Gordon Moodie

Gordon Moodie is a partner in the Corporate Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities law matters. Mr. Moodie has represented public and private companies in a variety of industries and transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, initial public offerings, securities law matters and corporate governance.

Mr. Moodie received a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University, graduating first in his class, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude and winning the Victor Brudney Prize.

Mr. Moodie is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

• Pfizer in the $48 billion combination of Upjohn with Mylan
• Michael Dell in the $67 billion combination of Dell and EMC and the $24.5 billion acquisition of Dell
• Lions Gate Entertainment in its merger with Starz, its acquisition of Summit Entertainment and in its successful proxy contest against Carl Icahn
• The Board of Directors of  Genesee & Wyoming in its $8.4 billion sale to affiliates of Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC
• Presidio in its $2.1 billion sale to BC Partners, initial public offering and strategic acquisitions
• XO Group in its $933 million merger with Wedding Wire
• Newmont Mining in its $10 billion acquisition of Goldcorp
• Newfield Exploration Company in its $5.5 billion sale to Encana Corporation
• Square in its initial public offering
• Leap Wireless in its $1.2 billion acquisition by AT&T
• CST Brands in the $4.4 billion merger with Alimentation Couche-Tard
• Tim Hortons in its $12 billion combination with Burger King
• Saks Incorporated in its $2.9 billion acquisition by Hudson’s Bay Company
• FMC Corporation in the acquisition of a significant portion of DuPont’s crop protection business and simultaneous sale to DuPont of FMC’s Health and Nutrition business; the $1.8 billion acquisition of Cheminova; and the $1.6 billion sale of its Alkali chemical business to Tronox
• Texas Industries in its $2.7 billion combination with Martin Marietta
• Cabot Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Norit N.V.
• Rohm and Haas in its $18 billion sale to Dow Chemical
• Airgas in successfully defending against a $5.8 billion hostile takeover bid by Air Products and Chemicals
• Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate Plc
• Smurfit-Stone Container in its $3.5 billion merger with RockTenn Company
• Duke Energy in its $32 billion merger with Progress Energy

• Queen's University B.Comm. 1999, first in class
• Harvard Law School, J.D. 2004, magna cum laude