial services, professional services, manufacturing, retail and consumer products, technology, and many more. The team assists Chinese and international companies in highly sensitive regulatory and internal investigations, enforcement defense, and preemptive compliance matters related to trade secret theft, technology and data security, financial fraud, and violations of anti-bribery and other laws. Our attorneys have experience pertaining to international regulators such as the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as well as regulatory authorities in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Our extensive experience allows us to approach compliance and investigations in China with in-depth understanding of the potential business, legal, and regulatory ramifications, as well as the sensitivity and complexity of employment, data-protection, and attorney-client privilege issues.