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Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Spoke in São Paulo (Brazil) at the National Conference of the Turnaround Management Association – Brazil
October 15, 2021
Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, spoke on the panel, “Challenges to the Creditors’ Plan of Reorganization: Valuation of Companies” (Desafio do plano de credores: valuation das companhias), at the XIII National Congress of the Turnaround Management Association-Brasil (TMA-Brasil) which took place on October 15, 2021 in São Paulo, Brazil.
The TMA-Brasil is the Brazilian chapter of the TMA, the premier professional community dedicated to turnaround management and corporate renewal. TMA’s strength comes from its diverse membership – professionals from many disciplines committed to a common goal: to stabilize and revitalize corporate value. The TMA-Brasil has more than 650 members. The annual conference of the TMA-Brasil routinely draws more than 1,500 in-person and online participants. In addition, the TMA-Brasil annually organizes more than 50 turnaround and restructuring courses, seminars and events throughout Brazil. Mr. Jarvinen was one of the co-founders of the TMA-Brasil. The panel on which Mr. Jarvinen spoke discussed recent themes related to valuing public and private companies in relation to confirmation of plans of reorganization both in Brazil and the United States.
Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, the American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute, and he has served as a Fulbright scholar at the Bankruptcy Law & Restructuring Research Center in Beijing, China. He 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 Harvard Divinity School and Yale Divinity School, a Global Executive Master of Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV-EAESP) 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 served as an adjunct professor at FGV-EAESP teaching international legal management. In his spare time, Mr. Jarvinen is currently pursuing a master of international health management from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health
