| Mark Gordon is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz's Corporate Department, where he focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, takeover defense, private equity and leveraged buy-outs, securities law matters, and distressed/insolvent company acquisitions. His practice has included a broad and varied representation of public and private corporations and financial investment firms in a variety of industries. He also has extensive experience in corporate governance issues.
Mr. Gordon also is an adjunct professor of law at New York University Law School, where he teaches a course on mergers and acquisitions each spring, and, in recent years, has become a frequent speaker at bar and professional conferences on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and corporate governance. His publications include "Takeover Defenses Work. Is that Such a Bad Thing?" 55 Stan. L. Rev. 819 (2002), "Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the U.S. - Just Warming Up?", "The Return of the Tender Offer" and "Deconstructing American Business" (with Martin Lipton). Mr. Gordon is an organizer and speaker of the Stanford-New York University Business/Academic Conference on Auction Theory and M&A. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State and American Bar Association.
Mr. Gordon joined Wachtell Lipton in 1994 and was elected partner in 2001. He is a magna cum laude graduate of both Yale College and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard Law School, he was executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and was a member of the winning team in the Ames Moot Court Competition. |
