Mark Gordon is a partner in Wachtell Lipton’s Corporate Department, where he specializes in advising public companies and major leveraged buyout firms in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, take-over defense, distressed transactions and restructurings, shareholder activism and corporate governance, and securities law matters. His practice has included a broad and varied representation of public and private corporations and financial investment firms in a variety of industries.

Recent transactions include representations of Morgan Stanley in its receipt of a $9.0 billion investment from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; Merrill Lynch in its capital raising transactions; Ambac Financial Group in its recent $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; 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 billion acquisition by Cingular (the largest cash acquisition in history); 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 mergers and acquisitions, and he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he has taught each spring since 2001. His publications include "Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the U.S. - Just Warming Up?", "The Return of the Tender Offer", "Deconstructing American Business" (with Martin Lipton) 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 on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and corporate governance.

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, 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.