Tim is the firm's Global Partner for Client Sustainability and a global transactions partner based in New York.
Tim advises on a wide range of strategic sustainability issues for clients as well as a series of high-profile cross-border M&A, private equity and joint ventures.
Tim leads Freshfields' global sustainability team, comprised of leaders from the firm's transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution practices, who advise clients on sustainability matters. His role includes guiding the firm in its partnerships with clients, public policy makers and regulators in their joint effort to tackle the broader range of sustainability issues impacting business and society. Tim is also a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School. He speaks widely on sustainability issues at global conferences and at other academic and professional institutions. He currently is the Co-Chair of the ESG Legal Leaders Forum.
Tim is also active in board service. He is the Chair of the Board of New York Public Radio and serves on the Board of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. He previously served as Chair of the Governance Committee on the Board of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, appointed by the Mayor of New York City and on the Board of the New York Public Theater, as Co-Chair of the Governance Committee. Tim formerly served as the Chair of the Opportunity Agenda and Vice-Chair of the Legal Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, where he worked as an investment banker and lawyer for 11 years.
- Advising the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) on financial institutions acting in concert on sustainability issues
- Advising the Generation Foundation, the PRI and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) on the legal framework for institutional investors to invest for sustainability impact
- Advising a global sovereign wealth fund on climate change litigation
- Advising Hewlett-Packard Company on multiple engagements, including its global business separation, creating two separate publicly traded companies with revenues in excess of $50bn – the largest technology enterprise split in history.
- Advising Zhongwang USA on its $2.33bn acquisition of Aleris Corporation from a consortium of shareholders.
- Advising Zhejiang Geely on its purchase of Volvo Car Corporation for $1.8bn.
- Advising on the sale of Solvay Pharmaceuticals to Abbott Laboratories for $7bn.
- Advising Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) on establishing as a foundation in Switzerland.


