ProfessionalsLindsey L. Wiersma
Tel: +1-212-373-3777
Fax: +1-212-492-0777
lwiersma@paulweiss.com
lwiersma@paulweiss.com
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York,
NY
10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0777
Lindsey L. Wiersma is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm's Investment Funds Group. Lindsey focuses her practice on the organization and operation of a variety of private investment funds, including buyout funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds, distressed funds, credit funds, structured product funds, co-investment funds and funds of funds. In addition to advising on a wide range of fund formation issues, she also advises fund managers on regulatory issues, management company “upper tier” arrangements, investment management M&A transactions, seeding arrangements and secondary transactions.
EXPERIENCE
Lindsey’s private investment fund formation clients have included:
- Apollo Global Management
- Brighton Park Capital
- CIM Group
- Clearlake Capital Partners
- Davidson Kempner
- Foresite Capital
- Grain Management
- Hutchin Hill Capital
- KKR
- KPS Capital Partners
- LNK Partners
- Mercer Advisors
- NMS Capital
- NovaWulf Digital Management
- Oak Hill Capital
- Oaktree Capital Management
- OceanSound Partners
- Paloma Partners
- Precision Capital
- Sageview Capital
- Sagewind Capital
- Strategic Value Partners
- TowerBrook Capital Partners
- Trilantic Capital Partners
- Varagon Capital Partners
- Wellspring Capital Management
- XN LP
Lindsey also has experience with transactions involving sales, purchases and joint ventures of alternative investment managers. Her past representations include:
- Oak Hill Capital in a strategic minority investment by Stonyrock, an affiliate of Jefferies
- Oak Hill Capital in Wafra’s acquisition of a strategic minority interest from Stonyrock, an affiliate of Jefferies
- KPS Capital Partners in its sale of a minority interest to Dyal Capital Partners
- Moelis & Company / Gracie Credit Opportunities
Lindsey regularly attends and speaks at industry conferences and panels. In 2024, she co-chaired Practising Law Institute’s 25th Annual Private Equity Forum, and she has also participated in events hosted by American Investment Council and the Women’s Private Equity Summit. The Legal 500 deemed Lindsey a “Recommended Lawyer” in both private equity and alternative/hedge funds, and Chambers USA recognizes Lindsey as an industry leader in private equity fund formation, with clients highlighting that she has “a fantastic balance of experience and market awareness.”
Lindsey serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Investment Management Regulation. Lindsey served as a notes editor for the Duke Law Journal.