Founded in the first quarter of 2011 by Mark Lee, Mountaineer Partners Management is a distinguished hedge fund manager located in New York. Specializing in the Mountaineer Partners fund, the firm pursues investment opportunities through value-oriented and event-driven strategies, focusing on equities and distressed debt. Mountaineer Partners Management strategically selects positions based on catalysts that have yet to be fully priced into the securities, including events like spin-offs, aiming to capitalize on undervalued assets and potential market inefficiencies.
Mark Lee is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Mountaineer Partners Management, LLC, a dynamic hedge fund specializing in opportunistic value and event-driven strategies since its inception in 2012. His extensive career in finance began at Credit Suisse First Boston in 1992, where he started as an investment banker. Mark later transitioned to roles at Centre Partners, an affiliate of Lazard focused on private equity, and Blavin & Co., a concentrated, long-biased value fund, where he served as an Associate. In 1999, Mark joined Contrarian Capital Management, a renowned multibillion-dollar hedge fund firm, as a distressed debt analyst. Notably, in 2003, he founded and managed the Contrarian Long Short Fund, a role he held for eight years until he departed in January 2011 to establish Mountaineer. During his tenure at Contrarian, Mark also took on the management of the Contrarian Distressed Equity Fund from late 2008 until his departure, employing an analytical framework similar to that of Mountaineer Partners. Mark holds an MBA from Harvard Business School
Mountaineer Partners Management operates as a hedge fund managing discretionary assets totaling $252,656,089, as reported in their Form ADV dated March 2024. Serving 4 clients, the firm's latest 13F filing for Q1 2024 disclosed $216,607,938 in managed 13F securities, highlighting a significant top-10 holdings concentration of 81.84%. Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. stands as Mountaineer Partners Management's largest holding, with 2,168,876 shares held.