US-headquartered law firm, Sidley Austin, has announced the hire of Daniel Lindsey as a partner within its Global Finance group, to focus on financial sponsor mandates alongside the Private Equity (PE) team.
Lindsey relocated from Hong Kong to Singapore for the role, which began on July 8.
“The private capital market in the Asia Pacific region continues to experience incredible growth and we have seen a number of funds increase their Asia presence,” Charlie Wilson, head of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity group in APAC, and co-managing partner of the Singapore office, told FinanceAsia.
“We believe our experience helping our PE clients across a number of strategies, including growth equity, buyouts, infrastructure, real estate and private credit, puts us in a great position to support the sponsors who are active in the region,” he added.
Lindsey was most recently a partner within the PE practice at Goodwin Procter in Hong Kong, which he joined in 2018, and earlier at Kirkland & Ellis, also in Hong Kong.
Notable deals on which he has advised include FountainVest Partners’ leveraged buyouts of Chinese logistics company, CJ Rokin Logistics & Supply Chain, and China F&B Group, operator of Dairy Queen and Papa John’s in China, in 2021. He also advised on LionRock Capital’s debt restructuring in connection with its majority purchase of shoe retailer, Clarks, in 2020.
He was selected as a “rising star partner” for leveraged finance in the 2020/2021 IFLR1000 ranking of financial and corporate law firms and lawyers.
Lindsey’s addition will add to his new firm’s leveraged finance capabilities in Singapore and APAC as it continues to expand its PE client base, added Wilson, in the press release.
In December, FA reported on Sidley Austin’s appointment of Steven Hsu as partner within its Corporate and Finance group in China.
