Paul, Weiss Continues Growth With Senior Capital Markets Partner

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Timothy Cruickshank has joined the firm as a partner in the Capital Markets Group within the Corporate Department, resident in New York. Cruickshank focuses on a broad variety of capital markets and financing transactions.

“We are thrilled to welcome Tim, a talented lawyer with notable experience on sophisticated capital markets and financing transactions, to our firm,” said Paul, Weiss Chairman Brad S. Karp. “Tim’s multifaceted expertise bolsters our already incredibly strong transactional capabilities, allowing us to continue to provide our clients with the smart, holistic counsel they look to us for.”

“Tim is trusted by some of the world’s largest private equity firms and their portfolio companies, as well as public and private companies, on their most complex capital markets, financing and liability management matters,” said Gregory Ezring, partner and co-chair of the firm’s Global Capital Markets & Finance Group. “We are thrilled he will be joining our team.”

Cruickshank represents financial sponsors, their portfolio companies and other public and private companies in a variety of debt and equity capital markets and other financing transactions, including high-yield debt offerings, preferred equity financings, acquisition financings and initial public offerings, as well as complex out-of-court and in-court liability management matters and restructurings. He also advises U.S. and international clients on securities and corporate governance matters.

Cruickshank has advised on transactions for BC Partners and its portfolio companies PetSmart and Chewy; Centerbridge Partners; Lone Star Capital; Macy’s; Owens & Minor; Stone Point Capital and Warburg Pincus, among others.

“Paul, Weiss has an incredible platform and unparalleled client roster, and has continued to grow and thrive despite an overall slower market,” Cruickshank said. “I look forward to growing my practice at the firm and working alongside my talented colleagues on the most dynamic and innovative corporate transactions in the market.”

Cruickshank earned his Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales. He is admitted to practice in New York.

Paul, Weiss’ Global Capital Markets Group provides innovative and practical counsel on a wide variety of capital raising and securities law compliance matters for clients ranging from emerging private companies to established public companies. The Finance Group helps clients navigate the business and legal complexities of some of the most innovative and complex financing matters, including bespoke structured financings and whole-business securitizations of novel assets and restructurings of multibillion-dollar companies.