A partner in the Litigation Department, Andrew G. Gordon has extensive experience litigating on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in complex civil litigation matters. Mr. Gordon's litigation practice is concentrated on securities, intellectual property and other commercial disputes. He has also handled significant antitrust, bankruptcy and tax matters for several clients.

An experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Gordon has conducted or participated in numerous trials in federal and state courts, bankruptcy courts and arbitration matters.

Some of his recent work includes:

• achieving significant victories on behalf of Bloomingdale Properties and Zurich Alternative Asset Management and Citigroup in arbitrations over the valuation of the commercial properties located at 1385 Broadway and 111 Wall Street
  
  
• representing several financial, hedge fund and private equity clients in a variety of regulatory, criminal proceedings and civil litigation-related matters, including, most recently, successfully defending a major private equity fund client in an arbitration in which plaintiff alleged claims of fraud and breach of contract and sought over $100 million in damages
  
  
• litigation of significant trademark and licensing cases for clients such as Payless ShoeSource, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Versace and Ann Taylor. Mr. Gordon, for example, has achieved victories on behalf of Polo Ralph Lauren in a three-week jury trial and an international arbitration in Sweden related to Polo Ralph Lauren's decade-long trademark dispute with the United States Polo Association
  
  
• representing Warner Music Group with respect to various matters, including disputes concerning employment-related issues, copyright, antitrust, licensing and other contractual disputes
  
  
• defending several major clients – including the underwriters of Philips Services, Merck, Rhodia S.A., The Interpublic Group of Companies and Sealed Air Corporation – in securities class actions brought around the country
  
  
• litigation of various bankruptcy matters, including representing the Official Creditors Committee of Armstrong World Industries, Inc. and MacAndrews & Forbes in connection with the bankruptcy of Federal-Mogul.
  

Mr. Gordon is also part of a trial team that successfully represented, pro bono, thousands of individuals with serious mental illnesses in a landmark lawsuit brought against the Governor of the State of New York and other New York officials. The Court recently determined that the State's practice of placing and maintaining individuals with serious mental illnesses in substandard adult homes rather than in integrated, community-based residential programs where appropriate rehabilitation and support services could be provided to those who wish to live outside an institution violated the American with Disabilities Act.

Mr. Gordon is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. He served as associate editor of the Fordham Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.