Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Sonia Colón of Ferraiuoli LLC (Orlando, Fla.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2014, Colón is a member of ABI’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, serves on the advisory boards of the Caribbean Insolvency Symposium and Stetson Paskay Bankruptcy Seminar, and has written and spoken at ABI events on key bankruptcy topics. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Colón is a Capital Member of Ferraiuoli LLC, and chairs its Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. She also heads Ferraiuoli’s Florida office, serving business clients expanding their operations to Florida in the areas of corporate law, real estate and regulatory matters. For 22 years, Colón has focused her practice on insolvency-related matters, including workouts, debt-restructurings and complex commercial litigation in which she represents various parties, including institutional lenders, investors, equityholders, and bonding and insurance companies in all aspects of bankruptcy and workouts. She also has represented clients in matters related to Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis, including the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), enacted on June 30, 2016. Colón has represented clients in numerous bankruptcy cases, including out-of-court restructurings and all aspects of complex bankruptcy litigation, including dischargeability, fraudulent transfers, preference actions, super-priority lending, cramdowns and valuations, and she has represented creditors’ committees, secured creditors and debtors in chapter 11 cases. She also advises clients on insolvency-related transactions, including workouts, restructurings of financial transactions and tracing of funds, fraudulent-conveyance actions, acquiring bankruptcy assets, and securing diverse types of financing agreements during a bankruptcy case. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1997 and her B.S. in foreign service cum laude from Georgetown University in 1994.
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 nearly 10,000 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.