Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Dr. Annerose Tashiro of Schultze & Braun GmbH (Achern, Germany) has been named to a two-year term as ABI Vice President-International Affairs. An ABI member since 2005 and a member of the ABI Board of Directors, Tashiro is on the advisory committee of ABI’s International Insolvency & Restructuring Symposium, and has been a frequent speaker at ABI programs, an author of numerous articles for the ABI Journal and an active member of ABI’s Technology and Intellectual Property and International Committees.
Tashiro is a partner with Schultze & Braun GmbH in Achern, Germany, and head of its International Business Recovery/Cross-Border Restructuring and Insolvencies group. She has acted domestically and internationally for many companies involved in debt restructuring and turnarounds in several high-profile German insolvencies, including acting as special counsel on U.S. chapter 7 and 11 proceedings and distressed M&A. Dr. Tashiro is the joint chief editor of turnaround magazine Eurofenix and a regular contributor to International Corporate Rescue. She is also a member of INSOL, the German-Japanese Business Council, IWIRC Europe, the International Insolvency Institute and the Japanese Association for Turnaround Professionals. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Düsseldorf and Keio University in Tokyo. The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://go.abi.org/board.
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