Mark D. Bloom
Mark Bloom is a Partner with the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice based in the Firm's Miami office. He has over 35 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 regularly represents distressed companies, fiduciaries, secured and unsecured creditors, distressed asset purchasers in US and international proceedings conducted both in and out of court.
Mark currently serves a two year term as Chair of the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy, having been inducted as a Fellow in 1998. For over 15 years, he has served the College in a variety of leadership roles, as President, Director, Vice President, Regent, and as Chair of the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation. Mark has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1993, and is also listed in Global, National and listings of the Chambers Guides and in the K&A Restructuring Register of America's Top 100 Restructuring Professionals.
Mark was inducted into the International Insolvency Institute in 2014, and also has been an active member of INSOL International for 20 years, co-chairing its Annual Conference on International Insolvency in 2012. He has written and published extensively and lectured on five continents for INSOL, ALI-ABA, the International Section of the New York State Bar Association and other organizations, and at the Harvard Business School, on areas 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.
Advised a leading Asia Pacific international airline on cross-border insolvency issues under the US Bankruptcy Code and UNCITRAL Model Law in connection with successful reorganization under local country rehabilitation law.
Advised Objecting Noteholders in an Indonesia-based telecommunication services provider's Chapter 15 case involving USD 770 million in debt, defeating relief requested in the Southern District of New York in connection with an Indonesian PKPU proceeding.
Advised foreign representatives of Cayman Islands segregated portfolio company in obtaining recognition and relief under Chapter 15 in the Southern District of Florida and recovery of assets in the United States.
Advised India-based conglomerate on issues of cross-border insolvency law in connection with successful English scheme of arrangement.
Advised noteholders of Singapore-Indonesia conglomerate on issues relating to cross-border insolvency law in connection with successful Singapore scheme of arrangement.
Advised debtors in an energy company's Chapter 11 cases, and in connection with related English cross-border ancillary proceeding of London Stock Exchange-listed parent.
Advised dissenting Portuguese shareholders in a large fixed telephone operator's Chapter 15 cases in Southern District of New York.
Advised debtors in merchant credit advance companies' Chapter 11 cases.
Advised multiple creditors in a Korean shipping company's Chapter 15 case.
Advised BVI liquidator and debtor in a calcium silicon and ferroalloys producer's Chapter 11 case and sale of equity interests in subsidiaries.
Professional Honors
Listed, Lawdragon 500 Leading US Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers, 2020 and 2022
Named, Client Service All Star, BTI Client Service All-Stars Report, Public Finance, 2019
Listed, The Legal 500 United States, 2009-2019
Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2003-2022
Insolvency and Restructuring, 2003-2017
Bankruptcy/Restructuring, 2018-2021
Bankruptcy Litigation, 2020-2021
Listed, Chambers Global, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (USA), 2013-2019
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy, 1993-2022
Selected, "Lawyer of the Year," Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Miami, 2019
Selected, "Lawyer of the Year," 2010
Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2006-2021
"Top 100 Lawyers in Florida," 2006-2008, 2013, and 2015-2016
"Top 100 Lawyers in Miami," 2010-2018
Listed, South Florida Legal Guide, "Top Lawyer," 2013-2019
Listed, Florida Trend magazine, 2004-2013, 2015-2019
"Hall of Fame," Bankruptcy & Workout, 2015, 2016-2019
"Hall of Fame," Insolvency and Restructuring, 2009-2013
Listed, Who's Who Legal - The International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers
Recommended as a "Global Leader: Restructuring & Insolvency," 2021
Recommended as a "National Leader: Florida - Restructuring & Insolvency," 2020
Listed, The K&A Restructuring Register, "America's Top 100"
Rated, AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5, Martindale-Hubbell
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, IEEI, 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
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit~United States (1981)
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit~United States (1981)
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida~United States (1981)
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida~United States (1981)
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado~United States (2007)
Florida~United States (1980)
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit~United States (1980)
U.S. District Court, District of Maryland~United States (1980)
University of Maryland (JD, with honors) (1979)
Yale University (BA) (1975)
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
Co-author, "Questions Left Unanswered in High Court's Arkison Ruling," Law360, June 2014
Author, "A Continuing Trend Toward Limiting Bankruptcy Court Power," Law360, March 2014
Author, "Chapter 15: Appeals Court Imposes Requirement That Foreign Debtor Have Property in United States as Condition to Eligibility," INSOL World, 2014
Speaker and Panelist, "Changes on the Far Eastern Horizon: What do political and policy changes portend for distressed investing in Asia?," 28th Annual Distressed Investing Conference, New York, November 2021
Speaker, "Let Me Count the Ways: The Influence of Secured Creditors in US Chapter 11 Cases," INSOL International's Mexico City One-Day Seminar, February 2020
Speaker, "Strategic Considerations in Contested US Chapter 15 Cases," American College of Bankruptcy Eleventh Circuit Program, February 2020
Speaker, "INSOL International Annual Regional Conference in Singapore," INSOL's Annual Regional Conference, April 2019
Speaker, "The GRR Live Question Time," Global Restructuring Review 2nd Annual Live Offshore, March 2019
Moderator and Speaker, "Across a Well-Traveled Border: Experience in US-Canadian Insolvency Proceedings," New York State Bar Association, International Section, October 2018
Moderator, "Cross-Border Insolvency: Implications of the Hanjin Shipping Bankruptcy," New York State Bar Association, International Section's 2018 Asian Regional Meeting, April 2018
Speaker, "Lessons Learned in Cross-Border Insolvencies," INSOL International Buenos Aires One Day Seminar, March 2018
Speaker, "Comparative Analysis of Substantive Consolidation Under US and Brazilian Law," INSOL International One-Day Conference, May 2017
Speaker, "How to Ensure Payments and Address Tenant Bankruptcies," American Association of Port Authorities' Port Administration & Legal Issues Seminar, March 2017
Moderator and Speaker, "Shipping Cases: What Port in a Storm," International Insolvency Institute Latin America Regional Conference, February 2017
Speaker, "Universalism and Territorialism in Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings: An American Lawyer's Perspective," New York State Bar Association International Section Event, January 2017
Pre-Eminent Cross-Border Restructuring Team Led by Chair of the American College of Bankruptcy Joins Baker McKenzie