Tim Burns is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Private Equity M&A Group. His practice focuses on representing private equity firms and other investors in a variety of corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures, investments and other strategic transactions. Burns’s experience includes expertise in strategic partnerships, hybrid capital, structured equity and real assets transactions.
Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Burns’s experience included advising:
Sponsor LBOs, Take-Privates, Control Transactions and Exits
- Goldman Sachs in multiple matters, including:
- its portfolio company Omega Healthcare Management Services in connection with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board’s investment in Omega
- its sale, alongside Eurazeo, of a 49% stake in Trader Interactive to carsales.com in a transaction that valued Trader at $1.6 billion
- OMERS Private Equity in multiple matters, including:
- its sale of Paradigm to Patient Square Capital
- its acquisition of Inmar
- American Securities in multiple matters, including its $1.6 billion sale of Royal Adhesives & Sealants
- Susquehanna Growth Equity and its portfolio companies in multiple matters, including:
- iContracts in its sale to RLDatix
- Reorg Research in its sale to Warburg Pincus
Institutional Sponsor Partnerships and Co-Underwrite Transactions
- BCI in multiple matters, including:
- its take-private, alongside Searchlight Capital Partners, of Consolidated Communications Holdings, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $3.1 billion
- its acquisition, alongside Gamut Capital, of PS Logistics from One Equity Partners
- CPP Investments’ Direct Private Equity Group in multiple matters, including:
- its $600 million investment in Boats Group
- the merger of The Ultimate Software Group with Kronos, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $22 billion
Hybrid Capital, Preferred Equity and Structured Investments
- Brookfield in multiple matters, including as a significant investor, in Anthropic’s $65 billion Series H financing round
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in multiple matters, including its participation in multiple investments in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)
Real Assets and Infrastructure-Adjacent Investments
- Brookfield in its capacity as a co-lead investor in a joint venture with OpenAI known as The OpenAI Deployment Company
- OMERS Private Equity in its minority investment in NovaSource Power Services
Additional Experience
- Brookfield Asset Management in multiple matters, including its acquisition of certain assets of J.C. Penney Company in connection with J.C. Penney’s chapter 11 case
- The Kroger Company in its joint venture with Lindsay Goldberg to form PearlRock Partners
