Biography

Mr. Welch provides practical advice regarding inbound and outbound investment and other cross-border transactions, as well as domestic financial regulatory issues. When necessary, he represents clients in dealings with regulatory and enforcement agencies—including the Justice, Treasury, State, Commerce, and Defense Departments, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state agencies—and in internal investigations around the world, including in China, India, and the Middle East.
Mr. Welch provides operational and transactional guidance to large financial institutions and other Fortune 500 clients, as well as small and medium-sized businesses, involving dealings in virtually every major industry and country. He routinely advises clients regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-bribery laws; sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, export controls, anti-boycott, and other international trade and investment matters; the Patriot Act and anti-money laundering laws; and various federal and state financial regulatory regimes.
Mr. Welch has worked on hundreds of mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions in recent years, representing strategic buyers and sellers, as well as private equity companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other investors. He represents both lenders and borrowers on debt financings, underwriters and issuers on equity offerings, and investors and managers in the fund formation context.
Mr. Welch received a J.D. in 2010 from the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to law school, he received a B.A. from the University of Buffalo in 2007, magna cum laude, with majors in Economics, Political Science, and Psychology, and a minor in Philosophy. Mr. Welch previously worked at the Supreme Court of the United States and in the Chicago office of another international law firm.
Mr. Welch has performed pro bono work for Save the Children, Oxfam, nonprofit micro-lenders, the International Senior Lawyers Project, the Children’s Law Center, the Innocence Project, Election Protection, and Libraries Without Borders.
Firm News & Announcements, Latest Thinking
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises AK Steel Holding Corporation in its $3B Sale to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. Firm Announcement — December 03, 2019
- Weil Advised TPG Global in the Acquisition by TPG Pace Holdings Corp. of Accel Entertainment Deal Brief — November 20, 2019
- Weil Advises Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor on its $298M Investment in Maxeon Solar Technologies in Connection with Sponsored Spin-Off from SunPower Deal Brief — November 11, 2019
- Weil Advises Gores Holdings III in its Business Combination with PAE Deal Brief — November 06, 2019
- Weil Advises Oak Hill Portfolio Company EPIC in its Acquisition of Prime Risk Partners Deal Brief — October 18, 2019
Latest Thinking
- CFIUS Issues Long-Awaited FIRRMA Implementing Regulations Alert — International Trade Currents — By Ted Posner, Timothy C. Welch, Nathan Cunningham, Greg Chafuen and Glenda Bleiberg — PDF — September 25, 2019
- United States Imposes New Sanctions on Venezuelas State Owned Oil Company Alert — International Trade Currents — By Ted Posner, Timothy C. Welch and Glenda Bleiberg — January 31, 2019
- Iranian Sanctions Re-imposed as Wind-down Period Ends Alert — International Trade Currents — By Ted Posner and Timothy C. Welch — November 06, 2018
- Overhaul of Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) National Security Reviews of Foreign Acquisitions of U.S. Businesses Alert — International Trade Currents — By Ted Posner and Timothy C. Welch — PDF — August 24, 2018
- Re-Imposition of Nuclear-Related Sanctions Targeting Iran Alert — International Trade Currents — By Ted Posner and Timothy C. Welch — May 09, 2018