Patrick Gadson > Vinson & Elkins LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Patrick Gadson
Work Department
Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity
Position
Partner
Career
Patrick’s principal areas of practice are private equity, mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism. Patrick is the New York Chair of V&E’s Shareholder Activism Practice, which advises public companies in competitive proxy solicitations, strategic investor relations, and corporate governance. He also counsels senior management, boards of directors, investment managers and both private equity and strategic investors in a wide variety of complex business transactions, corporate governance matters, strategic investor relations and other special situations. His experience includes advising clients in connection with shareholder activism related investments, hostile takeovers, public and private M&A transactions, strategic minority investments and corporate capital investments.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
(Next Generation Partners: Advice to boards)The broad shareholder activism practice at Vinson & Elkins LLP covers defense matters for clients across all industries and market capitalizations. Its capabilities encompass the full range of work in the area, including proxy contests, “just vote no” campaigns, hostile takeover attempts, merger contests, short attacks, and other activist challenges. Practice leaders Patrick Gadson and Lawrence Elbaum both have dedicated practices in shareholder activism, assisting with competitive proxy solicitations, strategic investor relations, and corporate governance. Elbaum is admired for his ‘great rapport with clients‘, and Gadson draws together complementary expertise across private equity, M&A, and shareholder activism. Supporting the practice heads are Anita Balasubramanian, Desiree Baca, and Brett Peace, who all have broad experience across corporate and securities law. Above named lawyers are all based in New York, save for Peace, who is at the Houston office.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners: Advice to boards United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Shareholder activism United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government contracts
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism