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class='bodyhead1'>CORINNE BALL ELECTED TO ABI’S BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
May 24, 2010,
Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)
announces that Corinne Ball of Jones Day (New York) has been
elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since
1997 and a contributing author to the ABI Law Review, Ball is on the Advisory Board for
ABI’s New York City Bankruptcy Conference. She is a frequent
speaker at ABI events and is also a director for the American College of
Bankruptcy. She will serve a term of three
years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Ball has 30 years of experience
in business finance and restructuring, with a focus on complex corporate
reorganizations and distressed acquisitions, both court-supervised and
extra judicial, including matters involving multijurisdictional and
cross-border enterprises. She is co-head of the Jones Day New York
Office's Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice and leader
of the firm's global restructuring practice. Corinne led a team of
attorneys representing Chrysler LLC in connection with its successful
chapter 11 reorganization, which won the Investment Dealers'
Digest “Deal of the Year” Award for 2009. Corinne
won the Turnaround Management Association's 'International Turnaround
Company of the Year' Award, and was named 'Dealmaker of the Year' by the
American Lawyer and one of 'The Decade's Most Influential
Lawyers' by the National Law Journal. She received her B.A. from
Williams College and her J.D. from the George Washington
University.
The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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