Overview
Lindsay R. Sparks is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings. Ms. Sparks’ practice encompasses a wide range of finance transactions, including acquisition and other leveraged financings, investment grade financings, asset-based financings and structured credit financings and other debt capital market transactions.
Ms. Sparks has particular experience in secured lending matters, including first and second lien syndicated credit facilities, asset-based revolvers and unitranche credit facilities. Her structured credit practice includes NAV facilities, capital call facilities and single-asset and portfolio back-leverage transactions secured by debt, equity and other asset classes.
Ms. Sparks also has significant transactional experience in a variety of industries, including technology and software, asset management, and energy. She also has extensive experience in healthcare, datacenters, retail, manufacturing, agriculture, ski resorts and transportation and distribution industries and cross-border transactions.
Recognitions
- Chambers USA, Leading attorney for Banking & Finance in California (2024)
- “She is a pleasure to work with and very commercial.”
- Super Lawyer, California Rising Stars (2015)
- California Daily Journal, Top 20 Under 40 (2015)
Education
- University of California Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 2001
- University of California Berkeley, B.A., 1997
Representations
- H.I.G. Growth Partners in connection with the financing for its sale of CarltonOne to Goldman Sachs Investment Management
- Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Oaktree Wealth Solutions in connection with the financing of the Brookfield Infrastructure Income Fund
- Kayne Anderson BDC Inc. and its financing subsidiaries in connection with its credit facilities
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of its $1.4 billion take-private of Avid Technology
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Wrike from Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Investment Management
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of its $1.5 billion acquisition of Momentive Global
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of its acquisition of the FireEye Products business for $1.2 billion
- SAI360, a portfolio company of Symphony Technology Group, in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Evotix
- Vector Capital in connection with the financing of the acquisition of Riverbed Technology
- Vector Capital in connection with the financing for the sale of MarkLogic to Progress
- Vector Capital in connection with the financing of the acquisition of Aspect Software
- Vector Capital in connection with the financing of the acquisition of Cheetah Digital, a cross-channel marketing solutions provider
- Vector Capital in connection with the financing of Host Analytics
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of its acquisition of eProductivity Software, the Productivity Software Business of Electronics for Imaging
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of Winshuttle, an automated solutions provider
- Symphony Technology Partners in connection with the financing of AFS Technologies
- Francisco Partners in connection with the financing for the sale of Quest Software to Clearlake Capital
- GI Partners in connection with the financing of Flexential, a national IT infrastructure and cloud provider
- GI Partners in connection with the financing of the acquisition of Keller Bergensons Services, a leading provider of integrated facilities management services
- GI Partners in connection with the financing of the Logibec, a Canadian healthcare IT company
- NetSmart, a provider of health services and management process solutions and electronic records, in connection with its revolving and term loan facilities
- Kayne Anderson’s closed end funds in connection with their revolving and term loan credit facilities over $1 billion of privately placed senior notes
- Tortoise Capital’s closed end funds in connection with their credit facilities and private notes issuances
- Dole Food Company in connection with its senior secured credit facility and 144A bond offering
- Quotient Technology in connection with the financing for its business combination with Neptune Retail Solutions
- Woodward Inc. in connection with its $1 billion revolving credit facility and private note offerings
- Jacobs Engineering Group in connection with its revolving credit facility and note purchase agreements
- Masimo Corporation, a manufacturer of noninvasive patient monitoring technologies, in connection with its $225 senior credit facility
- NGL Energy Partners LP in connection with its revolving credit facility
- Lotus Midstream in connection with the financing of Centurion Pipeline LP
Involvement
- Serves as a board member of Women in Law Empowerment Forum, Houston Chapter