Christopher Mirick's practice focuses on the areas of business reorganizations and debtors' and creditors' rights. He has represented debtors, creditors, acquirers, landlords, and equity holders, both in and out of court, across a wide array of industries, including energy, telecommunications, healthcare, retail clothing, retail home goods, home décor, groceries, graphics arts and printing supplies, computer software, Internet security, and biotechnology research and development. In addition, Christopher has represented private equity clients in connection with acquiring, selling, and reorganizing both domestic and international portfolio companies, and mezzanine lenders and private equity investors in defending fraudulent-transfer and breach-of-duty claims asserted in connection with companies to which they have extended credit or invested equity.

Christopher is the co-author, with Professor Lynn M. LoPucki of UCLA Law School and Harvard Law School, of Strategies For Creditors In Bankruptcy Proceedings (Aspen Publishers, 5th Ed., 2007).

The Best Lawyers in America has selected Christopher as a leading lawyer in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights for three consecutive years.  Turnarounds & Workouts named him one of the Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers for 2007 and, in both 2005 and 2006, he was named one of the Massachusetts Rising Stars by Law & Politics and Boston Magazine.

Christopher served as the co-chair of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the Boston Bar Association from 2004 to 2006.  From 2002 to 2004, he was co-chair of the Pro Bono Committee of the Bankruptcy Law Section, and in 2003 he received a Special Achievement Award from the Bankruptcy Law Section in recognition of his pro bono efforts.

Christopher received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Amherst College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Massachusetts and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.