Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Appointed as Vice-Chairperson of the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida

September 20, 2020

Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, has accepted an invitation to serve as Vice-Chairperson of the Lawyers Advisory Committee (“LAC”) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida (“Court”).  

The LAC acts as a liaison between the Court and individual bankruptcy law practitioners throughout the district, as well as develops, implements, and maintains various bankruptcy related programs in the district, as requested by the Court.  The LAC also fulfills a variety of other purposes including receiving requests from the Court to consider issues relating to, arising from, and/or affecting the practice of law before the Court, and to recommend to the Court changes in bankruptcy practice and/or procedure throughout the district.  Mr. Jarvinen’s current three-year term runs through December 31, 2022.  

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 FGV-EAESP in São Paulo, Brazil, 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, and is he is currently pursuing a Master of Applied Science in Global Health Planning and Management from the Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Mr. Jarvinen has also served as an adjunct professor of business at FGV-EAESP teaching courses focused on international legal management.