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Gregory M. GordonJones Day - Professionals - Gregory M. Gordon
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Gregory M. Gordon (Greg)Partner
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Greg Gordon oversees the Dallas Office business restructuring and reorganization practice.He has more than 25 years of experience in complex business restructurings, in and out of court, distress acquisitions and dispositions, and commercial litigation.
Greg has led or played other key roles in Jones Day's representation of companies in a number of large chapter 11 cases and business restructurings, including Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, The Loewen Group, Pillowtex Corporation, Doskocil Manufacturing, Baldwin Builders and Baldwin Building Contractors, Fairfield Communities, Allied Stores Corporation and Federated Department Stores, Kendavis Holding Company, and Oxford Development Corporation.He also has represented other key parties in chapter 11 cases, including in the chapter 11 cases of Mirant Corporation, One Travel Holdings, L.D. Brinkman Holdings, Tri-Union Development Corporation, Physicians Resource Group, Jitney-Jungle Stores of America, El Paso Refinery, National Gypsum Company, Michigan General Corporation and Diamond Lumber, Pizza Inn, Exec Express II, Foster Mortgage Corporation, Priest North Limited Partnership, Interfirst Texas Finance, and American Healthcare.Greg has substantial experience in bankruptcy-related litigation, including appellate matters, and most recently he has been representing Southern Company in its defense of a $2 billion avoidance action brought by a litigation trust established under the Mirant Corporation confirmed plan of reorganization.Other recent cases include precedent-setting litigation against the PBGC regarding termination of multiple pension plans, successful defense against efforts by a bankruptcy trustee to impose environmental liability on lenders who foreclosed on assets formerly owned by the estate, and the successful defense of an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against Allied Riser Communications Corporation.Greg has been involved in numerous sales, via auction or otherwise, of single and multiple assets and businesses of chapter 11 debtors, both on behalf of the debtor/seller and the third-party acquiror.
Greg is listed in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyer for Business.He is referred to as "outstanding" and received accolades for "management of complex issues," "ability to build consensus," and "knowledge of the intricacies of the bankruptcy process."He is also recognized as a "Texas Super Lawyer."
Greg has lectured on a variety of topics, including, mass tort cases, director and officer liability, securitization transactions, lender liability, and issues related to dot-com bankruptcies.He spoke in November 2006 at The University of Texas School of Law's Annual Bankruptcy Conference on commercial arbitration issues, in January 2007 at a meeting of the Houston Turnaround Management Association on bankruptcy as a solution for asbestos and other mass tort liability, and in a May 2007 audio conference hosted by Beard Law Group and Business Publishers on handling complex chapter 11 issues.
He also writes on numerous subjects, and, most recently, coauthored with Charlie Oellermann and Brian Gifford "Present Value Discounting of Claims in Bankruptcy," which will be published soon in the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice.He also coauthored with Debra Simpson "Retaining Key Employees in Bankruptcy," which appeared in the October 16, 2006 issue of the Texas Lawyer and the January/February 2007 issue of Executive Legal Adviser under the title "Code Limits Incentives for Top Talent."Finally, he coauthored with Dave Heiman "Innovative Approaches to Complex Restructurings: Creating a New Chapter for Kaiser Aluminum and USG," which appeared in the September 2006 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, and "When the Dust Settles," which appeared in the October 16, 2006 issue of The Deal.
Greg regularly records podcasts on recent bankruptcy developments for the Texas Lawyer.These podcasts are available on the Texas Lawyer Web site.
Greg is a member of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Chapter 11 and Executory Contracts Subcommittees), the State Bar of Texas, and the Dallas Bar Association.
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