Christopher A. Jarvinen

Career

Christopher Andrew Jarvinen is a partner on the Business Reorganization Team at Berger Singerman LLP in Miami. His extensive experience has equipped him to provide clients in a diverse range of industries with value-added, cost-effective solutions for complex, business and litigation, challenges arising in the context of financially-distressed situations, corporate restructurings, and contentious bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, the American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute. During 2019, he served as a Fulbright scholar at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, PRC. 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 EMBA 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 University of Oxford. Mr. Jarvinen is currently obtaining an Executive LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School. He has also studied in graduate programs at Teachers College of Columbia University, the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For three years, Mr. Jarvinen taught International Legal Management to graduate business students at FGV-EAESP.

Professional Memberships

-Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the New York City Bar Association

-Chairperson of the Standing Bankruptcy Lawyers Advisory Committee (LAC), U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida

-Vice Chairperson of the Lawyers Advisory Committee, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida

-Founder and Co-Chair of Claims Trading Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute

-Member of Advisory Board, American Bankruptcy Institute - New York City Bankruptcy Conference

-Member of Advisory Board, International Cross-Border Insolvency Program - New York

-American Bankruptcy Institute - Caribbean Insolvency Symposium

-Co-Founder and Current Member, TMA Brasil

-Member, Lambda Legal

Publications

- Jarvinen, C. A., & Stong, E. S. (2019, June 18). Letter From the Co-Chairs. Claims Trading: An ABI Committee Newsletter. http://connect.abi.org/webmail/107412/511517803/0559c3a0f45ca40da3ece0d37c4435046896802d29684271e0464b163b243950 .

-Singerman, P. S., Homer, I. M., Guso, J., & Jarvinen, C. A. (2019, May 8). United States: Restructuring & Insolvency (3rd edition). Restructuring & Insolvency (3rd edition).

- Singerman, P. S., Homer, I. M., Guso, J., & Jarvinen, C. A. (2020, June 7). United States: Restructuring & Insolvency (3rd edition). Restructuring & Insolvency (4th edition).

-Singerman, P. S., Homer, I. M., Guso, J., & Jarvinen, C. A. (2022, July 26). United States: Restructuring & Insolvency. The Legal 500: Country Comparative Guides. https://www.legal500.com/guides/chapter/united-states-restructuring-insolvency/