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JEFFREY N. POMERANTZ ELECTED TO TWO-YEAR TERM
AS ABI’S VICE PRESIDENT-EDUCATION
April 15, 2011, Alexandria, Va. — The American
Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Jeffrey N.
Pomerantz of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (Los
Angeles) has been elected by the ABI Board of Directors to serve a
two-year term as ABI’s Vice President-Education. Pomerantz
succeeds James T. Markus of Markus Williams Young & Zimmerman LLC
(Denver), who was elected by the Board to serve as ABI’s
President-Elect. An ABI member since 2000, Pomerantz is a member of
ABI’s Executive Committee and has served as a co‑chair of
ABI’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference and Bankruptcy Battleground
West conference.
Pomerantz is a partner at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, where
his practice includes representing companies and creditors’
committees in complex in‑ and out‑of‑court financial
restructurings and is generally focused on middle‑market companies
with annual revenues ranging from $25 million ‑ $300 million. He
is the author of “The Bare Necessities of Critical Vendor
Motions—It’s a Jungle Out There,” 13 Journal of
Bankruptcy Law & Practice (2004), and has lectured or been a
panelist for ABI, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, Financial Lawyers
Conference and Credit Managers Association. Pomerantz received his
undergraduate degree Phi Beta Kappa and his J.D. from New York
University, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.
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