Los Angeles

Winston’s Los Angeles office opened in October 1999, expanding the firm’s presence to the West Coast. The firm soon moved the L.A. office to a larger space in the Wells Fargo Center to accommodate its steady growth. We now have 67 attorneys in the L.A. office who practice in several of the firm’s core practice areas—litigation, labor and employment relations, corporate, energy, and real estate—on a national and regional basis.

The firm's recent addition of a prominent energy practice group in Los Angeles and San Francisco was a major milestone in the growth of Winston's West Coast offices. In L.A., this practice encompasses regulatory, infrastructure and finance law emphasizing independent energy development, operation, restructuring and privatization.

On the corporate side, the L.A. office focuses on commercial, real estate, and venture financings, as well as leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions. Our restructuring and insolvency attorneys in L.A. are regularly called upon to represent creditors committees and debtors in major Chapter 11 matters, as well as handle DIP financings for lenders. The firm's L.A. office has achieved particular prominence in the defense of wage and hour class actions, and also has built a successful practice handling complex securities and commercial cases, including class actions, as well as international arbitration matters.