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Christopher Andrew Jarvinen to Serve on Host Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in Washington, D.C.
October 6, 2019
Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, has accepted an invitation to serve on the host committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s opening reception at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) to be held on Wednesday, October 30th.
The ABI is the nation’s largest association of bankruptcy professionals, 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 NCBJ is an official association comprised of U.S. Bankruptcy Judges and other qualifying international judges. The NCBJ has several core purposes, including (i) providing continuing legal education to judges, lawyers, and other involved professionals, (ii) promoting cooperation among the U.S. Bankruptcy Judges, (iii) securing a greater degree of quality and uniformity in the administration of the U.S. Bankruptcy system, and (iv) improving the practice of law in the Bankruptcy Courts of the United States.
Each year, the NCBJ attracts thousands of current and retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judges, attorneys, professional turnaround specialists, accountants, bankers, lenders, auctioneers, academics, trustees, and other professionals involved in the area of corporate restructuring and consumer bankruptcies for a four-day conference. This year, the NCBJ will be held between October 30th and November 2nd in Washington, D.C. Additional information about the ABI’s involvement with this year’s NCBJ may be found here.
Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute. 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, respectively, 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 of business at FGV-EAESP teaching courses focused on international legal management. Mr. Jarvinen recently received a Fulbright scholar grant and served in residence at the Bankruptcy Law & Restructuring Research Center of the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.
