Hon. Christopher S. Sontchi
Hon. Christopher S. Sontchi is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Delaware in Wilmington, initially appointed in 2006, and a professional neutral with Delaware ADR in Hockessin, Del. He also served a term as the court?s Chief Judge. Judge Sontchi was recently appointed as an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. He is a frequent speaker in the U.S. and abroad on issues relating to corporate reorganizations, and he has been a Lecturer in Law at The University of Chicago Law School. In addition, he has taught corporate bankruptcy to international judges through the auspices of the World Bank and INSOL International. Judge Sontchi is a member of the International Insolvency Institute, Judicial Insolvency Network, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, ABI and INSOL International. He was recently appointed to the International Advisory Council of the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative and the Founders? Committee of The University of Chicago Law School?s Center on Law and Finance. Judge Sontchi has testified before Congress on the safe harbors for financial contracts, and has published articles on creditors? committees, valuation, asset sales and safe harbors. Prior to his appointment, he was in private practice, representing a wide variety of nationally based enterprises with diverse interests in most of the larger chapter 11 reorganization proceedings filed in Delaware. Judge Sontchi served on the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11?s Financial Contracts, Derivatives and Safe Harbors Committee and testified on safe harbors for financial contracts before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Following law school, Judge Sontchi clerked for Hon. Joseph T. Walsh in the Delaware Supreme Court. He received his B.A. Phi Beta Kappa with distinction in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Hon. Christopher S. Sontchi