Nigel Winter was born in 1956. He developed his legal career in South Australia and was admitted as a legal practitioner there in 1979. His professional work has been closely connected with Adelaide's corporate and commercial legal community.
Winter obtained a Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to practice in South Australia in 1979. His legal education preceded a career in commercial and corporate practice in Adelaide.
Winter practised as a commercial lawyer in South Australia, with work encompassing banking and finance, capital raisings, commercial agreements, competition law, corporations law, corporate governance, corporate reconstruction and recovery, employment law, energy and resources, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, international trade and investment, litigation and dispute resolution, media and marketing law, mergers and acquisitions, privatisation, corporatisation, infrastructure and outsourcing, professional and directors' liability, property, taxation and revenue, and wines and beverages. He was a partner of Finlaysons before joining Tony Johnson and Peter Slattery in establishing Johnson Winter & Slattery in Adelaide in 1993. At Johnson Winter & Slattery he was associated particularly with banking, finance, corporate restructuring and corporate recovery. Winter also became publicly involved in South Australian political debate as a Liberal Party candidate and as a prominent business voice supporting electricity privatisation.
He was identified as a Liberal Party candidate in South Australia and participated publicly in debate concerning the privatisation of the state's electricity industry.
Winter was identified as a member of the International Business Alliance.
In 1993, Winter joined Tony Johnson and Peter Slattery in founding Johnson Winter & Slattery, an Adelaide-based specialist corporate and commercial law firm. The partnership was formed by lawyers who had been colleagues at Finlaysons and developed into a major independent Australian legal practice.
