Alexandria, Va. — Tara J. Schellhorn of Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, LLP (Morristown, N.J.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2011, Schellhorn has co-chaired ABI’s Young and New Members Committee and Emerging Industries and Technology Committee, serves as a contributing editor of the ABI Journal, overseeing its “Building Blocks” column, and was named to ABI’s “40 Under 40” 2019 class of honorees, for which she later served as a member of the “40 Under 40” Program’s Steering Committee. She also has spoken at ABI events on key restructuring issues.
Schellhorn is a partner with Riker Danzig in the firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring, including the representation of debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, financial institutions, secured lenders, unsecured creditors and other parties in interest in complex chapter 11 cases. She also has experience in bankruptcy litigation, including prosecuting and defending nondischargeability, preference and other avoidance actions. In addition, Schellhorn has significant experience representing clients on complex corporate lending issues, including the representation of indenture trustees in default and bankruptcy situations. Her practice also includes civil litigation in both federal and state courts.
Schellhorn currently serves as Secretary of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s (IWIRC’s) New Jersey Network, for which she formerly served as co-chair. She also served as Finance director on the International Board in 2024. In 2021, IWIRC honored her with the prestigious Melnick Award for exceptional contributions by an IWIRC member. Schellhorn is vice chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to joining Riker Danzig, she clerked for Hon. Raymond T. Lyons in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Schellhorn is an editorial board member for Thomson Reuters’ 2024 book Strategic Alternatives For and Against Distressed Businesses. She received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Gettysburg College in 2004, and her J.D. magna cum laude from Widener University School of Law in 2007, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Widener Law Journal and received the Widener Law Journal Award for Distinguished Legal Scholarship. In addition, she received a 2007 ABI Medal of Excellence for outstanding performance in her bankruptcy coursework.
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.abi.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.
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