Timothy F. Burns

Tim was recognized as a 2025 “Rising Star” for Private Equity by Law360 and was recommended for Private Equity Buyouts by Legal 500 US, where clients note he “punches above his weight. He understands the business rationale and has a very commercial mindset.” 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.

Tim’s relevant experience includes the following representations:

• American Securities in multiple matters, including in its $1.6 billion sale of Royal Adhesives & Sealants, LLC. 
• BCI in multiple matters, including:
• in its acquisition, together with AEA Investors, of Pave America, LLC from Trivest Partners and Shoreline Equity Partners,
• in its take-private, together with Searchlight Capital Partners, of Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $3.1 billion,
• its significant minority investment in Authority Brands,
• in its acquisition, together with Gamut Capital, of PS Logistics, LLC, from One Equity Partners, and
• its significant minority investment into Waterlogic, a portfolio company of Castik Capital, and in connection with the business combination of Waterlogic with Culligan International.
• Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in multiple matters, including its acquisition of certain assets of J. C. Penney Company, Inc. in connection with J.C. Penney’s chapter 11 case.
• Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio company KIK Custom Products, Inc. in its sale of its KIK Personal Care business.
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company Knowlton Development Corporation in the acquisition of CLA.
• CPP Investments’ Direct Private Equity group in multiple matters, including,
• in its strategic investment, together with funds managed by Stone Point Capital, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $7 billion,
• in its acquisition, together with 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,
• in its take-private, together with Silver Lake, of Qualtrics in a transaction that implies an enterprise deal of $12.5 billion,
• in the acquisition, together with Blackstone, of Advarra, Inc., in a transaction that implies an enterprise value of $5 billion,
• in the recapitalization of Berlin Packaging L.L.C. together with Oak Hill Capital Partners,
• in the take-private, together with 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, Inc. with Kronos Incorporated, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $22 billion,
• its acquisition, together with Permira and GIC, of a majority stake in Lytx, Inc., in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $2.5 billion,
• its take-private, together with Hellman & Friedman, Blackstone and GIC, of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $11 billion, and
• its investment, with Insight Venture Partners, in Veeam Software.
• CPP Investments’ Sustainable Energies group in multiple matters, including,
• its $1 billion investment in AlphaGen, and
• together with Glencore and BCI, as shareholders, in Viterra Ltd.’s approximately $18 billion business combination with Bunge Ltd.
• CPPIB Credit in multiple matters, including its capital investment in David’s Bridal.
• EQT Partners in multiple matters, including its portfolio company WS Audiology (f/k/a Sivantos Pte. Ltd.) in its acquisitions of Clearwater Clinical Limited and TruHearing, Inc.
• Falconhead Capital, LLC and its portfolio company GPSi Holdings, LLC (a/k/a GPS Industries, LLC) in its sale to Ingersoll-Rand plc.
• Goldman Sachs in multiple matters, including,
• Omega Healthcare Management Services’ investment by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board,
• its $1 billion equity investment and subordinated debt financing in World Insurance Associates LLC in a transaction that valued World Insurance at $3.4 billion,
• its $300 million investment in Madhive,
• together with Eurazeo, in their sale of their remaining 51% stake in Trader Interactive, LLC to carsales.com Ltd. in a transaction that valued Trader at $1.9 billion
• its $325 million investment in iSpot.tv and,
• together with Eurazeo, in their sale of a 49% stake in Trader Interactive, LLC to carsales.com Ltd. in a transaction that valued Trader at $1.6 billion.
• Hayfin Capital Management LLP in the up to $300 million sale of Paradigm Spine, LLC.
• OMERS Private Equity in multiple matters, including,
• its portfolio company Epiq Systems, Inc. in the sale of Epiq’s Global Business Transformation Solutions (Epiq GBTS) division to K2 Services, LLC,
• its portfolio company Paradigm Outcomes in its investment from Neuberger Berman Capital Solution,
• its acquisition of Pueblo Mechanical & Controls,
• its minority investment in NovaSource Power Services,
• its acquisition of TurnPoint Services,
• its acquisition of its acquisition of Premise Health,
• its acquisition of Paradigm Outcomes, and
• its acquisition of Inmar, Inc.
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in multiple matters, including,
• its portfolio company BroadStreet Partners, Inc. in a $1.4 billion incremental senior secured term and revolving facility to finance its acquisition of Westland Insurance Group Ltd.
• its portfolio company APCO Holdings in its acquisition of National Auto Care,
• together with TA Associates, in the sale of a majority stake in Flexera Software LLC,
• its participation in multiple investments in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX),
• the recapitalization of BroadStreet Partners, Inc. 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, and
• its sale of a substantial minority stake in its portfolio company, Flexera Software LLC.
• PSP Investments in multiple matters, including,
• its acquisition, together with Onex, of Integrated Specialty Coverages LLC from KKR,
• together with Convex Insurance, in Convex’s new long term ownership structure led by Onex Corporation and American International Group, Inc.
• its acquisition, together with Invescorp, of PKF O'Connor Davies LLP,
• its acquisition, together with Investcorp, of CrossCountry Consulting,
• the merger of Loral Space & Communications and Telesat Canada to form a new publicly-traded Telesat Corporation,
• in its sale, together with Lightyear Capital, of Advisor Group Inc. (f/k/a AIG Advisor Group Inc.) to Reverence Capital Partners, and
• its minority investment in Alliant Insurance Services.
• The Kroger Company in its joint venture with Lindsay Goldberg to form PearlRock Partners.
• Susquehanna Growth Equity and its portfolio companies in multiple matters, including,
• iContracts, Inc. in its sale to RLDatix Ltd, and
• Reorg Research, Inc. in its sale to Warburg Pincus.
• SoftBank Group Corp. in its $3.3 billion acquisition of Fortress Investment Group LLC.
• Soros Fund Management in its acquisition via a plan of reorganization of Violin Memory, Inc.
• Warburg Pincus in multiple matters, including its $300 million investment partnership with Madison International Realty, LLC

Tim maintains an active pro bono practice and is a member of the Firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

Tim received his J.D. from Queen’s University and his B.Comm. from the University of Alberta.