Tim Burns is a partner in the firm’s 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. Tim’s experience includes expertise in strategic partnerships, hybrid capital, structured equity and real assets transactions.
Tim is recognized as an “Up and Coming” lawyer for Private Equity: Buyouts in New York by Chambers USA, a 2025 “Rising Star” for Private Equity by Law360 and was recommended for Private Equity Buyouts by Legal 500 US. Tim was also named among the 2025 “The Next Generation” list by Lawdragon 500 X, a “Rising Star” lawyer for Private Equity in the U.S. by IFLR1000 2025 and a 2023 “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor.
Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Tim’s experience included advising:
Sponsor LBOs, Take-Privates, Control Transactions and Exits
- Goldman Sachs in multiple matters, including:
- its acquisition of Schellman
- its portfolio company Omega Healthcare Management Services in connection with Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board’s investment in Omega
- its sale, alongside Eurazeo, of their remaining 51% stake in Trader Interactive to carsales.com in a transaction that valued Trader at $1.9 billion
- 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 portfolio company Premise Health in its acquisition of Crossover Health
- its sale of Paradigm to Patient Square Capital
- its portfolio company Epiq Systems in the sale of Epiq’s Global Business Transformation Solutions (Epiq GBTS) division to K2 Services
- its acquisition of Pueblo Mechanical & Controls
- its acquisition of TurnPoint Services
- its acquisition of Premise Health
- its acquisition of Paradigm Outcomes
- its acquisition of Inmar
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in multiple matters, including:
- its portfolio company APCO Holdings in its acquisition of National Auto Care
- its sale, alongside TA Associates, of Flexera Software to Thoma Bravo
- the recapitalization of BroadStreet Partners involving a new equity investment by affiliates of Century Equity Partners and a $100 million second lien debt and equity investment by affiliates of Penfund Partners
- its sale of a substantial minority stake in Flexera Software to TA Associates
- American Securities in multiple matters, including its $1.6 billion sale of Royal Adhesives & Sealants
- Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio company KIK Custom Products in its sale of its KIK Personal Care business
- Cornell Capital and its portfolio company Knowlton Development Corporation in the acquisition of CLA
- EQT Partners in multiple matters, including its portfolio company WS Audiology (f/k/a Sivantos) in its acquisitions of Clearwater Clinical and TruHearing
- Falconhead Capital and its portfolio company GPSi Holdings (a/k/a GPS Industries) in its sale to Ingersoll-Rand
- SoftBank Group in its $3.3 billion acquisition of Fortress Investment Group
- 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 acquisition, alongside AEA Investors, of Pave America from Trivest Partners and Shoreline Equity Partners
- its take-private, alongside Searchlight Capital Partners, of Consolidated Communications Holdings, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $3.1 billion
- its significant minority investment in Authority Brands
- its acquisition, alongside Gamut Capital, of PS Logistics from One Equity Partners
- its significant minority investment into Waterlogic, a portfolio company of Castik Capital, and in connection with the business combination of Waterlogic with Culligan International
- CPP Investments’ Direct Private Equity Group in multiple matters, including:
- its $600 million investment in Boats Group
- its strategic investment, alongside Stone Point Capital, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $7 billion
- its acquisition, alongside EQT Private Equity, of NEOGOV
- its approximately $1 billion investment in support of merger between Novolex (a portfolio company of Apollo) and Pactiv Evergreen that implies an enterprise value of the combined business of $6.7 billion
- its take-private, alongside Silver Lake, of Qualtrics in a transaction that implies an enterprise value of $12.5 billion
- the acquisition, alongside Blackstone, of Advarra, in a transaction that implies an enterprise value of $5 billion
- the recapitalization of Berlin Packaging alongside Oak Hill Capital Partners
- the take-private, alongside Advent International and Permira Advisers, of McAfee Corporation in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of over $14 billion
- the merger of The Ultimate Software Group with Kronos, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $22 billion
- its acquisition, alongside Permira and GIC, of a majority stake in Lytx, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $2.5 billion
- its take-private, alongside Hellman & Friedman, Blackstone and GIC, of The Ultimate Software Group, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $11 billion
- its investment, alongside Insight Venture Partners, in Veeam Software
- PSP Investments in multiple matters, including:
- its acquisition, alongside Onex, of Integrated Specialty Coverages from KKR
- alongside Convex Insurance, in Convex’s new long-term ownership structure led by Onex and American International Group
- its acquisition, alongside Investcorp, of PKF O'Connor Davies
- its acquisition, alongside Investcorp, of CrossCountry Consulting
- its sale, alongside Lightyear Capital, of Advisor Group (f/k/a AIG Advisor Group) to Reverence Capital Partners
- its minority investment in Alliant Insurance Services
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
- Bain Capital in its strategic growth investment in Duravent Group
- Warburg Pincus in multiple matters, including its $300 million investment partnership with Madison International Realty
- OMERS Private Equity and its portfolio company Paradigm Outcomes in its structured equity investment from Neuberger Berman Capital Solution
- Goldman Sachs in multiple matters, including:
- its $1 billion equity investment and subordinated debt financing in World Insurance Associates in a transaction that valued World Insurance at $3.4 billion
- its $300 million preferred equity investment in Madhive
- its $325 million preferred equity investment in iSpot.tv
- CPPIB Credit in multiple matters, including its capital investment in David’s Bridal
- Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in multiple matters, including its participation in multiple investments in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)
- Hayfin Capital Management in the sale of Paradigm Spine for up to $300 million
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
- CPP Investments’ Sustainable Energies Group in multiple matters, including:
- its $1.2 billion financing for Caturus’s Commonwealth LNG project
- its $1 billion investment in AlphaGen
- alongside Glencore and BCI, as shareholders, in Viterra’s approximately $18 billion business combination with Bunge
- OMERS Private Equity in its minority investment in NovaSource Power Services
- PSP Investments in the merger of Loral Space & Communications and Telesat Canada to form a new publicly-traded Telesat Corporation
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
- Soros Fund Management in its acquisition via a plan of reorganization of Violin Memory
- The Kroger Company in its joint venture with Lindsay Goldberg to form PearlRock Partners
