Steven P. Winter is a partner in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His practice focuses on representing corporations and directors, in litigation involving mergers and acquisitions, derivative and class action lawsuits, and complex commercial disputes.
Since joining the firm in 2008, Mr. Winter has worked on many of the firm’s other high-profile matters and transactions as well as multiple financial-crisis era matters for JPMorgan, including a complete summary judgment victory in multi-billion dollar litigation brought by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy estate and the resolution of class actions, bankruptcy litigation, and federal regulatory investigations arising out of MF Global’s collapse and Madoff’s fraud.
Mr. Winter has been recognized as one of the 500 Leading Litigators in America by Lawdragon, a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation, and a Rising Star by Super Lawyers for six consecutive years.
Mr. Winter received a B.A. summa cum laude with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Winter is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Federal Bar Council.
Clerkships:
- Honorable Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2010 – 2011
- Honorable Kimba Wood, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 2009 – 2010