He has worked on numerous high-profile and complex restructuring and infrastructure project transactions in emerging markets. He has also advised multilateral institutions and national governments in developing countries and emerging markets on a wide range of financial and commercial matters. He has published numerous articles in leading professional journals, held leadership positions in major professional organizations, and has taught at law schools in the US and China, including Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL), Shenzhen, and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, and has been a frequent lecturer at the International Law Institute (ILI) in Washington, DC. He is frequently invited to lecture at prestigious forums around the world, including at academic, professional, and industry conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a Founding Member and former two-term Board member of the International Insolvency Institute (III), a member of the International Exchange of Experience on Insolvency Law (IEEI), a member of the World Bank’s Task Force on Insolvency & Creditor/Debtor Regimes, and an expert with P.R.I.ME. Finance. He served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Subcommittee on International Bankruptcy of the Business Bankruptcy Committee, and he currently serves as Vice-Chair of its Coordinating Committee for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and as an ABA delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law).

A former Henry Luce Scholar in Singapore, he received his JD from Yale Law School and his BA from Swarthmore College.