Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Bankruptcy Judge Robert D. Drain (S.D.N.Y.; White Plains) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2000, Judge Drain has been a judicial chair of ABI’s New York City Bankruptcy conference and a frequent speaker at ABI events. He also served on an advisory committee for ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Judge Drain was appointed as a Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in May 2002. Prior to his appointment, he was a partner in the bankruptcy department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he represented debtors, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, official and unofficial creditors' committees, and buyers of distressed businesses and distressed debt in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings and bankruptcy-related litigation. Judge Drain was also actively involved in several transnational insolvency matters. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the International Insolvency Institute, and is a past member and secretary of the Bankruptcy and Reorganization Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. An adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law, he has lectured and written on numerous bankruptcy-related topics. Judge Drain received his B.A. cum laude from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for three years.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.
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