Lindsey L. Wiersma is a partner in the 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.
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’s private investment fund formation clients have included:
- Apollo Global Management
- Brighton Park Capital
- CIM Group
- 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
- OceanSound Partners
- Precision Capital
- Sageview Capital
- Strategic Value Partners
- Trilantic Capital Partners
- Wellspring Capital Management
- XN LP
Lindsey also has experience with transactions involving sales, purchases and joint ventures of alternative investment managers.
Lindsey regularly attends and speaks at industry conferences and panels. In 2025, she chaired Practising Law Institute's 26th Annual Private Equity Forum, continuing her distinguished leadership role which she has maintained for the past 4 years. She has also participated in events hosted by American Investment Council and the Women's Private Equity Summit.
Lindsey previously served on the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Investment Management Regulation. Lindsey served as a notes editor for the Duke Law Journal.
