GORDON DAVIDSON has extensive experience in complex domestic and cross-border financial restructurings, contentious and non-contentious insolvencies and workouts. He is well-versed on the creditor side and regularly advises hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks and other distressed debt and par investors, as well as notably leading major precedent setting company-side restructurings for companies, sponsors and insolvency practitioners.
Gordon has been recognized in the 2023 and 2024 editions of Legal 500 APAC for Hong Kong – Restructuring and Insolvency. In the 2024 edition, Gordon is described as “an excellent practitioner who has a deep knowledge of the intricacies that inevitably attach to complex multi-jurisdictional debt restructurings”, and that he is “incredibly responsive and also has a good eye for a commercial outcome for his clients”. In the 2023 edition, a client commented “without a doubt Gordon Davidson is a stand out partner”, who is “technically excellent plus very commercial and a pleasure to work with”. Gordon is further recognized as someone who “understands his clients, remains cool and collected and able to take key decisions under pressure”, and was highly praised for being “impressive and engaging”. Gordon is recognized as a “Rising Star partner” in IFLR 1000, one of six recognized restructuring practitioners at Sidley Austin worldwide.
Prior to joining Sidley, Gordon practiced as an associate at a leading law firm in the Cayman Islands and at major U.S. law firms in London, focusing on restructuring and special situations. While at Sidley Gordon previously spent nine months seconded to a firm-client, a major distressed debt and special situations hedge fund, operating globally.