Weil is advising Brookfield in its capacity as a co-lead investor in a joint venture with OpenAI known as The OpenAI Deployment Company (“DeployCo”), a new company designed to help organizations build and deploy AI systems they can rely on every day across their most important work. DeployCo was announced on May 11.

Brookfield is investing alongside 18 other leading global investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators and DeployCo will launch with more than $4 billion of initial investment, which it will use to scale operations and acquire firms that can accelerate OpenAI’s mission of broadly beneficial AI deployment.

The Weil team is led by Private Equity partner Timothy Burns, counsel Liam Rozanski and associate Michelle Le and includes Restructuring partners David J. Cohen and Garrett Fail and associates Matthew Conte and Jennifer Schein; Tax partner Jason Vollbracht and associate Sarah Yue; Regulatory Transactions partner Shawn Cooley and associate Colin Cox, Executive Compensation & Benefits partner Sarah Downie, Capital Markets partner Ashley Butler, Antitrust partners Jeff White and Michael Naughton and counsel Carla Hine and Marie-Marie de Fays; and Real Estate partner Jessica Pillai.