Lindsey L. Wiersma > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices

1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10019-6064
NEW YORK
United States
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Lindsey L. Wiersma

Work Department
Corporate, Investment Management
Position
Education
J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2005
B.A., Wheaton College, 2001 magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP‘s stellar client roster includes several of the most prominent asset managers and middle market firms, who regularly turn to the firm for support on launching and forming flagship funds and private equity style products, fund raises, novel structures for impact and ESG focused funds as well as continuation funds and secondaries transactions. Leading the New York based team is Marco Masotti, who’s broad funds practice spans various asset classes, including private equity, credit, growth capital and real estate, among others, where his focus lies in large scale fund raises. Further notable names in New York include Victoria Forrester, who advises on business alternative asset management and related regulatory issues and secondaries transactions, Amran Hussein, who focuses on sponsor side representation relating to private investment funds, co-investments and secondaries transactions, and Maury Slevin and Robert Tananbaum who were both made partner in January 2023. Conrad van Loggerenberg, Matthew Goldstein and Lindsey Wiersma are further key names in the funds group, who work with some of the firm’s most preeminent funds clients, including Apollo Global Management, The Blackstone Group, KKR and Crestview Partners. The team grew in 2023 with the addition of Brad Brown from 3G Capital in September.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism