Ms. Winters is counsel in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Litigation Department. She has recently represented both individual and corporate clients in a variety of criminal and regulatory matters, as well as in connection with related confidential internal investigations. She also has worked on a variety of civil matters, including antitrust, securities and M&A litigations. Recently she has represented an insurance broker and a private loan institution in connection with industry investigations conducted by the New York Attorney General; mutual funds and broker-dealers in connection with investigations conducted by the New York Attorney General and the SEC regarding mutual fund trading; a major investment bank in connection with an investigation by the federal government of the bank’s IPO allocation practices; and a senior software company executive in connection with criminal and SEC investigations into various accounting practices.

She joined Davis Polk in 1997 and became counsel in 2004.

Ms. Winters graduated, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1989 and in 1994 received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, from 1994 to 1995 and for the Honorable John M. Walker Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1996 to 1997. She is admitted to the bar of New York.