Lindsey Gonzalez is a transactional lawyer whose practice encompasses a broad range of corporate and business matters, including business entity selection and formation, contract negotiation and drafting, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, mergers, transaction financing, governance and compliance matters, and the acquisition, development, sale, financing and leasing of real estate. She also counsels nonprofit organizations on a myriad of issues, including organizational formation, board governance, 501(c)3 tax compliance, program development, and fundraising.
As a member of the firm’s Healthcare Group, Lindsey assists hospitals and hospital groups, physician practices, and other healthcare providers with both transactional and regulatory matters. Her experience includes forming corporations, limited liability companies and other entities for hospitals, physician practices and other health care organizations; drafting amendments to governing documents and advising on other corporate compliance matters; representing clients in reorganization and recapitalization transactions; and providing support in all facets of a transaction, including due diligence, drafting and negotiation, regulatory analysis and approvals, and post-closing transition matters. On the regulatory side, she advises clients on federal and state health care laws, including Stark and anti-kickback, Medicare and Medicaid, and licensure and accreditation.
Lindsey’s achievements have earned her inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America (banking and finance law; corporate law; mergers and acquisitions law; real estate law) and in Oklahoma Super Lawyers’ list of “Oklahoma Rising Stars,” which recognizes the state’s up-and-coming attorneys.
Lindsey graduated with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2023, where she served as articles editor of the Oklahoma Law Review and as assistant judging director of the Board of Advocates, served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Jodi W. Dishman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, and was a member of numerous organizations, including Phi Delta Phi honor society, Organization for the Advancement of Women in the Law, Business Law Society, and Sports and Entertainment Law Society. The Comfort Scholar earned seven American Jurisprudence Awards for academic excellence and was named to the Order of the Coif.
Following her graduation from Columbia University in 2017, Lindsey worked as an account executive for two professional sports teams, the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA and the New England Black Wolves of the National Lacrosse League, for two years before returning to Oklahoma and entering law school. She now leverages that experience and firsthand understanding of the industry as a member of the firm’s Sports Industry Group.