Mark D Bloom

Practice Areas

Mark Bloom is a Partner with the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice based in the Firm's Miami office. He has over 35 years of experience representing clients in a wide array of US and cross-border financial restructuring, reorganization and bankruptcy matters. In recent years he has focused the majority of his practice on complex cross-border insolvency cases and situations involving the application of Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code, the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, and the insolvency regimes of various jurisdictions.

Practice Focus

Mark regularly represents distressed companies, fiduciaries, secured and unsecured creditors, distressed asset purchasers in US and international proceedings conducted both in and out of court.

Mark served a two year term as Chair of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy from 2020-2022, having been inducted as a Fellow in 1998. For over 15 years, he has served the College in a variety of leadership roles, as President, Director, Vice President, Regent, and as Chair of the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation. Mark has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1993, and is also listed in Global, National and listings of the Chambers Guides and in the K&A Restructuring Register of America's Top 100 Restructuring Professionals.

Mark was inducted into the International Insolvency Institute in 2014, and also has been an active member of INSOL International for 20 years, co-chairing its Annual Conference on International Insolvency in 2012. He has written and published extensively and lectured on five continents for INSOL, ALI-ABA, the International Section of the New York State Bar Association and other organizations, and at the Harvard Business School, on areas of interest to insolvency professionals, particularly including cross-border recognition and international comity and cooperation. He has served on the Editorial Boards of both INSOL World and the International Insolvency Law Review.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy, 1998-Present

-Chair, 2020-2022

-President, 2018-2020

-Chair, American College of Bankruptcy Foundation, 2014-2018

-Vice President, 2010-2014

-Director, 2007-2010

-Board of Regents, 2003-2007

Member, International Insolvency Institute, 2014-Present

Board Member, INSOL World Editorial Board, 2014-2016

Member, International Exchange of Experience in Insolvency (IEEI), an elite group of 104 judges, academics and insolvency practitioners from 34 countries, 2020-Present

Board Member, International Insolvency Law Review, Editorial Board, 2014-2016

Co-Chair, INSOL International Annual Regional Conference on International Insolvency, May 2012

Board Member, Camillus House of Miami, Board of Directors

Past President, Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida

Publications

Co-author, "When is an Entity an 'Instrumentality' of the State for Chapter 11 Eligibility?" The Bond Buyer, November 2018

Co-author, "Substantive Consolidation in United States Bankruptcy Cases," INSOL World, 2017

Co-author, "OAS Group: A Tale of Two Chapter 15 Cases in the United States," INSOL World, November 2015

Co-author, "Untapped Opportunities Abound in New Italian Bankruptcy Law," INSOL World, 2015

Co-author, "Submission to Jurisdiction in Insolvency Claims and Availability of Cross-Border Anti-Suit Relief – The BVI and US Perspective on the Privy Council Decision in Stichting Shell Pensioenfonds v. Krys and Another," INSOL World, 2015