Scott is “a great lawyer” and “an excellent attorney who is very knowledgeable in his area and has a keen sense of managing business and legal issues.”
- Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
Scott Gordon is the leader of Kirkland’s Derivatives Practice Group and a member of the Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group. Scott is a leading counsel to end-users, representing clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to many of the world’s preeminent private equity funds and their portfolio companies in connection with structuring, negotiating and documenting interest rate, currency, commodity, credit and equity derivative transactions. Scott also advises clients on derivatives regulation and derivatives issues in M&A, restructuring and securitization matters and acts as lead counsel in securitization offerings.
Scott is also a senior member of Kirkland’s Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group, where he acts as lead counsel in securitization transactions, with a focus on timeshare loans and esoteric assets, and handles matters relating to collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and collateralized fund obligation (CFO) transactions.
Scott is recognized as a “leading lawyer” for Derivatives in the 2014–2024 editions of Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and the 2015–2024 editions of Chambers Global, The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In the 2022 edition of Chambers USA, clients describe him as “a great lawyer” and “an excellent attorney who is very knowledgeable in his area and has a keen sense of managing business and legal issues.” They praise Scott’s ability to guide clients “through a number of time-sensitive parts of a complex transaction” and for always providing “excellent service on complex ISDA matters.” Previous editions of Chambers USA and of Chambers Global have noted that clients also praise Scott’s strengths as “technical expertise, the ability to effectively communicate, being a good listener and his care for the end product” and that clients describe Scott as "very collaborative, a problem-solver" and say he "has a good balance of the commercial aspects of the derivatives market." Clients also praise Scott as "a master of the domains within which he practices" and "a very strong negotiator on our behalf.“
Most recently, he was recognized in IFLR1000 for 2023 as “Highly Regarded” in Derivatives law; a designation conferred upon “[l]awyers who are highly regarded by their peers, possess a strong transactional record and consistently receive positive client feedback.
The 2014 edition of The Legal 500 U.S. noted that, Scott brings “good insight into current market terms and provides pragmatic advice.” In 2014, IFLR1000 also lauded Scott’s work in Derivatives, citing his guidance to corporate clients.
Scott received the Lawyers Alliance for New York (LANY) Cornerstone Award for excellence in his pro bono work with LANY clients in 2012.
Representative Clients
Funds
- ABRY Partners, Apollo, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Blue Owl Capital, Brookfield Asset Management, KKR, Lone Star, Madison Deaborn Partners, Oaktree, Starwood, Summit Partners, Thoma Bravo, TPG, Vista Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus
Corporates
- Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Fox Corporation, Just Energy Group, Kellogg, Travel + Leisure and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
