Thomas Winter studied law in Saarbrücken, Nantes (France) and Freiburg. During his legal traineeship he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg.
After completing his doctorate in medical liability law, Thomas Winter first worked for the Boston Consulting Group and then for the international law firm Haarmann Hemmelrath. From 2003 he was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Krämer and an independent lawyer at a firm specialising in litigation. In November 2013 he was admitted to the bar of the Federal Court of Justice and then spent three years as a partner of the firm Krämer Winter.
At the start of 2017, Thomas Winter founded the law firm Rohnke Winter together with Christian Rohnke. From 1 January 2024 he and his team practised under the name WINTER, Lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice. Following Sophie Thürk’s appointment as a lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice, the two founded Winter | Thürk.
Thomas Winter sits on the advisory board of the Munich Center for Dispute Resolution, lectures at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and is one of the four general editors of the Beck Online Großkommentar zum Zivilprozessrecht (the comprehensive online commentary on German civil procedure), as well as a co-editor of the journal SchiedsVZ.