| Richard G. Mason has been a partner in the Restructuring and Finance Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1994. Mr. Mason is active in all aspects of the firm's insolvency practice. He has represented bank and bondholder groups, creditors' committees and acquirers in many large bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructurings in the United States as well as other countries. He also represents borrowers in leveraged buyouts, mergers, and other complex financing transactions.
Mr. Mason is a co-author of Collier's Bankruptcy Practice Guide, and has given numerous seminars on bankruptcy subjects for Practicing Law Institute, the Canadian Institute, the New York University School of Law Bankruptcy and Reorganization Workshop and other prominent organizations. Mr. Mason has been identified by Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers as one of the leading insolvency lawyers in the United States.
Mr. Mason graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983 with a B.S. in economics. He was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor fraternity while at Virginia Commonwealth University. Mr. Mason received a J.D. cum laude from New York University in 1987. At NYU, he became a member of the Order of the Coif and was on the staff of the Annual Survey of American Law.
Mr. Mason is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar and the American Bar Association. He is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a vice-chair of the Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group of the UJA - Federation of New York's Lawyers Divison, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boy Scouts of America's Greater New York Councils. |
