Mark D Bloom

Practice Areas

Mark Bloom is the North America Chair of the Firm's Global Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in the Miami office, Mark has over 40 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.

Mark has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1993 and is also listed in the Chambers USA Guide. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Maryland School of Law.

Mark's diverse experience, spanning more than 40 years, includes all areas of US and cross-border financial restructuring, reorganization and bankruptcy, involving the representation of debtors, US and foreign fiduciaries, secured and unsecured creditors, and official committees and purchasers of troubled companies and their assets, both in and out of bankruptcy court.

Widely recognized as a leader and leading authority in the insolvency profession both in the U.S. and around the world, Mark is a Past Chair and President of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy, into which he was inducted as a Fellow in 1998. He currently serves as Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the similarly prestigious International Insolvency Institute, into which he was invited as a member in 2014. Mark is one of only 105 worldwide members of the International Exchange of Experience on Insolvency Law and also has been an active member of INSOL International for 25 years, co-chairing its Annual Conference on International Insolvency in 2012.

Mark remains much in demand as a speaker and visiting lecturer at industry conferences and leading universities around the world. He has written and published extensively and lectured on five continents for INSOL, the American Bankruptcy Institute, ALI-ABA, the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, RISA and other organizations, and at the Harvard Business School and University of Chicago Law School. His presentations and articles cover a wide range of topics 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, and authored multiple articles in those and other leading insolvency publications.

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, “Civil RICO Claims After Yegiazaryan v. Smagin: A New Litigation Tool for Chapter 15 Foreign Representatives in the United States?,” INSOL World Fourth Quarter 2023, December 2023 (with Nicholas Kennedy and Alexander Burch)

Co-author, “OAS Group: A Tale of Two Chapter 15 Cases in the United States,” INSOL World Fourth Quarter 2023, November 2023 (with Vitor Araujo)

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

Languages Spoken

English

Education