Berger Singerman Partner Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Joins Advisory Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Cross-Border Insolvency Program

May 19, 2019

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 Cross Border Insolvency Program to be held in New York City on November 7, 2019.

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 Cross-Border Insolvency Program features a unique gathering of high-level speakers from a variety of nations discussing today’s most relevant cross-border cases and topics. 

Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, 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 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.