Gordon R. Caplan Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8266 F 212-728-9266

Gordon R. Caplan is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital Practice of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.  Mr. Caplan specializes in technology and telecommunications related corporate matters, venture capital and mergers and acquisitions.   He has extensive experience representing public and private companies on a spectrum of corporate matters, including private equity financing, securities offerings, exchange offers, privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, banking, commercial contracts, licensing, and employment issues.  Mr. Caplan has also been responsible for the structuring, drafting and negotiation of significant technology licensing, procurement and outsourcing transactions for a number of major telecommunications and technology companies over the last several years.

Chambers Global (2008) and Chambers USA (2007) ranks Mr. Caplan among the leading individuals practicing in the area of technology and IT outsourcing in the United States.

Mr. Caplan has published on the subject of high-technology transactions and has lectured on venture capital transactions at Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Caplan was a partner of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, and of O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell. He also previously worked in the New York and London offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.