Jeffrey M. Wintner has been a member of the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1992 and a partner since 1997. He focuses on products liability, mass tort, insurance, class action and appellate litigation, and in negotiating complex settlements. He is one of the principal negotiators of the Master Settlement Agreement among the leading members of the tobacco industry and the States.

Mr. Wintner graduated summa cum laude in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania, and received his law degree magna cum laude in 1989 from Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating law school, he served as law clerk to the Hon. Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for the 1990 term, and to the Hon. Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court for the 1991 term.