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The ABI Journal Publishes Christopher Andrew Jarvinen’s Article, “Private Sales of Operating Businesses in Chapter 11 Cases: An Overview”
December 2, 2025
By: Christopher Andrew Jarvinen
ABI Journal
The ABI Journal, the official monthly publication of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), has published an article by Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP. The ABI is the nation’s largest association of bankruptcy professionals, and its members serve in multi-disciplinary roles, including attorneys, auctioneers, bankers, judges, lenders, professors, turnaround specialists, accountants, and others. Founded in 1982, the ABI plays a leading role in providing U.S. congressional leaders and the general public with non-partisan reporting and analysis of bankruptcy regulations, laws, and trends. The ABI Journal, which is sent monthly to the nearly 11,000 members of the ABI, features expert commentary, industry trends, and strategic insights on bankruptcy and insolvency law for professionals and stakeholders.
Mr. Jarvinen’s article, “Private Sales of Operating Businesses in Chapter 11 Cases: An Overview,” focuses on the currently underutilized approach in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of selling complete operating business by means of a private sale approach. The article may be accessed on the website of the ABI at: https://www.abi.org/abi-journal.
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. For four years, Mr. Jarvinen was also an adjunct professor at the Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EASEP) in São Paulo, Brazil, teaching courses focused on international legal management. He received his law degrees from Boston College Law School and Columbia 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 FGV-EASEP, and both a Postgraduate Diploma in Organizational 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.
