Gordon D. Henderson

Gordon D. Henderson has been a partner, and is now of counsel, in the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York City. He received his A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1951, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1957, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has had extensive experience in major bankruptcy cases extending over 25 years. He has Chaired the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association, the Committee on Corporation Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Policy Advisory Group for the New York Joint Legislative Commission to Study the New York State Tax Laws. He has been a member of the New York City Tax Study Commission.

He has been a visiting lecturer on corporation tax law at Yale Law School and has been a frequent speaker at tax institutes and a writer of numerous articles on tax subjects. He served as Special Counsel to the SEC and Associate Director of one of its divisions during the Kennedy Administration. He has also been a member of the Little, Brown Tax Practice Advisory Board.