Mr. Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena

Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena is a partner with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP in Wilmington, Del., and a member of its Corporate, Bankruptcy, Complex Business & Commercial Litigation, Digital Asset, and Ukraine Conflict Response Practices. He has advised clients on corporate and commercial litigation, insolvency, distressed M&A,compliance, corporate law and entity formation, corporate governance,commercial transactions, cyber law, regulatory actions and cross-border issues. Mr. Zahralddin-Aravena represents clients in all aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring and has experience in international commercial law issues, including cross-border insolvency, federal bankruptcy court matters, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and receiverships. He also has worked for two decades with early-stage companies and venture capitalists and private venture funds as both a transactional lawyer and corporate litigator. He has assisted businesses in starting, selling or buying a business, and dealing with employees and contracts, among other operational issues, and has worked with trade creditors, bondholders, labor unions and other key stakeholders in insolvency matters. Mr. Zahralddin-Aravena is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow. He has been recognized as a Philadelphia Inquirer Influencer of Law, and the Philadelphia Business Journal awarded him both ?Best of the Bar? and ?Top Minority Business Leader? in 2020. Mr. Zahralddin-Aravena received his B.S. in architecture from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from Widener University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor for its law review and was published as a law student. In addition, he received his LL.M in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center.