Mitchell R. Julis (born April 14, 1955) is an American businessman and co-founding partner of Los Angeles hedge fund Canyon Capital Advisors.
[3] Mitchell attended the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, graduating in 1977 with a bachelor of arts degree magna cum laude.
A summer internship with a bankruptcy firm in Los Angeles lessened Julis’ interest in practicing law.
In 1982, Julis was reporting an article for Los Angeles Magazine about getting rich in a recession, which led him to interview Henry Wilf, an employee of bond trading firm Drexel Burnham Lambert.
In 1982, Julis took a job as a bankruptcy and creditors’ rights attorney at New York law firm Wachtell, Litpton, Rosen & Katz.