Lindsay is Counsel in the Litigation Department at Wiggin and Dana.
Lindsay has a broad litigation practice that focuses on general commercial, antitrust and securities litigation, as well as regulatory enforcement, internal investigation and bankruptcy matters. She has extensive experience handling client needs from pre-litigation advice, investigation and antitrust counseling through trial, appeal and settlement.
Before joining Wiggin and Dana, Lindsay practiced at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where she focused on complex litigation in the areas of antitrust, securities, contracts, torts and other commercial disputes. Lindsay also represented large domestic and multinational companies in confidential internal investigations as well as regulatory investigations brought by the SEC, DOJ, FTC, Federal Reserve and FDIC.
Lindsay received her J.D. from Columbia School of Law, where she served as Editor for the Journal of Law and the Arts and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her B.A. in English Literature & Comparative Studies from the University of Virginia, where she graduated with High Distinction and was selected for admission to Phi Beta Kappa.
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- Columbia University School of Law (J.D.)
- University of Virginia (B.A.)
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Lindsay has achieved favorable results for her clients in a number of high stakes matters. Some of her notable experience includes:
- Represented Silvergate Capital Corporation in litigating and ultimately resolving hundreds of millions of dollars of claims arising from the 2022 crypto currency crisis and the collapse of FTX, including reaching settlements with the SEC, Federal Reserve and California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Claims resolved in a global settlement reached in Silvergate’s Chapter 11 proceedings in the District of Delaware include over three hundred million dollars of alleged indemnification obligations by Silvergate’s former directors, officers and employees, a securities fraud class action brough by Silvergate’s stockholders, an aiding and abetting class action brought by FTX’s customers and a $90 million breach of contract and fraud claim by a former business partner of Silvergate that was disallowed in its entirety following a bench trial. The resolution of these claims facilitated Silvergate’s voluntary liquidation.*
- Represented Louis Dreyfus and Imperial Sugar Company in a successful antitrust trial victory against the Department of Justice, which sought to enjoin U.S. Sugar’s proposed $315 million acquisition of Imperial Sugar from Louis Dreyfus. Taking the case from complaint to bench trial in less than five months, the trial team secured a ruling from the trial court in the District of Delaware that the transaction would significantly benefit, not harm, the U.S. sugar market, rejecting the DOJ’s market definition and antitrust injury arguments. The acquisition closed in November 2022 and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the ruling in 2023.*
- Represented numerous public companies in confidential internal and/or agency investigations by the SEC and DOJ regarding alleged fraud and financial reporting, disclosure and rule violations. In each instance, the agency closed its investigation without recommending any enforcement action.*
- Represented a Connecticut-based cargo airline in prosecuting a fraudulent kickback scheme by former executives, resulting in criminal indictments—arising from the airline’s referral of the criminal matter to the U.S. Attorneys’ Office for the Southern District of New York—of 12 former executives. Secured dismissal of a civil RICO litigation brought by a member of the kickback scheme.*
- Co-author of Global Investigations Review’s “Guide to International Enforcement of the Securities Laws.”
*Matters were completed while working at a prior firm.