Berger Singerman Partner Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Joins Advisory Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s New York City Bankruptcy Conference

January 4, 2021

Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, has accepted an invitation from the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) to join the Advisory Board of the New York City Bankruptcy Conference to be held virtually during May, 2021.

The ABI is the largest association of bankruptcy professionals in the United States, made up of over 12,000 members in multi-disciplinary roles, including attorneys, auctioneers, bankers, judges, lenders, professors, turnaround specialists, accountants and others.  The ABI is committed to serving its members with high-quality conferences, comprehensive continuing education, effective legal research, and dynamic networking opportunities.  The annual New York City Bankruptcy Conference features a unique gathering of speakers discussing today’s latest trends and tested insolvency-related solutions in one of the most significant gatherings of experienced insolvency and restructuring professionals in the New York metro area.

Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute, and he recently served as a Fulbright scholar at the Bankruptcy Law & Restructuring Research Center at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, China.  Mr. Jarvinen received his law degree from Boston College Law School, his undergraduate degree in economics from Brown University, graduate degrees in theological ethics and religion from, respectively, Harvard Divinity School and Yale Divinity School, a global Executive Master of Business Administration from FGV-EAESP in São Paulo, Brazil and both a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership and a Master of Science degree in Major Programme Management from the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford.  He has also studied at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge.  In his spare time, Mr. Jarvinen is currently obtaining a master of applied science in global health planning and management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.