Jason PierceJasonPierce
Of Counsel, Financial Restructuring
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.
Cornell Law School, J.D., 2012
Ryerson University, B.A., 2007
New York Bar
California Bar
AD1 Urban Palm Bay, LLC (secured lender)
Avaya, Inc. (first and second lien creditors, DIP lenders)
“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, Co-Author
2018
“Impairment of Pension Plans in Chapter 9 Reorganizations: The City of Stockton Confirmation Decision,” Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, Co-Author
2016
“A South American Energy Treaty: How the Region Might Attract Foreign Investment in a Wake of Resource Nationalism,“ Cornell International Law Journal, Author
2011