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Overview
Jason Pierce is of counsel in the Financial Restructuring group of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's San Diego office. His practice focuses on representing and advising creditors, ad hoc committees, official committees of unsecured creditors and strategic investors in in-court and out-of-court restructuring transactions, and in developing and executing structures and strategies to maximize returns for his clients.
Jason’s breadth of experience is complemented by a clerkship with Chief Judge Martin Glenn, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and a recent secondment to the credit group of a large investment management firm.
Admitted in California and New York.
Education
- Cornell Law School, J.D., 2012
- Ryerson University, B.A., 2007
Representations
- AD1 Urban Palm Bay, LLC (secured lender)
- Avaya, Inc. (first and second lien creditors, DIP lenders)
- Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, Inc. (first lien lenders)
- EP Energy Corporation (official committee of unsecured creditors)
- Extraction Oil & Gas Inc. (official committee of unsecured creditors)
- Franchise Group (ad hoc group of first lien and DIP lenders)
- J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (first and second lien creditors)
- K-V Pharmaceutical Company (official committee of unsecured creditors)
- LightSquared LP (secured lender)
- Lonestar Resources US Inc. (unsecured noteholders)
- MIE Holdings Corporation (foreign representative in chapter 15 proceeding)
- Monitronics International, Inc. (unsecured noteholders)
- PG&E Corporation (DIP agent)
- Sandy Creek Energy Associates, L.P. (first lien lenders)
- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (official committee of unsecured creditors)
- Toys-R-Us, Inc. (FILO DIP lenders)
- TPC Group (first and second lien noteholders, DIP lenders, backstop parties)
Engagement & Publications
- Co-author, “What to Make of the ‘Make-Whole’ Circuit Split: The Enforceability of Make-Whole Provisions in Bankruptcy After Momentive and EFH,” Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2018
- Co-author, “Impairment of Pension Plans in Chapter 9 Reorganizations: The City of Stockton Confirmation Decision,” Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2016
- Author, “A South American Energy Treaty: How the Region Might Attract Foreign Investment in a Wake of Resource Nationalism,“ Cornell International Law Journal, 2011