Jayant Deepak Rao, Esq.
Jay D. Rao joined the University of California, Berkeley Law Visiting Scholars Program in Berkeley, Calif., to advance a proposal relating to the intersection of equitable subordination and the modern bankruptcy claims market. He is currently working on a paper entitled “Inequitable Subordination: Distressing Distressed Claims Purchasers by Propagating Subordination Benefit Elimination Theory,” which seeks to examine the current state of the law while introducing the concepts of the “subordination benefit,” “subordination benefit elimination theory” and “limited subordination benefit theory.” Previously, Mr. Rao was an adjunct professor teaching a litigation drafting workshop at North Texas at Dallas College of Law and a lecturer teaching transactional drafting at Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas, the only public law school in Dallas. Additionally, on a volunteer basis, he taught English as a second language through the Richardson Adult Literacy Center and social studies through the Aberg Center for Literacy’s high school equivalency program. Mr. Rao obtained legal training in New York as a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and as a corporate associate within the restructuring practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he served as a Research Fellow for the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 under the chair of the Distribution Issues Advisory Committee. Additionally, he received training from Credit Suisse’s corporate banking group, the president of buy-side institution CSG Investments, and in-house counsel at IHS Markit. While residing in New York, he volunteered on the board of governors of the Columbia University Club, the board of directors of the Columbia Law<br>School Association and the board of directors of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. Mr. Rao Jay received his B.B.A. in finance from The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, where he served as a research assistant, an officer and team leader of the Global Investment Group, and vice president of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He received his J.D. from Columbia<br>Law School, where he served as a research and teaching assistant and an editorial board member of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, and was an instructor at Columbia Law’s High School Law Institute.