Biography

Tim provides operational and transactional guidance to Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized businesses, involving activities in virtually every major industry and country. He routinely advises clients regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws; sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, export controls administered by the Bureau of Industry and Security and Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, import/customs, anti-boycott, and other international trade and investment matters; the Patriot Act, Bank Secrecy Act, and other anti-money laundering laws; and various federal and state consumer and financial regulatory regimes. Tim has been part of both the Corporate and Litigation Departments during his tenure with the Firm, and he regularly advises clients on internal investigations around the world—including in China, Russia, India, and the Middle East—and in a wide range interactions with regulatory and enforcement agencies, including the Justice, Treasury, State, Commerce, and Defense Departments, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state agencies.
Tim provides practical advice regarding inbound and outbound investment and other cross-border transactions, as well as domestic financial regulatory issues. He has worked on over a thousand mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions in recent years, advising governments, financial institutions, and 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.
Tim received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and his B.A., with majors in Economics, Political Science and Psychology, and a minor in Philosophy, from the University of Buffalo. Tim previously worked at the Supreme Court of the United States and in the Chicago office of another international law firm.
Tim has performed pro bono work for the International Senior Lawyers Project, Oxfam, Plan International, nonprofit micro lenders, Legal Response International, the Innocence Project, Election Protection, Save the Children, the Children’s Law Center, Global Citizen, the Public International Law & Policy Group, and Libraries Without Borders. He and his wife are resource/foster parents in Arlington County, Virginia.
Firm News & Announcements, Latest Thinking
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises Dealer-Managers in Microsoft's $3.65B Exchange Offer Deal Brief — November 16, 2023
- Weil Advising American Securities in $1.9B Sale of Paragon Medical to AMETEK, Inc. Deal Brief — October 31, 2023
- Weil Advises GHK Capital Partners LP in its Acquisition of JohnsByrne Company Deal Brief — October 10, 2023
- Weil Advises Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Through its Private Equity and Hybrid Capital Teams, on New Investment in World Insurance Associates Deal Brief — August 23, 2023
- Weil Advises the Initial Purchasers and the Lead Arrangers in Rain Carbon’s Offering of Senior Secured Notes and Term Loan Refinancing Deal Brief — August 17, 2023
Latest Thinking
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Application of FinCEN’s Final Rule Regarding the Corporate Transparency Act’s Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements to Investment Advisers and Private Funds
Blog Post — Global Private Equity Watch
— By
Andrew I. Chizzik,
Timothy C. Welch and
David E. Wohl
— August 21, 2023
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (“FinCEN”)[1] final rule implementing the beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) will become effective on January 1, 2024 (“Effective Date”).[2] The final rule requires certain U.S. domestic and foreign companies (“Reporting Companies”) to report BOI to FinCEN with respect to (i) any natural persons […]
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... - President Biden Creates a National Security Program that will Impact Outbound US Investments Involving Countries of Concern Alert — By Shawn B. Cooley, Timothy C. Welch, Nathan Cunningham, Christina Carone and William Looney — PDF — August 16, 2023
- U.S. Implements New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items Restricting Chinese Access and Updates BIS’s Unverified List Alert — Foreign Investment & Trade — By Shawn B. Cooley, Timothy C. Welch and Nathan Cunningham — PDF — November 08, 2022
- From the Bully Pulpit: President Biden Orders CFIUS to Strengthen Its Reviews in Light of Evolving National Security Risks Alert — Foreign Investment & Trade — By Shawn B. Cooley, Nathan Cunningham, Timothy C. Welch, Christina Carone and William Looney — PDF — October 03, 2022