Gavin Gordon is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group. He focuses his practice on leveraged buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and infrastructure transactions. Gavin has advised private equity funds and corporate clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.
Gavin has advised many European and U.S. sponsors, including: ABRY, Alinda, Apax, Apollo, Arcapita, Arle (formerly Candover), Blackstone, CCMP, Centerbridge, Cerberus, Cinven, Cognetas, FTV Capital, GS Capital Partners, GTCR, Health Evolution Partners, KKR, LGV Ventures, New Mountain Capital, Pamplona, Park Square, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Searchlight Capital Partners, Summit Partners, TH Lee, TPG, Triton and Vista Equity Partners.
Gavin is rated among the leading private equity practitioners by Chambers UK (2022), The Legal 500 UK (2022), IFLR1000 (2022), Best Lawyers (2022) and Super Lawyers. Chambers has described him as "excellent" and “very commercial” highlighting that “he is praised by sources for his depth of knowledge in the private equity space” and “commercial, responsive and extremely knowledgeable”.