Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 1994, Kapila is the co-chair of ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Conference, a contributing author to ABI’s Fraud and Forensics: Piercing Through the Deception in a Commercial Fraud Case, a regular speaker at ABI events and an active member in the ABI Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Kapila is a founding partner of KapilaMukamal, LLP (formerly Kapila & Company). For over 20 years, he has concentrated his efforts in the areas insolvency, fiduciary and creditors’ rights matters. He represents other bankruptcy trustees, debtors and both secured and unsecured creditors in and out of bankruptcy court. Kapila is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, and has been named one of the Power Leaders in Law and Accounting by the South Florida Business Journal and Best Trustee by Daily Business Review’s Best of 2012. He has also been a Key Partners Award Honoree by the South Florida Business Journal. He received his M.B.A. from the Cranfield School of Management Studies in England.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.
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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than 12,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.