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Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Attends the Colloquium at the Sixty-Seventh Session of Working Group V of UNCITRAL
December 12, 2025
On December 11-12, 2025, Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, attended the Colloquium portion of the sixty-seventh session of Working Group V of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). UNCITRAL plays a key role in developing and maintaining a robust cross-border legal framework for the facilitation of international trade and investment in pursuit of its mandate to further the progressive harmonization and modernization of the law of international trade. UNCITRAL does this by preparing and promoting the use and adoption of legislative and non-legislative instruments in a number of key areas of commercial law. Working Group V of UNCITRAL focuses on insolvency law. During the Colloquium, the participants focused on discussing possible updates to the Guide to Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency.
Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, the American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute, and during 2019, he served as a Fulbright scholar at the Bankruptcy Law & Restructuring Research Center of the China University of Political Science and Law located in Beijing, China. He is currently planning to return to China during 2026 to teach U.S. corporate insolvency law. Mr. Jarvinen received his law degrees from Columbia Law School (LL.M.) and Boston College Law School (J.D.), 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 the Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EASEP), both a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership and a Master of Science degree in Major Programme Management from the University of Oxford. He has also attended the University of Cambridge and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For several years, Mr. Jarvinen served as an adjunct professor at FGV-EAESP teaching courses focused on international legal management.
