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Tim Burroughs is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Antitrust and Commercial Litigation groups. Tim’s practice focuses on assisting clients navigate a range of antitrust issues from investigations and litigation to compliance with pre-merger CFIUS and HSR notification requirements. Additionally, Tim has experience representing leading technology, pharmaceutical, and financial services companies in complex commercial disputes throughout the United States.

Tim is a member of the firm’s Antitrust Technology Task Force and a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Minding Your Business and Proskauer on Price Gouging blogs.

Tim also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing asylum seekers pursuing claims against the United States for harm suffered in connection with the Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy.

Tim earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the Executive Student Writing Editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Prior to his legal career, Tim was a Teach For America corps member and taught elementary school in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.

In April 2022, Proskauer, with co-counsel Public Counsel and Squire Patton Boggs, filed suit in Arizona federal court on behalf of a Guatemalan mother and daughter who were forcibly separated by border patrol agents in 2018.  Earlier this summer, the Court denied a motion to dismiss brought by the federal government.  The separation at issue in this case was among the thousands that occurred due to prior administration’s family separation policy. Five years later, many of the issues impacting these families are still unresolved, and, despite publicly denouncing the policy, the government continues to defend family separation in federal lawsuits filed across the nation.  

Proskauer, with co-counsel Public Counsel and Squire Patton Boggs, has filed a complaint in Arizona Federal Court on behalf of a mother and daughter from Guatemala who were forcibly separated after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump Administration’s family separation policy. The lawsuit comes after negotiations with the Biden