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Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Invited to Join the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the New York City Bar Association
September 14, 2021
Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, has been invited to join the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the New York City Bar Association (City Bar).
The City Bar, founded in 1870, has over 25,000 members. Its stated mission is “to equip and mobilize a diverse legal profession to practice with excellence, promote reform of the law, and uphold the rule of law and access to justice in support of a fair society and the public interest in our community, our nation, and throughout the world.” The Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the City Bar addresses legal and policy issues relating to bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations. Its members typically serve for three-year terms.
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 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 taught International Legal Management at FGV-EAESP. 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.
