Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Teri Lindquist, a partner in the firm's Private Equity and Corporate practices, focuses her practice on all aspects of private equity, including fund formation, fund investment, representing private equity firms in complex financing transactions in connection with leveraged mergers and acquisitions, and representing portfolio companies in workouts, DIP facilities, exit financings and distressed debt purchases and sales.

Teri has worked on debt and equity financing transactions for various private and public companies, private equity groups and subordinated lenders. She recently completed a $650 million offering of limited partnership interests in a venture capital fund of funds and a $400 million offering of limited partnership interests in a co-investment fund. In addition, over the past two years, Teri has counseled major investors in twenty-two different venture capital, private equity and real estate funds. She has negotiated, structured and closed complex financing transactions in connection with leveraged mergers and acquisitions in the $20 million to $3 billion range, including the recent closing of a complex debt and equity restructuring. These transactions include senior, subordinated, mezzanine and second-lien facilities, both secured and unsecured, often involving substantial international components, multiple currencies and complex tax and perfection issues.

Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Teri was the chair of the Corporate Finance practice at Jenner &; Block, and, prior to that, she was a partner at Kirkland &; Ellis.

Areas of Practice

• Private Equity
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Venture Capital
• Corporate Finance
• Bankruptcy & Workouts
• Business

West Practice Categories

Taxation Law, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Venture Capital, Business Organizations, Bankruptcy Law, Workouts, Business & Commercial Law

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1986
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1986
• New York

Education

• Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1986
• The State University of New York, , 1981
  B.A.

Address

131 South Dearborn Street
Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60603-5559

Phones

(312) 324-8547

Faxes

(312) 324-9547

Emails

tlindquist@perkinscoie.com

Websites

http://www.perkinscoie.com