Jason is a corporate partner in Winston & Strawn’s Chicago office and represents clients in complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, and in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters.TRANSACTIONAL EXPERTISEo Act as a principal in structuring, documenting and negotiating complex transactions, including:• mergers and acquisitions• private financings• recapitalizations and restructurings (in and out of formal bankruptcy proceedings)• joint ventureso Draft and negotiate letters of intent, purchase agreements and recapitalization documento formations of platforms with “roll-up” strategies, managing integration of sequential acquisitionsGENERAL CORPORATE EXPERTISEo Advise clients with respect to corporate governanceo Review and analyze employment, compensation, incentive equity and options and consulting arrangementso Draft and negotiate equity documentso Draft and negotiate a variety of complex commercial agreements across a number of functional areas, including long-term supply agreements, distribution, intellectual property and software licenses. debt finance agreements), services agreements, brokerage agreements and confidentiality agreementsSUPERVISING LEGAL PROCESSESo Advising management and in-house counsel and working with their accountants and other advisorso Manage teams of lawyers (including associates, specialists and staff members, regulatory counsel and counsel in foreign jurisdictions) with respect to developing work streams, time management, budgeting and project-specific work productThis profile may constitute attorney advertising.