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Tim FitzSimons has advised clients on public and private M&A transactions totaling more than US$200 billion. As a member of King & Spalding’s Corporate Practice, he specializes in representing public and private companies on their most important merger and acquisition transactions as well as key corporate governance matters. Tim’s experience includes representing clients on a broad range of transactions, including tender offers, carve-outs, cross-border transactions, stock-for-stock mergers and deSPAC transactions. Tim also has significant experience representing special committees and independent directors in various conflict of interest transactions, including take privates. Tim’s corporate governance experience includes representing public companies on proxy contests and shareholder activism matters, working closely with management teams and board of directors.
Tim regularly speaks and writes on M&A and corporate governance topics and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Crain’s Chicago Business.
J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
B.A., University of Notre Dame
Illinois
New York
October 16, 2024
Tim FitzSimons, John Anderson and Zack Davis counsel Beyond, the owner of Bed Bath & Beyond, on its $40M investment in The Container Store Group
October 15, 2024
Beyond, Inc. Invests in The Container Store
September 24, 2024
Tim FitzSimons examines the likelihood of an uptick in M&A activity in response to the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut
Advised United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) in the $800 million sale of its UPS Ground Freight, Inc. to TFI International Inc. (NYSE and TSX: TFII)
Advised the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Genentech in its $46.8 billion merger with Roche Holdings
Advised CBOT Holdings in its $12 billion merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings (including the intervening unsolicited offer from InterContinental Exchange)
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October 18, 2023
Reconsider That Term Sheet: DOJ "Safe Harbor Policy" Announcement Incentivizes Merger-Related Disclosures
October 16, 2024
Tim FitzSimons, John Anderson and Zack Davis counsel Beyond, the owner of Bed Bath & Beyond, on its $40M investment in The Container Store Group
October 15, 2024
Beyond, Inc. Invests in The Container Store
September 24, 2024
Tim FitzSimons examines the likelihood of an uptick in M&A activity in response to the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut
Advised United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) in the $800 million sale of its UPS Ground Freight, Inc. to TFI International Inc. (NYSE and TSX: TFII)
Advised the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Genentech in its $46.8 billion merger with Roche Holdings
Advised CBOT Holdings in its $12 billion merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings (including the intervening unsolicited offer from InterContinental Exchange)
See more
October 18, 2023
Reconsider That Term Sheet: DOJ "Safe Harbor Policy" Announcement Incentivizes Merger-Related Disclosures
October 16, 2024
Tim FitzSimons, John Anderson and Zack Davis counsel Beyond, the owner of Bed Bath & Beyond, on its $40M investment in The Container Store Group
October 15, 2024
Beyond, Inc. Invests in The Container Store
September 24, 2024
Tim FitzSimons examines the likelihood of an uptick in M&A activity in response to the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut
J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
B.A., University of Notre Dame
Illinois
New York