Professional Biography

Teri A. Lindquist Partner

Firmwide Co-Chair, Private Investment Funds

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    Chicago

    110 North Wacker Drive, 34th Floor

    Chicago, IL 60606

    +1.312.324.8547

    TLindquist@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

Partner Teri Lindquist is a senior leader in Perkins Coie’s Debt Finance practice. She focuses her work on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in leveraged mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Teri has extensive experience with all types of financings, including senior secured, unitranche, second lien, split lien, mezzanine, recurring revenue, and preferred stock structures. Teri represents sponsors focused on a wide range of industries, including technology, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, food and beverage, and media. Many of her deals involve international subsidiaries and assets and sometimes parallel foreign lenders. She also represents private equity funds in connection with net asset value (NAV) and subscription lines. In addition, having been through many cycles of boom and bust, Teri has often worked with sponsors and portfolio companies to navigate workouts and restructurings, Article 9 foreclosure sales, debtor in possession (DIP) facilities, and exit facilities.

Teri is also the co-chair of the firm’s Private Investment Funds industry group and represents fund sponsors and investors in forming and investing in venture funds, debt funds, funds of funds, and hedge funds. Teri represents sponsors of all sizes in the formation of investment funds. Working in collaboration with the firm’s Investment Management, Tax, and ERISA Litigation practices, she has assisted in raising funds that range from $20 million to $2 billion. In addition, Teri represents investors, from small family offices to Fortune 50 companies, with respect to fund investments.

Ranked by Chambers USA 11 Years in a Row

Corporate/M&A: Private Equity

Professional Recognition

  • One of the "500 Leading Dealmakers in America" by Lawdragon, 2021
  • Ranked by Chambers USA as "America's Leading Lawyer" for Corporate/M&A: Private Equity, 2013  2023
  • Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell

    (AV®, BV® and CV® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.)

*The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no certificate, award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.

Professional Leadership

  • American Bar Association
    • Opinion Letters Subcommittee
    • Commercial Financial Services Subcommittee 
    • Institutional Investors Committee
    • Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee
  • New York Bar Association

Related Employment

  • Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL
  • Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Chicago, IL

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