ASSOCIATE – CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & BANKRUPTCYKronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP · Aug 2000 – May 2005
ASSOCIATE – LITIGATIONBaer, Marks & Upham LLP · Sep 1999 – May 2000
SUMMER ASSOCIATEBaer, Marks & Upham LLP · Jan 1998 – Jan 1998internship
Delegate representing the New York City Bar AssociationUnited Nations Commission on International Trade Law · Jan 2022 – Present
Member of committee addressing legal and policy issues related to bankruptcy and corporate reorganizationsNew York City Bar Association · Jan 2021 – Present
Co-chair of cross-border restructuring sub-committeeNew York City Bar Association · Jan 2021 – Present
Immediate Past ChairpersonU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida · Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
ChairpersonU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida · Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Vice ChairpersonU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida · Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
SecretaryU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida · Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Founder and former co-chairperson of the Claims Trading CommitteeAmerican Bankruptcy Institute · Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
AmbassadorTurnaround Management Association · Jan 2009 – Jan 2017
Co-founderTurnaround Management Association · Jan 2009 – Jan 2017
Member – Editorial BoardInternational Corporate Rescue · Jan 2006 – Jan 2017
Member – Executive CommitteeNational Conference of Bankruptcy Judges · Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Official Liaison to the Ordem dos Advogados do BrasilAmerican Bar Association · Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR–ADJUNCT PROFESSORChina University of Political Science and Law · Jan 2019 – Jan 2019part-time
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR – ONEMBA (EMBA)Getulio Vargas Foundation - Graduate School of Business Administration (FGV-EAESP) · Jan 2012 – Jan 2016part-time
Fulbright ScholarJ. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board · Jan 2019 – Jan 2019contract
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Education
Columbia Law Schoolmaster, Law (2025)
Boston College Law Schooldoctorate, Law (1999)
University of Cambridgemaster, Accounting
University of Oxfordmaster, Major Programme Management (2017)
Fundação Getulio Vargasmaster, Business Administration (2011)
Teachers College, Columbia Universitymaster, Educational Philosophy
Florida Bar AdmissionMassachusetts Bar AdmissionNew York Bar AdmissionUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit AdmissionUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit AdmissionUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit AdmissionUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Florida AdmissionUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Florida AdmissionUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Florida AdmissionUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts AdmissionUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York AdmissionUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of New York AdmissionCourt of International Trade Admission