Mark Gordon is a partner in Wachtell Lipton’s Corporate department, where he focuses on advising public companies and major leveraged buyout firms in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, take-over defense, shareholder activism, and corporate governance, capital raising transactions and securities law matters.

His representations include Talecris Biotherapeutics in its pending $3.4 billion merger with Grifols S.A. of Spain; NCI Building Systems, Inc. in its restructuring and rescue investment transaction with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; Morgan Stanley in its receipt of a $9.0 billion investment from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; Ambac Financial Group in its $1.5 billion capital raise; Suncom Wireless in its $2.4 billion acquisition by T-Mobile; Genesis Healthcare in its contested sale to a private buying group; ElkCorp in its contested topping bid sale to BMCA; SafeNet in its sale to Vector Capital; Thomas H. Lee Partners, Warburg Pincus, JP Morgan Partners and Goldman Sachs in their $7.7 billion acquisition of ARAMARK; The Blackstone Group in its acquisition of UICI; NeighborCare, Inc. in its hostile-turned-friendly acquisition by Omnicare, Inc.; Intelsat Ltd. in its acquisition of PanAmSat; AT&T Wireless in its $40 billion acquisition by Cingular; and Lazard, which had been privately held for 157 years, in its separation from its former principal owners, IPO and related restructuring transactions.

Mr. Gordon is also a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches a Mergers & Acquisitions course each January, and he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he has taught a similar course annually since 2002. His publications include "Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Introduction" (forthcoming) and "Takeover Defenses Work. Is that Such a Bad Thing?" 55 Stanford Law Review 819 (2002). He is a frequent speaker at bar and professional conferences.

Mr. Gordon joined Wachtell Lipton in 1994 and was elected partner in 2001. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, Yale University, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and was a member of the best team in the Ames Moot Court Competition.

Mr. Gordon serves on the board of directors of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation.