Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Mudrick Capital Management, LP
Jason is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Mudrick Capital Management, L.P., an investment firm that specializes in long and short investments in special situation credits. Mudrick Capital was founded in 2009 with $5 million under management. As of June 2023, the firm has grown to manage approximately $3.1 billion, primarily for institutional clients.
Jason began his Wall Street career in 2000 advising on mergers and acquisition transactions as an Associate in Merrill Lynch’s Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Group. In 2001 he joined Contrarian Capital Management, where he began his focus on special situation investing. In October 2002 Jason launched the Contrarian Equity Fund, an investment vehicle focused on purchasing debt that would be restructured into equity, post-bankruptcy equities and other event driven deep value special situations. As Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Contrarian, Jason grew that business to peak assets of approximately $400 million in the Contrarian Equity Fund and close to $1 billion in total assets including the positions Contrarian’s other funds co-invested along-side Jason's fund. Jason left Contrarian in October 2008 to launch Mudrick Capital.
Jason has served on dozens of creditors' committees and served on the Board of Directors of numerous public and private companies, including Safety-Kleen Holdings, Integrated Alarm Services Group, Salton, Rotech Healthcare, NJOY Holdings, Corporate Risk Holdings, Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation, Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II, Fieldwood Energy, Proenza Schouler, Affinion, cxLoyalty, Tenerity, AURA Network Systems, Thryv and Nelson Education. Jason also spent two years in graduate school teaching economics classes to Harvard University undergraduates. Jason has a B.A. in Political Science from the College of the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Jason was admitted to the New York State Bar.
Partner
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Matt Barr is Co-Chair of the Restructuring Department and a member of the Management Committee at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Matt has extensive experience leading representations of debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bondholders, ad hoc groups, private equity funds, acquirers of assets, hedge funds and other institutions acquiring controlling positions in financially distressed companies in chapter 11 reorganization cases and out-of-court restructurings both in the United States and internationally. Matt’s engagements have ranged across a wide array of industries, including retail, telecommunication, chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, energy, oil and gas, automotive, apparel, manufacturing, project finance and shipping. He has drawn upon his broad experience to develop and advise clients on practical solutions and build the consensus required to implement these solutions. Some of Matt’s most recent high-profile matters include the representation of Talen Energy in its $5 billion chapter 11 case, Fieldwood Energy in its $1.8 billion chapter 11, the representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with the $5.35 billion chapter 11 cases of Cineworld, and representation of a Steering Committee of convertible noteholders of Cazoo Group Ltd on the $630 million exchange offer and series of restructuring transactions, among others.
Matt has consistently been recognized over the years as one of the nation’s leading restructuring lawyers by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, IFLR1000, Lawdragon, Legal 500, Guide to World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers (Legal Media Group), and Super Lawyers, among others. Commentators in Chambers USA have called him “tremendously bright, responsive and reliable,” and “a measured, strong advocate” that knows “how to get to a resolution in a case.” IFLR1000 called him “a very strong and commercial lawyer. He never loses his cool and always finds a way to get to yes.”
Currently Matt serves on the board of directors for the American Red Cross (Greater NY) and the National Kidney Foundation (Greater NY). Matt is also on the Board of Trustees at New York Law School and a Trustee of the Weil Foundation. He services as the Management Committee Sponsor for WeilLatinx and is co-chair of Weil’s Philanthropic Committee. Matt joined Weil in 2015 from a major international law firm, where he was a senior equity partner, resident in that Firm’s New York office. Matt has contributed to various publications over the years on topics ranging from valuation litigation, in- and out-of-court remedies of creditors and asset sales. Matt has participated on a variety of panels as both a moderator and speaker.
