Biography
Lindsey L. Wiersma is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. 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. Lindsey also has experience with transactions involving sales, purchases and joint ventures of alternative investment managers.
Lindsey regularly represents some of the top fund managers, including Acrew Capital, Apollo Global Management, Clearlake Capital Partners, Davidson Kempner, Oak Hill Capital Management, OceanSound Partners, Precision Capital, Sageview Capital, Stronghold Resource Partners, Trilantic Capital Partners, Varagon Capital Partners and Wellspring Capital, among others.
Lindsey serves on the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Investment Management Regulation.