Contact: John Hartgen
(703) 739-0800
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size='3'>LORIE R. BEERS ELECTED TO ABI’S BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
size='3'>April 10, 2009, Alexandria, Va. —
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American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>Lorie R. Beers of KPMG
Corporate Finance LLP (
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York
ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2002 and a
contributing author to the ABI
Journal, Beers helped to develop ABI’s
annual Complex Financial Restructuring Program. She received
ABI’s Annual Service Award for her work on the program. She will
serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of
Directors.
Beers is a managing
partner with KPMG Corporate Finance LLC in
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York, where she serves as
the managing director of the Special Situations Advisory Group and is
responsible for providing both in- and out-of-court M&A, corporate
finance and restructuring advisory services to underperforming
companies, debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees,
equity-holders and other constituents. She has more than 19 years of
corporate restructuring and insolvency experience and has represented
clients in the fields of apparel, building materials, business services,
food and beverage, and gaming and real estate, among others. Beers is
also a member of the Turnaround Management Association. She received her
B.A. from
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The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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