Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Attends the Sixty-Sixth Session of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group V (Insolvency Law)
May 19, 2025
Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, attended the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group V (Insolvency Law) held at the United Nations in New York City between May 12-16. 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.
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 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 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 Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, and Mr. Jarvinen is currently pursuing an Executive LL.M. degree at Columbia Law School. He has also attended the University of Cambridge and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Mr. Jarvinen served as an adjunct professor at FGV-EAESP teaching courses focused on international legal management.