Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Christopher A. Ward of Polsinelli (Wilmington, Del.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2003, Ward is the chair and education director of the ABI Technology & IP Committee, a member of the Mid-Atlantic ABI Endowment Committee and a co-author of ABI’s The Chief Restructuring Officers Guide to Bankruptcy: Views from Leading Insolvency Professionals. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
As co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring practice and managing shareholder of Polsinelli’s Delaware office, Ward routinely tackles financial restructurings and litigation. He has significant experience in representing chapter 11 debtors and unsecured creditors’ committees, which allows him to provide his clients with compressive insight into both sides of the restructuring industry. Ward is ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, (Delaware), has been selected for inclusion in Delaware Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Delaware Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in 2012. He received his B.A. from Moravian College in 1995 and his J.D. cum laude from Widener University School of Law in 1999.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.
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